Sample Quiz I

History 151

 

Estimated time to complete: 30 minutes. The quiz will take place at the beginning of class on Thursday, February 27.

 

I. In the quiz you’ll be given two blank maps corresponding to the boundaries and major cities of Europe in about 1550 and Europe in 1763.  With each map will be a list of states, principalities, and cities and you’ll be asked to indicate their geographic location on the map. Here is the list for Europe around 1550. You’ll be asked to indicate 15 of the items.  You’ll get additional credit for identifying any off the Extra Credit items.

 

  1. Aragon
  2. Austria
  3. Bavaria
  4. Bohemia
  5. Brandenburg
  6. Castile
  7. France
  8. Holy Roman Empire
  9. Hungary
  10. Netherlands
  11. Ottoman Empire
  12. Papal States
  13. Portugal
  14. Saxony
  15. Switzerland
  16. Tuscany
  17. Constantinople
  18. Prague
  19. Vienna
  20. Warsaw
  21. Rome
  22. Lisbon
  23. London
  24. Amsterdam

 

Extra Credit:

Moscow

Stockholm

Edinburgh

Budapest

 

 

There are two maps in Speilvogel’s that you should study: all but the extra credit items are displayed on these two maps.  If you have an earlier edition of Spielvogel, you should check with a friend to find equivalent maps.

 

Map 13.1 The Empire of Charles V, page 346 in Spielvogel, 5th edition.

 

Map 18.1 Europe in 1763, page 496 in Spielvogel, 5th edition.

 

II. Briefly identify and explain the historical significance of one of the following items. [Examples only]

 

John Cabot

 

the French Fronde

Table of Ranks

Emile

Francis Bacon

Catherine the Great

Margaret Cavendish

Adam Smith

Junkers

Identify

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Historical Significance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

III. Indicate by number the chronological order of the following and give APPROXIMATE dates (1 being the earliest event and 7 being the most recent event. Credit will be given for placement in the proper decade (e.g.,1580s would be correct for the defeat of the Spanish Armada that attacked England.) [The following are examples only.]

 

The Execution of Louis XVI of France

 

Peter the Great begins rule in Russia

 

Las Casas publishes his In Defense of Indians

 

Louis XIV begins his personal reign in France

 

Mary Wollstonecraft publishes her Vindication of the Rights of Woman

 

Galeleo discovers the moons of Jupiter

 

Montequieu publishes his The Spirit of the Laws

 

The beginning of the English Civil War

 

France loses its territory in India