Quiz

H 114 Western Civilization since 1555       July 31, 2015            Dr. Thomas A. Mason

Review Sheet 1: for Quiz 1.                        Section 22872, September 14.

                                                                              Section 23764, September 9.

The quiz will take the form of identifications, of which you will choose any six out of nine options. Instructions will ask you to identify, give approximate date or span of dates, and show the historical significance of any six out of the nine options. You will be asked to develop your answer in a paragraph (several substantial sentences) on each of the six. In your answers, provide details on the what, who, where, when (dates), how, and why of the subject you are identifying. 16 2/3 % each; about twelve minutes each. Many (but not all) of the key terms listed below are also key terms shown in boldface type in the text and listed in the glossary—pages G-1–G-7 in the back of your textbook (Mark Kishlansky et al., Civilization in the West)—which provides short definitions of those key terms. Take a look at those key terms to get an idea of what to expect.

Please note:

• You are welcome to take quizzes and examinations early (give me advance notice so I can have the quiz or examination made up early).
• No more than one late assignment (book review / essay) or makeup quiz / examination will be allowed to any student.

Quiz 1 will cover chapters 14–15 in your textbook. All nine “key terms” in the left column below will be identification options on Quiz 1. You will choose to write on any six out of the nine “key terms” on this Review Sheet 1 and Quiz 1. “Background” items in the right column are for your information only, for use in developing an answer, but will not be potential identification options on the quiz.

d.: died                                                                 ca.: circa: Latin: about / approximately

Definitions within quotation marks are from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed. (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 2003). A date following a word or term is the date of the earliest recorded use of that word or term in English.

Chapter 14: Europe at War, 1555–1648

Key terms                                                          Background

French Wars of Religion, 1562–1598              Huguenots

                                                                              Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, 1572

Henry IV, 1553–1610, king of Navarre          politiques

      (1572–1610); first Bourbon                        Gallicanism

      king of France (1589–1610)                       ultramontanism (ca. 1618)

                                                                              Edict of Nantes, 1598

Philip II, 1527–1598, king of Naples, Sicily,   El Escorial (Spanish: gridiron: grate on

      and Spain (1556–1598) and, as Philip I,         which martyrs—notably Saint Lawrence

      king of England (1554–1558) and king           —were burned);

      of Portugal (1580–1598) (Habsburg)             the palace was built 1563–1584

Revolt of the Netherlands /                              William of Orange (William the Silent),

      Eighty Years’ War, 1566–1648                        1533–1584, stadtholder of the

                                                                                    Netherlands (1572–1584)

                                                                              insolvencies / sovereign debt defaults of

                                                                                    Spain: 1557, 1575, 1576, 1607, 1627, 1647

                                                                              Twelve Years’ Truce, 1609–1621

Spanish Armada, 1588

Thirty Years’ War, 1618–1648                        Ferdinand II, 1578–1637, emperor (1619–

                                                                                    1637), king of Bohemia (1617–1637) and

                                                                                    of Hungary (1618–1637) (Habsburg)

                                                                              Bohemian Period, 1618–1625

                                                                                    Second Defenestration of Prague, 1618

                                                                                    Frederick the Winter King, 1596–1632,

                                                                                          king of Bohemia (1619–1620),

                                                                                          elector palatine (1610–1620) as

                                                                                          Frederick V

                                                                                    Battle of the White Mountain, 1620

                                                                              Danish Period, 1625–1629

                                                                                    Christian IV, 1577–1648, king of

                                                                                          Denmark and Norway (1588–1648)

                                                                                          (Oldenburg)

                                                                                    Albrecht von Wallenstein, 1583–1634

                                                                                    insolvencies of Spain, 1627 and 1647, and

                                                                                          France, 1648

                                                                              Swedish Period, 1630–1635

                                                                                    Gustavus II (Gustavus Adolphus), 1594–

                                                                                          1632, king of Sweden (1611–1632)

                                                                                          (Vasa)

                                                                                    Sack of Magdeburg, 1631

                                                                                    Battle of Leipzig or Breitenfeld, 1631

                                                                                    Battle of Lützen, 1632

                                                                              Swedish-French Period, 1635–1648

                                                                              balance of power (1701): an alliance system

                                                                                    intended to prevent any one state from

                                                                                    dominating others

                                                                              Peace of Westphalia, 1648: recognized

                                                                                    France as the most powerful country in

                                                                                    Europe

                                                                              status quo ante bellum: New Latin:

                                                                                    “the state existing before the war”

Chapter 15: The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1650

Price Revolution, ca. 1500–ca. 1600               insolvencies / sovereign debt defaults of

                                                                                    Spain, 1557, 1575, 1576; of France, 1557

enclosure                                                             Thomas More, 1478–1535, lord chancellor

                                                                                    of England (1529–1532); canonized

                                                                                    1935; Utopia (Louvain, Spanish

                                                                                    Netherlands,             1516, New Latin;

                                                                                    translated into Early Modern English,

                                                                                    London, 1551)

German Peasants’ War, 1524–1526               Zwölf Artikel der Bauernschaft in

                                                                                    Schwaben ([Speyer], 1525, German:

                                                                                    Twelve Articles of the Peasants of Swabia)

                                                                              Martin Luther, Wider die räuberischen und

                                                                                    mörderischen Rotten der Bauern (Erfurt,

                                                                                    1525, German: Against the Murderous,

                                                                                    Thieving Hordes of Peasants)

                                                                              Thomas Münzer