Western Civilization II

Exam I Study Guide

Spring, 2008

This study guide is designed to help you with the upcoming midterm on 24 January. While this study guide is short answer, the midterm will be multiple choice.

If you complete this guide accurately and study it well, you will find the exam an enjoyable exercise. (Really!)

  1. Name the man who first proposed the heliocentric (i.e. the earth revolves around the sun) view of the solar system.
  2. Name the book Copernicus wrote to describe his new theory.
  3. Name the astronomer who lost his nose in a college brawl.
  4. Name the man who described the laws of planetary motion.
  5. Name the man who invented calculus and described the universal laws of motion.
  6. Name the man who determined that a object's motion is independent of its mass.
  7. Name the lower house of the British Parliament.
  8. Name the upper house of the British Parliament.
  9. Which British political party supported royal authority and power?
  10. Which British political party supported the monarchy but not absolute rule by the monarch?
  11. Who was the King deposed in the Glorious Revolution?
  12. What monarch(s) were invited to rule England in the Glorious Revolution?
  13. What is the name of the doctrine that subordinates all other elements of a country’s power structure to the crown?
  14. What is the name of the Act by which England, Scotland, and Ireland were untied into Great Britain?
  15. What family inherited the British throne after the death of Anne in 1715?
  16. Who was George I's Prime Minister?
  17. Who was the British Prime Minister during the 7 Years' War?
  18. Who was the British monarch during the American Revolutionary War?
  19. What was the name of the French governing body called in 1789 to solve the French financial crisis?
  20. What French king called this assembly?
  21. Which Prussian ruler invaded Austria, sparking the War of the Austrian Succession?
  22. What dynasty ruled Prussia?
  23. 2 Russian rulers received the title "The Great." Peter I was one of them. Name the other.
  24. What institution was created to stabilize English finances?
  25. What was the term for a social gathering of notable figures held in a private home?
  26. What is the other name for the Age of Enlightenment?
  27. What is the term for the influential thinkers of the Enlightenment?
  28. Which French philosopher advocated the doubting of everything until it can be proved?
  29. What is the term for the application of reason to all things?
  30. Who wrote Candide?
  31. What is the group that believed in a single God who created the universe but does not intervene in it?
  32. Which philosopher stated the theories of the separation of powers and checks and balances?

    You'll find these quotes on the main page for the course.
  33. Name the person who said the following: "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
  34. Name the person who said the following: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
  35. Name the person who said the following: "A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."
  36. Name the person who gave the following definition of chronological snobbery: "the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to your own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited."