HISTORY 120
FALL SEMESTER, 2008
PROFESSOR DOUGLASS TABER
OFFICE:  CONNELL 242
OFFICE HOURS:  MWF, 2:00-3:30; TR, 3:30-4:00 (AND BY APPOINTMENT)

SECTIONS 6 (TR, 11:00-12:15) AND 8 (TR, 2:00-3:15)
CONNELL HALL, 229

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STUDY GUIDE FOR THE FINAL EXAM



I.  WORKING GUIDES
    A.  SYLLABUS
    B.  GUIDE TO TAKING NOTES ON THE READINGS
    C.  INSTRUCTIONS FOR DOING THE SUMMARY PAPERS
            1.  GENERAL
            2.  DOCUMENTATION
            3.  QUOTING
            4.  GRAMMAR
            5.  KILLER MISTAKES--DEATH PENALTY!  
            5.  SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR A BETTER PAPER

    A SIMPLIFIED TIMELINE TO HELP YOU KEEP THINGS STRAIGHT

    A SAMPLE ID (IDENTIFICATION)

II.  READING GUIDES
        A,  MENCIUS
        B.  RULE OF ST. BENEDICT
        C.  THE QUR'AN
                [QUR'AN TEXT]
        D.  MACHIAVELLI, THE PRINCE
        E.  WIESEL, NIGHT


III.  MAPS AND MAP GUIDES
    A.   THE FIRST LIST OF TESTABLE MAP ITEMS
            1.  MAPS WITH ITEMS LOCATED
            2.  BLANK MAPS FOR PRACTICE

          HOW (AND HOW NOT!)  TO INDICATE MAP ITEMS ON A MAP TEST


IV.  LECTURE IMAGES
        A.  PREHISTORY
        B.  THE AGRICULTURAL AND URBAN REVOLUTIONS

V.  INDIA AND CHINA
        1.  SOME BASIC HINDU AND BUDDHIST CONCEPTS
        2.  CHINA:  LEGALISM, A PHILOSOPHY OPPOSED TO CONFUCIANISM
        3.  CHINA:  QIN SHIH HUANGTI AS HE WANTED TO BE REMEMBERED

VI.  GREECE
        1.  THE GREEK POLIS:  HOPLITES, PHALANX, AND THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY
        2.  ALEXANDER THE GREAT:  LAST PLANS
        3.  GREEK ART AND THOUGHT
                a.  SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES
                    a'.  MORE GENERALITIES
                b.  GREEK POTTERY
                c.  GREEK SCULPTURE
                d.  AESCHYLUS, ORESTEIA
                e.  EXCERPTS FROM THE ODYSSEY

VII.  ROME
        1.  AUGUSTUS AS VIEWED BY A ROMAN HISTORIAN
        2.  AUGUSTUS AS HE WANTED TO BE REMEMBERED
        3.  DIOCLETIAN'S ECONOMIC REFORMS
        4.  DIOCLETIAN'S PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANITY
        5.  CHRISTIANITY AND CLASSICAL THOUGHT
                a)  TERTULLIAN CONDEMNS GREEK PHILOSOPHY
                b)  ST. AUGUSTINE
        6.  ROMAN THOUGHT, ART, AND ARCHITECTURE
                a)  STOICISM AND HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY
                b)   CICERO, THE DREAM OF SCIPIO
                c)  VERGIL, THE AENEID -- EXCERPTS
                d)  ROMAN SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE

VIII.  THE GERMANIC INVASIONS AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
            A.  ROMAN SOPHISTICATION VS. "THE GERMANIC"
            B.  CHARLEMAGNE:  CHARACTER ACCORDING TO A CONTEMPORARY
            C.  CHARLEMAGNE PROMOTING EDUCATION
            D.  CHARLEMAGNE ON CHRISTIANIZING THE SAXONS

IX.  MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
            A.  KING HENRY II ESTABLISHES THE GRAND JURY
            B.  KING HENRY II AND THE WRIT
            C.  MAGNA CARTA

X.  THE REFORMATION:  MARTIN LUTHER

XI.  17TH-CENTURY GOVERNMENT
            A.  ENGLAND
                    1.  JAMES I ON DIVINE RIGHT MONARCHY
                    2.  THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION:  THE BILL OF RIGHTS
                    3.  JOHN LOCKE, SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT
            B.  FRANCE
                    1.  LOUIS XIV JUDGED BY A CONTEMPORARY
                    2.  LOUIS XIV REVOKES THE EDICT OF NANTES, 1685
                    3.  COMPLAINTS AGAINST LOUIS XIV
                    4.  LOUIS XIV, ABSOLUTE, DIVINE RIGHT MONARCH
                    5.  BISHOP BOSSUET:  DEFENDER OF DIVINE RIGHT MONARCHY

XII.  THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION:  NEWTON

XIII.  THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
        A.  NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIBERALISM
        B.  NATIONALISM
        C.  THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
                a)  LIVING CONDITIONS  
                b)  WORKING CONDITIONS

XIV.  THE "NEW IMPERIALISM"
        A.  THE BERLIN CONGRESS (1884-5)
        B.  A FILL-IN-THE-BLANK TREATY
        C.  RUDYARD KIPLING, "THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN"
        D.  KING LEOPOLD II OF BELGIUM AND THE CONGO

XV.  THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
        A.  WORLD WAR I (1914-1918)
                1.  THE HORRORS OF TRENCH WARFARE
        B.  HITLER AND WORLD WAR II 
                1.  TOTALITARIANISM
                2.  HITLER'S ANTI-SEMITISM
                3.  THE NUREMBERG LAWS OF 1935
                4.  THE HOLOCAUST