Make-Up Essays for grade
Want to make up a low grade? Bring up a grade to a higher grade?
Use the critical thinking/analysis questions for that topic
Due Friday Dec 22, 2017
Questions:
Choose 1 in each part - Short Answer - 1 paragraph each
Middle Ages Questions Part 1
1. Identify and explain the significance of the Franks and Muslims.
2. Describe how each of the following traditions influenced Charlemagne’s rule: Roman, German, Christian.
3. Identify the responsibilities of the peasant toward the lord, and of the lord toward the peasant. 4. Describe three ways the Church shaped medieval life.
5. List three functions performed by monks and nuns during medieval times.
6. List three new technologies or improvements that led to an agricultural revolution in Western Europe.
7. List five economic or social changes that resulted from the growth of trade in the Middle Ages.
Middle Ages Questions Part 2
1. Identify three of the following and tell how they increased their royal power: William the Conqueror, Henry II, the Capetians, Philip Augustus, Louis IX.
2. List three ideas about government and law that emerged in England which have influenced the modern world. Explain how they did this.
3. Identify the Concordat of Worms and tell what issues it addressed.
4. List three long-term effects of the Crusades.
5. Give two reasons why a revival of learning occurred in the High Middle Ages.
6. Compare the architecture of Gothic and Romanesque churches.
7. List five reasons why the late Middle Ages was a time of decline.
Rome Questions
Renaissance and Reformation Questions
Want to make up a low grade? Bring up a grade to a higher grade?
- If the grade is a 50 or below: 2 Essays - 5 paragraphs each - You’ll get a passing grade ~70%
- If the grade is above 50: 1 Essay - 5 paragraphs - bump up a letter grade
Use the critical thinking/analysis questions for that topic
Due Friday Dec 22, 2017
Questions:
Choose 1 in each part - Short Answer - 1 paragraph each
Middle Ages Questions Part 1
1. Identify and explain the significance of the Franks and Muslims.
2. Describe how each of the following traditions influenced Charlemagne’s rule: Roman, German, Christian.
3. Identify the responsibilities of the peasant toward the lord, and of the lord toward the peasant. 4. Describe three ways the Church shaped medieval life.
5. List three functions performed by monks and nuns during medieval times.
6. List three new technologies or improvements that led to an agricultural revolution in Western Europe.
7. List five economic or social changes that resulted from the growth of trade in the Middle Ages.
Middle Ages Questions Part 2
1. Identify three of the following and tell how they increased their royal power: William the Conqueror, Henry II, the Capetians, Philip Augustus, Louis IX.
2. List three ideas about government and law that emerged in England which have influenced the modern world. Explain how they did this.
3. Identify the Concordat of Worms and tell what issues it addressed.
4. List three long-term effects of the Crusades.
5. Give two reasons why a revival of learning occurred in the High Middle Ages.
6. Compare the architecture of Gothic and Romanesque churches.
7. List five reasons why the late Middle Ages was a time of decline.
Rome Questions
- What were the Characteristics of Roman Architecture
- Describe how the Romans provided their cities with water
- Factors to the fall of Rome were
- Describe two positive and two negative ways that winning an empire affected Rome.
- Explain how the policies of Augustus improved social and economic conditions in the Roman Empire.
- Explain how Roman art and literature blended different traditions.
- Describe how the basic teachings of Jesus combined Jewish traditions with new beliefs.
- Describe two of Constantine’s actions that had long-lasting effects on Europe.
- Explain the military, political, and social reasons for the “fall “of Rome.
Renaissance and Reformation Questions
- List three ways the Renaissance differed from the Middle Ages.
- Choose one writer or artist from the Italian Renaissance and describe how Renaissance ideas influenced his or her work.
- Identify one of the following and describe how they contributed to the Renaissance in northern Europe: Dürer, Bruegel, Rubens, Sir Thomas More, the van Eycks, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Rabelais.
- Explain why the development of printing is described as a “revolution.”
- List three ways the Catholic Church responded to the Protestant Reformation.
- Explain why the theory of Copernicus was so strongly opposed by the Church and scholars.
- Compare the scientific method to the traditional way of seeking knowledge. How were they different?
- Why was economic prosperity a necessary precondition for the Renaissance?
- How did the new scientific method threaten the Catholic Church?
- What advances in medicine were made during the Renaissance and Reformation?
- Compare the subjects of the paintings of the Italian Renaissance with those of the northern Renaissance. How are they different?
- What contributed to the birth of the Renaissance in Italy?