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Liberty UniversityDigitalCommons@LibertyUniversityFaculty Publications and Presentations Helms School of Government2003Robin W. Winks: A History of Civilization, 9ed.Study GuideSteven Alan SamsonLiberty University, ssamson@liberty.eduFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/gov_fac_pubsPart of the Other Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons, Political Science Commons, and thePublic Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Helms School of Government at DigitalCommons@Liberty University. It has beenaccepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications and Presentations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Liberty University. For moreinformation, please contact scholarlycommunication@liberty.edu.Recommended CitationSamson, Steven Alan, "Robin W. Winks: A History of Civilization, 9ed. Study Guide" (2003). Faculty Publications and Presentations.Paper 187.http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/gov_fac_pubs/187ROBIN W. WINKS:  A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION, 9ed STUDY GUIDE, 1999-2003 Steven Alan Samson  Chapter 1:  The First Civilizations earliest system of writing       earliest Sumerian governments purpose of the ziggurat       achievements of Babylonian-Assyrian culture what Egyptian and Mesopotamian societies had in common Code of Hammurabi reasons for fall of the Old Kingdom of Egypt       character of Egyptian society origin of the modern alphabet                                 development of history writing warnings of the Hebrew prophets                      influences on Mycenaean culture cuneiform          ka      women in ancient Egypt Mesopotamian rulers       hydraulic societies Chapter 2:  The Greeks government in the poleis of early Greece         Lycurgus reforms of Solon   Cleisthenes           Pericles Cleon        Alcibiades     slavery in Greek society Nicias             Themistocles     treasury of the Delian League Athens vs. Sparta                  Peloponnesian War     Athenian campaign in Sicily Philip II and the rise of Macedon                      conquests of Alexander the Great Alexander’s successor(s)                Oedipus                                         Aeschylus Sophocles                                      Euripides                                    Aristophanes Thucydides                                   Pythagoras                                         Socrates Plato and The Republic                 Pisistratus                                              hubris Chapter 3:  The Romans physical geography of Italy             theories of the decline of the Roman Empire executive power in the early Roman Republic           Tacitus political and social classes in the early Roman Republic          Cicero Punic Wars                Hannibal                   Scipio Africanus Latifundia                 Marius             Pompey the Great Spartacus                 Jugurtha     Mithridates Julius Caesar                 Crassus                                          Lepidus Octavian                                         Mark Antony   First and Second Triumvirates Arminius             limits of Roman Empire                      Hadrian’s Wall Rhine River                       Nero and his successors       end of the Pax Romana tetrarchy                                 Septimius Severus                                 Diocletian Chapter 4:  Judaism and Christianity explanations for the Roman failure to develop the applied sciences what such religious cults as those of Isis, Cybele, and Mithra had in common philosophies such as Stoicism, Epicureanism, Neoplatonism Dead Sea Scrolls   Edict of Milan         Petrine theory Nicene Creed           Caesaropapism                           Leo the Great Arius                                               Athanasius                  St. Benedict of Nursia St. Jerome                                    St. Augustine                                     Pelagius Manichaeanism             Edict of Milan                            Nicene Creed Petrine theory                             Caesaropapism                           Leo the Great The Donatists                                  Chalcedon     the regular and secular clergy The City of God                 influence of Greek thought on Jews       cult of Mithra Chapter 5:  The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe early Middle Ages         Alaric          Odovacar Theodoric          Clovis           Valens Avars, Bulgars, Magyars       Romulus Augustulus                             Poitiers  end of the Roman Empire in the West         mayors of the palace Pepin the Short        Justinian   Donation of Pepin Le Chanson de Roland    Charlemagne   Strasbourg Oaths reasons for expansion of Norsemen and where they settled                     Otto I gefolge or comitatis        precarium    beneficium or fief feudalism       manorialism       Boethius obligations of the lord-vassal relationship                  immunity Consolation of Philosophy  Venerable Bede     Isidore of Seville Alcuin of York         Beowulf   Gregory the Great slavery      tenant-in-chief          rois faineants survival of the Latin language                   Ostrogoths, Franks, and Visigoths Chapter 6:  Byzantium and Islam Justinian                                                       Code, Digest, Institutes, and Novels Constantinople, 1204                                                           Byzantine diplomacy economic life of the Byzantine Empire                   caesaropapism Iconclastic Controversy                  schism of 1054                             Theophilus Nomisma                                        consequences of Turkish victory at Manzikert Cyrillic alphabet                           calling of the princes                    Hagia Sophia demands of the Islamic faith                  Hegira                Shi’ite vs. Sunnite sects Avicenna                                               Averroes      Byzantium after Constantine place of women in Byzantine society                      influences on Russian culture influence of Byzantine artistic culture                                             Koran (Qur’an) Chapter 7:  Church and Society in the Medieval West industrial expansion in Flanders   role of women in medieval Christianity medieval concept of the three orders            place of Jews provisions of a charter granted to citizens of a town                       usury ventures of the counts of Champagne                       trivium interdict        auctoritas  investiture        potestas monastery of Cluny    Hildegard of Bingen       Normans of southern Sicily Canossa in 1077            Henry IV     Pope Gregory VII Summa Theologica            Decretum               Innocent III Frederick II        The Good Wife                      particularism universitas         conceptualism                          Realists Nominalists          Augustinians              Dominicans Marsiglio of Padua               Giotto           St. Francis of Assisi Canticle of the Brother Sun          features of Gothic churches Chapter 8:  The Beginning of the Secular State advantages enjoyed by strong medieval monarchs of France and England Capetians and dukes of Normandy          Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine Philip Augustus and John of England (Lackland)    crusade against Albigensians bailli   seneschal     enqueteurs           prevots Philip IV the Fair and Boniface III           Unam sanctum     Domesday Book scutage  fealty       wergeld                      common law  concept of law in medieval English jurisprudence    Thomas a Becket consolidation of power by Henry II   lasting importance of the Magna Carta Estates General   Statute of Mortmain       Song of Roland Divine Commedy     Canterbury Tales    Geoffrey Chaucer Chretien de Troyes         Hugh Capet          Babylonian Captivity Bayeux Tapestry       Salisbury Oath          Constitutions of Clarendon Chapter 9:  The Late Middle Ages in Eastern Europe events that set the stage for the Western crusades in the Holy Land          muftis Gregory VII and the Holy Roman Emperor      military thrusts by Suleiman I Peter the Hermit’s army                          the crusader states of the First Crusade the military orders and where they operated                     Ottoman “capitulations” Third Crusade and the kings who participated                                    the Koprulu beneficiaries of the Fourth Crusade                     consequences of the Crusades Charles of Anjou and the Sicilian Vespers                                         Seljuk Turks Developments during the last century of the Byzantine Empire             Novgorod effects of Tamerlane’s invasion       factors favoring Moscow’s rise to dominance ulema                         raya   millets                         janissaries subdivisions of the Ottoman ruling class        oprichnina          Michael Romanov source of major themes of early Russian art and literature  Assizes of Jerusalem concept of a third Rome   Saladin                 fall of Constantinople effects of the Mongol conquests            Time of Troubles              Boris Godunov Kuzma Minin                Urban II Chapter 10:  The Rise of the Nation events that characterized the turning point from medieval to modern    Jacquerie rising power of monarchs in the 16th century          Battle of Crecy origin and causes of the Hundred Years’ war         Etienne Marcel assassination of Louis, duke of Orleans      bastard feudalism Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges       Joan of Arc Statutes of Provisors and Praemunire             Bannockburn Composition of the House of Commons    Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 John Ball and Wat Tyler       Wars of the Roses “Model Parliament”   Robin Hood         Piers Plowman  Henry II            Bosworth Field         events of 1492 ways Ferdinand and Isabella enhanced royal control over Spain         the Hansa condottiere       Sir John Hawkwood     the Great Schism Guelf-Ghibelline conflict      ciompi      The Prince The Golden Bull of 1356      effects of the Black Death wool and woolen commerce between England and the Flemish region election of Holy Roman emperors after 1483            John Wycliffe Chapter 11:  The Renaissance view of the Renaissance by early 19th century scholars          ciompi reasons for decline of trade in the 1300s      Renaissance inventions extent of the travels of Venetian traders in the 1300s     Venetian arsenal veillee       Dante’s Divine Comedy      humanists Boccaccio’s Decameron          status of women          Lorenzo Valla  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales      Rabelais         Erasmus Carnival           effects of the Renaissance on the advance of science Gargantua and Pantagruel        technology advances adopted from the Chinese Brueghel          Bosch                     Michelangelo Dürer     Jacob Fugger  Cosimo de’ Medici Leonardo da Vinci      Baldassare Castiglione     money economy galleys, caravels, fluyts       banking         Petrarch Copernicus    Ambrose Pare   Andreas Vesalius Chapter 12:  The Protestant Reformation Brethren of the Common Life  Thomas a Kempis’s Imitation of Christ Girolamo Savonarola                        Martin Luther and his ideas indulgences and the reasons behind them            Frederick the Wise of Saxony response of Charles V Habsburg                                  League of Schmalkalden Peace of Augsburg 1555                                                  Teutonic Knights, 1525 Peasants’ Revolt of 1624-1525                                  Reformation in Switzerland Protestant attitude toward the Eucharist                                         Ulrich Zwingli Thomas Cranmer                           William Tyndale                           John Calvin doctrine of “consubstantiation”                        areas of strong Calvinist influence dissolution of the English monasteries                                               Anabaptists Thirty-Nine Articles     Arminianism                               Erastianism John of Leiden     effect of Inquisition on Protestantism in Northern Europe Chapter 13:  The Great Powers in Conflict consolidation of states except in Germany and Italy         composition of armies dominant states in the early modern period        invasion of Italy by Charles VIII fall of Rome in 1527                            struggle between Charles V and Francis I Calvinism in the Netherlands                       weakening of the Spanish economy Miguel de Cervantes                          alliances in the Wars of Religion in France Henry of Navarre          Edict of Nantes               views of the politiques reign of Henry VIII             handling of parliament by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I Edward VI                                    Mary Tudor          Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots opposition to the Thirty-Nine Articles                         revolt by the earl of Tyrone polders                                      Baruch Spinoza                  Albert of Wallenstein Cardinal Richelieu                                                                 Gustavus Adolphus   nature of the Thirty Years War           Francis Bacon Isaac Newton                             origin of “soldier”                 mercantilistic theory Chapter 14:  Exploration and Expansion Richard Hakluyt          Age of Discovery                     James Cook Timbuktu   origins of African slave trade     Vasco da Gama exploration and rivalries between European powers               Bartholomew Diaz reasons for exploration and expansion          early discoverers of the New World Prince Henry the Navigator                                                   Treaty of Tordesillas Alfonso de Albuquerque               Ferdinand Magellan           sub-Saharan Africa Mogul rulers of India                 Manchu dynasty of China             castes of India       trade with rulers of India          types of Buddhism                       encomienda Confucianism                                       factories                                  John Cabot reasons why Columbus believed he could reach India by sailing west      viceroy factors in ultimate failure of Spain’s American settlements to unify      mandarins creoles                                                 mestizos              Bartolome de las Casas Henry Hudson                                 coureur de bois                    sieur de la Salle reasons for settlement of Maryland and Pennsylvania                 French Canada  reasons for absence of a colonial nobility       struggle to control India after 1700 most successful and long-lived Dutch colonies Chapter 15:  The Problem of Divine Right Monarchy Cardinal Richelieu’s cardinal goal      the Fronde consequences of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes            Jansenists Louis XIV’s main military thrust               purpose of the Grand Alliance terms of the Treaty of Utrecht                          James I vs. Parliament Petition of Right      Solemn League and Covenant, 1638 Col. Pride’s purge                            Navigation Act of 1651 Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell  spark that ignited Glorious Revolution Act of Settlement of 1701                                      Battle of Boyne Baruch Spinoza                                     Thomas Hobbes John Locke                          17th century Baroque art              

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