HIEU Final Exam Essay Study Guide
Essay Study Guide for Final Exam
Comprehensive Essay Topics
Christianity and Western Civilization
o Crusades / Reformation / Holy Roman Empire
Epochs of History: Ancient, Classi
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HIEU Final Exam Essay Study Guide
Essay Study Guide for Final Exam
Comprehensive Essay Topics
Christianity and Western Civilization
o Crusades / Reformation / Holy Roman Empire
Epochs of History: Ancient, Classical, Medieval & Modern
o Ancient = before alexander the great
o Classical = how the cultures merge under the authority of Alexander (conquests)
o Medieval = festivals, daily life, agrarian culture, different warfare style (knights,
weapons, bows, cavalry = obsolete infantry), Black Death
o Modern = printing press, art, reformation (religion), sciences and math
The Monotheistic Religions (Judaism, Christianity & Islam)
o Compare the three
Lecture Essay
(You will be given essays on two of the following four themes)
1) Late Middle Ages
Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy
Papal Schism
Monasticism and Early Reform
Attempts
Inquisition and Heresies
Mongol Invasion
Black Death
2) Renaissance
Fall of Constantinople
The “Father of Humanism”
o petrarch
The Medici Family and Florence
Artists and Patronage
Italian Renaissance
Northern Renaissance
Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing
Press
3) Age of Discovery
Scientific and Technological discoveries
Christopher Columbus and the
Discovery of the New World
Conquistadors & Explorers
The Colonial Empires of Spain and
Portugal
Aztec & Inca Empires
4) Reformation
Martin Luther and the 95 Theses
Diet of Worms & the Augsburg
Confession The Protestant Confessions of
Lutheranism, Swiss & Dutch Reformed,
and Church of England
The Radicals and the Peasant’s War
Huguenots and Religious Wars
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