Week of January 19, 2015

I hope you enjoyed the long weekend.  Monday was Martin Luther King, Jr Day, and both he and his father were renamed for the 16th century Church reformer, Martin Luther.

Midterm Schedule this week
Tuesday exams A+B
Wednesday 1/2 Day C+D
Thursday 1/2 Day E+ F

Midterm open ended questions

1.  What is civil disobedience?  Who developed this policy of reform?  What are its two components?  Why is civil disobedience so effective?  Identify and explain a civil disobedience protest and explain if you think its effectiveness.  How do the recent protests against the police mistreatment of African Americans break from the concept of civil disobedience?

2.  What would be the best way to teach a class or coach a team: Confucianism, Daoism, or legalism?  Why is  one method better in the short and long term than the other two methods?

3.  Identify and explain the MAINS causes of WWI?  Explain how the implementation of the von Schlieffen Plan brought all the major European powers into WWI.  Could this war have been avoided?  Explain why or why not.

4.  How did the Treaty of Versailles lead to the election of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in 1933?  How was Germany treated by the treaty and why did all Germans dislike it? Why were Jews a common scapegoat to attack throughout most of European history?  How did Hitler use the scapegoat to unite Germans?

5.  Describe the feudal relationship between a lord and his vassal.  What obligations were owed by each to the other?   Why did feudalism develop in the Middle Ages and how was it a response to Viking attacks?  What were the obligations the peasants owed their lord?  Why would serf give up their freedom?  Identify what what was  more important in the Middle Ages than freedom.  Draw a motte and bailey castle and explain how it provided protection from invaders.

6.  Why were the Crusades called?  Were they a success or a failure?  Explain how they may have been both a success and a failure.What is cultural diffusion? How did Europe benefit culturally and commercially from the Crusades.  What is the legacy of the Crusades today?  Why is the University of Holy Cross changing its mascot from Crusaders to Suns?