FIRST MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

 

History 380
Prof. Grimsley
Winter Quarter 2008

DATE AND TIME

Thursday, January 24, 11:30-12:30 p.m.  The examination will be held in class, except for those eligible to take examinations through the Office for Disability Services.  If you are so eligible, I need to see and sign the required paperwork as soon as possible.

MATERIAL TO BE COVERED

Everything (lectures and required readings) through The Fall of Rome.

FORMAT

20 minutes "objective;" i.e., multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank.  These will include visual identifications; for instance, artifacts and maps.  (Potential artifacts are found on the Glossary page.  The map questions will be adapted from maps available on the course web page or the U.S. Military Academy Online Map Atlas -- look under Ancient Warfare). You will be asked to answer 15 questions.  The best guide to these questions are the key terms.  (See below.)

40-minute essay.  You will be asked to answer ONE out of three essay questions.  These will be based on the themes that have been emphasized thus far in the lectures and readings:

POTENTIAL ESSAY THEMES

The exam will offer you a choice from two essay questions, both drawn from French's The Code of the Warrior . You'll be asked to write on just one of these. Here is an example of a possible essay question:

Broadly speaking, the warrior code may be defined as self-disciplined, aggressive action taken in the service of a larger good. Compare and contrast the Homeric, Shaolin Monk, and Roman codes of war as discussed in the Shannon French book. Which most nearly conforms to the warrior code under this definition?

TERMS

Lectures 1 and 2.  THE NATURE OF WAR

war
collective violence
satyagraha (nonviolent resistance)

Lecture 3. WHY MILITARY HISTORY MATTERS

Lecture 4.  WAR BEFORE CIVILIZATION, or "PRIMITIVE WAR"

Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Age
Seville Statement
Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa
Harry Turney-High, Primitive War
The Yanomamo
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Lectures 5.  WAR IN EARLY CIVILIZATION

chiefdom
state society
empire
social classes
bronze
spear
archer
composite bow
war cart / war chariot
grand strategy
strategy of the "satisfied power"
strategy of the "acquisitive power"
Egypt
Iron Age
Assyria
cavalry
Persia

Lecture 6. THE HOMERIC WARRIOR CODE

Homer's Iliad
Carl Jung
Joseph Campbell
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Walter Mitty
Achilles
Hector

Boy Pschology:
Hero (Grandstander Bully)
Hero (Coward)
Hero in his fullness

Man Psychology
Warrior (sadist)
Warrior (masochist)
Warrior in his fullness

Lecture 7.  WAR AND CLASSICAL GREECE

polis
hoplite
phalanx
Salamis (480 BC)
Peloponnesian War (457-404 BC)
Thucydides
Philip of Macedon
Alexander the Great

Lecture 8.  WAR IN ANCIENT CHINA

Shang dynasty
Zhou dynasty (Chou dynasty)
Sun-Tzu (Sunzi), The Art of War
Qin dynasty (Ch’in dynasty)
Han dynasty
Great Wall of China
Shaolin Monks
The Four Noble Truths
The Noble Eightfold Path

Lecture 9.  WAR IN THE ROMAN REPUBLIC

citizen-soldier
legion
gladius
pilum
Second Punic War
Hannibal Barca
Battle of Cannae
"Carthaginian peace"

Lecture 10.  WAR AND IMPERIAL ROME

Hadrian
Praetorian Guard
Stoicism
hedonism
Diocletian
Constantine
Adrianople (378 AD)
Fall of Western Roman Empire (ca. 410-476 AD)

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