SECOND MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE
History 380
Prof. Grimsley
Winter Quarter 2008
MATERIAL TO BE COVERED
Everything (lectures and required readings) since the first midterm; i.e., between "The Fall of Rome and the Byzantine Dilemma" and "The Old and New Worlds in Collision."
FORMAT
15 minutes for 10 “objective;” i.e., multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank. These may
include visual identifications; for instance, artifacts and maps. . The best guide to these questions are
the key terms.
45 minutes for essay. You will be asked to answer ONE out of two essay questions.
These will be based on the following theme:
Compare and contrast the warrior code in Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur with that of the Bushido (the samurai warrior code). . . . You are encouraged but not required to use apropriate material from Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars. However, material presented in the lecture on The Problem of Moral Judgment in War is fair game. So, for instance, I might ask, "What would a samurai have thought of the just war doctrine?" or "Would waterboarding have been permissible under the Round Table Oath?"
TERMS
Justinian I
Belisarius
Narses
cataphracts
heavy infantry
archers / mounted archers
“Greek fire”
Sassanid Persia
Vandals
Goths, Visigoths, Lombards
Mecca
Muhammad
Koran [Qur'an]
Hejira
Medina
Battle of Badr, 624 AD
House of Submission
House of War
jihad
Sunni Muslims
Shi'ite Muslims
Charles Martel
Battle of Poitiers, 732 AD
Charlemagne
vassalage
knights
landed infantry
Holy Roman Empire
Norsemen (Vikings)
Hundred Years’ War
chevauchee
longbowmen
“proto-nationalism”
Battle of Agincourt, 1415
Henry V - St. Crispins Day speech
Thomas Malory, Morte d’Arthur
Round Table Oath
Shogun
Kamakura Shogunate
Bushido – “way of the warrior”
samurai
daimyo
Oda Nobunaga
Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Shogunate
“sword hunts”
Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings, 1645
Daidoji Yuzan, Bushidoshinsu, ca 1650
The Forty-seven Ronin, ca 1700
pacifism
Augustine of Hippo
just war doctrine (including 7 main principles of the just war)
Crusades
holy war
Urban II
Seljuk Turks
Crusade
Fall of Constantinople,1453
Ottoman Empire
Lepanto, 1571
“European explosion” / Vasco da Gama Era
gunpowder / cannon
caravel / galleon
Aztecs
Jaguar warrior / atlatl
“flower wars”
Tenochtitlan
Hernan Cortes
Castilian sword / windlass crossbow / arquebus
Dona Marina / Malinche
Montezuma
rationalism