NOTES:

1. Please place your student number (social security number) on your exam papers. NO NAMES!

2. Please staple this sheet at the end, behind, after your exam.

3. Please write on only one side of the paper at a time. You may write on both sides of the paper, however, at different times.

4. Write on one (and only one) of the questions that follow:

A. Explain the title and subtitles of the instructors outline that follows. Develop all the parts of the outline in its historical context showing a thorough knowledge of the history of the era.

EMERGING: The Enlightenment

1. A clock

2. On philosophes

3. Free Schools

4. Enlightened Absolutism

B. Describe the development of the National -State in western Europe from 1500 to 1799. OR

C. FROM YOUR TEXTBOOK (p. 141): "The years between roughly 1660 and 1789, which witnessed the prevalence of absolutism in western Europe, witnessed as well the most important mutation in all European intellectual and cultural history to occur between the Middle ages and the present." EXPLAIN!

NOTES:

1. Please place only your student numbers (social security numbers) on your exam papers. NO NAMES!

2. Please staple this AFTER-AFTER your answer to the essay question.

3. Please write in pen or pencil only.

4. Please avoid substance abuse.

5. ANSWER ONE (1) OF THE ESSAY QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW:

A. Describe the long range and short range causes of World War I. Be specific--names pertinent historical movements, events and dates.

OR

B. "The Causes of Imperialism and the Impact on the World." Make this title the title of your essay and write.

OR

C. Describe the historical events that are pertinent to the instructors outline that follows:

CHANGE: The Rise of Nationalism

1. Lets be Romantic!

2. Ripe Fruit or Strong Winds?

3. Upheavals -- 1848

4. Blood and Iron

NOTES:

1. Please place only your student numbers (social security numbers) on your exam papers. NO NAMES!

2. Please staple this AFTER-AFTER your answer to the essay question.

3. Please pray for a good grade. Your grades will be posted outside the classroom.

4. Thanks for putting up with me for a semester. Have a good life!

5. ANSWER ONE (1) OF THE ESSAY QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW:

A. The authors of your textbook write: "Following the end of the Second World War came the dissolution of several European colonial empires and the consequent emergence of newly independent states in Africa and Asia, adding members to what began to be called the 'Third World,' as distinguished from the two superpowers and other advanced industrialized nations." Illustrate this trend with specific historical details.

OR

B. Describe the influence of the mass movements of Fascism and Marxism on the history of the last 70 years of the twentieth century. OR

C. Dr. Kirshner argued that he adhers to Albert Camus' interpretation of "The Myth of Sisyphus" Presenting examples of the aforementioned theory, from the idealists to the realists, explain why humankind in the twentieth century has not allowed the cockroach to inherit the earth.