MIDTERM EXAM --Tuesday February 7 IN CLASS -- PLEASE BRING BLUE BOOKS

FORMAT:   Short answers, Identifications and Essay Question (some choice within each section)

SHORT ANSWERS (fill in the blanks or multiple choice) based on lectures and readings in Palmer and Colton).
These questions are intended to be relatively easy, and to assess whether basic information is getting across.
May include a short section of matching authors with titles of major treatises we have discussed or read about.

IDENTIFICATIONS: Identify and explain the significance of 5 items from a list of 10 on the midterm,all chosen
from the posted list of possible ID's. You will be asked to "identify and briefly explainthe significance of"
names or terms selected from lectures and readings. You will need to write a short paragraph of 4-5 sentences
explaining the basics for each event, person or institution -- who, what, when and WHY is it significant
historically, including dates or other relevant statistics. LINK TO MIDTERM ID LIST

DATES: you should know the dates for major events listed on ID sheet and use them  where appropriate
in your answers to ID questions and in your essay as needed. You should also have a general sense of
chronology: what happened first? what happened later? For rulers on list, know what order they came in and
try to learn one significant date in their reign (you don't have to know the exact dates of their reigns)

ESSAY QUESTION: choose one of three. These questionswill ask you to discuss some issue of general
importance   in seventeenth century history (see below from general themes and issues presented in first part
of the course).  Your answer should include specific information within framework of a general response to
question posed. Present an account of the events in questions, as well as an analysis of their causes and
effects. Use the ID list and posted lecture outlines for a general review.

READING TO BE COVERED:  Palmer & Colton, Ch. 3-7, & Ch. 8, enlightened despotism
      Locke, Second Treatise of Government   Descartes, Discourse on Method
      Selections assigned from Jacob The Enlightenment:   Voltaire's Letters

Themes, issues for review: use posted lecture outlines for detailed review

"General crisis of the 17th Century":

      demographic changes, European marriage pattern
      economic, social, political, military crises

Relationship of religion and politics in 17th century Europe:

Thirty Years War and Treaty of Westphalia 1648

English Civil War 1640-1660 (or Puritan Revolution) and Glorious Revolution of 1688
         1649 execution of Charles I, rise of Cromwell

France: Richelieu politique policies against the devots & the Huguenots
            Louis XIV against Huguenots, Jansenists and Jesuits

Political developments and their theoretical justifications:

      England: idea of limited governmental powers, constitutional monarchy
                 especially in writings of Locke (against Hobbes, Filmer)
               context of English Civil War, Revolution of 1688

      France: Richelieu's centralizing policies, absolute monarchy under Louis XIV
         The Fronde 1648-1653 and its effect on Louis XIV
        Absolutism in theory and practice, court of Versailles
        Bishop Bossuet as chief spokesman for French divine right absolutism theory    

Eastern Europe: from traditional absolutism to enlightened despotism in
                      Austria, Prussia, Russia

Intellectual history:

Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century:
            astronomy and physics from Copernicus to Galileo

Philosophical consequences of Scientific Revolution
         Cartesian rationalism: idea of "new science" and scientific method
           doctrine of innate ideas; mathematics as model of certain knowledge
           deductive system; "dualist" split between mind and body; pineal gland

      vs English empiricism:  John Locke's theory of knowledge (epistemology)
            based on sensory experience, induction, observation
             mind as blank slate: tabula rasa

      Religion:
        Tensions within traditional religions: 
           England: Anglicans vs Presbyterians, Puritans; English civil war sects
           France: Huguenots, Gallican Church, Jesuits, Jansenists
        Critique of traditional religion Voltaire, Letters concerning the English Nation
          (Treatise of Three Impostors will be covered on final exam not midterm)