Midterm examinationFall 2013

Midterm examination50% Objective / 50 % Short Essay

–  Visual section (short identify) –  1 written section (1 short identify section) –  2 multiple-choice sections–  1 short essay

Midterm examination: cumulative

–  Opening slide shows and preliminary introduction (Support Pages) –  Olmeca (art, gods, dates, location) –  Maya (dates, art, gods, book, major rulers, major cities, and pyramids) –  Tolteca (dates, gods, major city, and pyramid) –  Azteca (dates, art, gods, major emperors, major cities and pyramids)

Midterm examination: cumulative

– –  Inca (dates, art, gods, major emperors, major cities, and ruins)

–  All official terminology and terms (see online list in Support Pages) –  Spanish context (Middle Ages through Renaissance 710-1600) –  Discoveries and Conquests: major conquistadors only

Midterm examination: cumulative

– – Dates: 353, 710, 1000, 1025, 1325, 1479, 1492, 1494, 1500, 1513, 1519-21, Dec. 12, 1531, 1532-33

–  Various Latin American people (periods, achievements) studied through Day 14 –  Major places and especially architecture and its styles (pyramids, churches, treaty cities)

Questionnaire

QUESTION

When Jews are expelled from Spain?

QUESTIONWhat civilization became powerful

in Mesoamerica between 1440-1469 (15th century)?

QUESTION

What did Pachacuti achieve between 1438-1472?

QUESTION

When Machu Picchu was built?

QUESTIONWhat are the names of the Spanish

monarchs that unified Spain?

QUESTIONWhen Jews are expelled from Spain?

QUESTIONDescribe the Mudejar style…

QUESTIONWhen is the end of the Muslim

conquest of the Iberian Peninsula?

QUESTIONIn what century the Great Mosque

of Cordova was built?

QUESTIONWho free the Iberian Peninsula from

the “Moors”?

QUESTION

In what century the Alhambra was built?

QUESTIONFor how many years the Iberian

Peninsula (Hispania) was taken by the Muslim Arabs?