Tuesday 23 November 2010

The Test That I Killed Myself Studying For And Really Hope I Pass Score

Number wrong: 19
Score: 50/50
YAY!

The Test That I Killed Myself Studying For And Really Hope I Pass Part Deux

48. Prince Henry the Navigator
49. Christopher Columbus
50. Columbian Exchange
51. Goods and people
52. Mercantilism
53. Joint-Stock Company
54. Protestant
55. True
56. Amsterdam
57. Hapsburg
58. No
59. Pachelbel
60. Middle class
61. House of Lords
62. Protestants (Anglicans)
63. Stuart
64. Episcopal
65. 1603 - 1625
66. Divine Right of Kings
67. Puritans
68. Petition of Right
69. William Laud
70. Scotland
71. Cavaliers
72. Roundheads
73. Oliver Cromwell
74. Republic
75. Lord Protector
76. Levellers
77. Charles II
78. Stuart Dynasty
79. Thomas Hobbes

Monday 22 November 2010

The Test That I Killed Myself Studying For And Really Hope I Pass

1. Martin Luther
2. 95 Theses
3. Amsterdam (???)
4. The Basilica
5. October 31 (Halloween), 1517 (**Freebie)
6. Salvation by faith alone
7. The Bible
8. Hierarchy of bishops and Pope
9. The Protestants and Martin Luther (???)
10. False
11. German peasantry
12. Catholicism
13. Protestantism
14. Peace of Augsburg
15. Luther was a revolutionary because he contradicted the Catholic teachings, and when the Catholics approached him in a Council to make him admit his mistakes, he refused.
16. Luther was a political conservative because he didn't involve himself in wars, though there were wars fought over his beliefs.
17. John Calvin
18. Amsterdam
19. (**Freebie)
20. Hugonots
21. Henry VIII
22. Elizabeth I
23. Anabaptists
24. Pope Leo
25. Council of Trent
26. True
27. William Tyndale
28. Archbishop Curly
29. To have faith in God and spread it to others
30. 17th century (1600)
31. Raphael
32. Philip II
33. The Spanish Armada
34, St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
35. Edict of Nantes
36. 300
37. Peace of Augsburg
38. Protestant Union
39. Catholic League
40. Catholic (they wanted to reverse Protestant gains)
41. Protestants
42. Catholic League: Ferdinand II; Protestant Union: Frederick V
43. Gustavus Adolphus
44. Peace of Westphalia
45. Alsauce
46. Germany
47. France

Tuesday 16 November 2010

DBQ Format Quiz

1. What is the range of scores for a DBQ essay?
  • The range of scores is from 0-9, with 0 being the worst and 9 being the best.
2. If a DBQ does not have a thesis statement, what's the highest score it can get?
  • If a DBQ does not have a thesis, the highest score it can get is a 5.
3. If you have 12 documents, what is the bare minimum of documents you must cite?
  • The bare minimum documents is 7, half of the given plus one
4. Explain what "bias" is.
  • Bias is the viewpoint of the author or artist of a given document, which could get in the way of the true facts
5. What does it mean by "groupings"?
  • Grouping refers to categorizing the documents in some way, such as by the different types of people the authors are (Ex. - nobles, peasants, merchants)
6. What would be the citation for "Document 5"?
  • (Document 5)

Wednesday 10 November 2010

Baroque Symphony

  • Minuet in G - Bach
    • Johann Sebastian Bach was a famous German composer during the Baroque period. He was born on the thirty-first of March of the year 1685. At the age of 14, Bach was accepted to the prestigious St. Michael’s School in Luneburg, Germany. After graduating, Bach went from being a court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst, to an organist at St. Blasius’s to a court organist in Weimer, where he first had an opportunity to compose his own music. Through his life, Bach composed pieces for the organ and harpsichord, orchestral music, and choral performances. “Minuet in G” was one of the most famous pieces attributed to him, appearing in the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, a collection of compositions from himself and others for his second wife.
  • Spring - Vivaldi
    • Antonio Vivaldi, as opposed to Bach and Pachelbel, was an Italian Baroque composer known for his violin concertos. Vivaldi was born in Venice in the year 1678, learning to play violin from his father at a very early age. It is said that Vivaldi had a form of asthma, one possible reason why many of his compositions were for string instruments, as opposed to wind instruments. Vivaldi After being ordained as a minister at age 25 in 1703, Vivaldi received the nickname of “The Red Priest,” for his hereditary red hair and new status in the Church. “Spring” was one part of Vivaldi’s four-part violin concerto titled “the Four Seasons,” and is broken into three parts based on tempo.
  • Canon in D - Pachelbel
    • Like Bach, Johann Pachelbel was also a German composer during the Baroque period. Pachelbel, born in the year of 1653 in Nuremburg, was employed as an organist throughout his life at such places as the Saint Stephen Cathedral and Predigerkirche in Erfurt, where he settled for a long time. During his stay at Erfurt was the time when Pachelbel did the majority of his composing, and also when he met and married his two wives. “Canon in D” is notably Pachelbel’s most famous composition and his only canon, but wasn’t published until 1919.
  • Fanfare-Rondeau - Jean-Joseph Mouret
    • Unlike our previous composers, Jean-Joseph Mouret was an French Baroque composer born in the year of 1682. He was one of the forerunners of the Baroque movement in his country at this time. He was born on April 11th to a wealthy silk merchant who recognized his musical prowess and supported him so that it could blossom. He moved to Paris at the age of 25, and was made a musical superintendent to Anne, Duchess of Maine. Under her employment, Mouret produced operas and was soon promoted to the director of the orchestra of the Opèra in 1714. Fanfare-Rondeau is one of few of his works that are still performed today.

Tuesday 2 November 2010

Kaplan Guide: Chapter 3 The Renaissance

1) Roman Catholic Church: After the Christian Church split in 1054, this was the half centered in Italy ruled by the Pope

2) Eastern Orthodox Church: After the Christian Church split in 1054, this was the half centered in Constantinople

3) Crusades: A series of religious wars fought from 1095 to 1291 in a vain attempt to regain the Holy Land from the Muslims

4) Bubonic Plague (Black Death): A deadly disease that came from the Middle East to Europe in the 14th century that was caused by bacteria living on rats and wiped out over 30% of the population

5) Gunpowder: A mixture of coal and sulfur that first appeared in Europe in Norway in 1250 A.D. and was a big factor in warfare

6) Medici: An influential family in Europe that gained power after developing a bank and becoming rich.   Giovanni, Cosimo, and Lorenzo were all humanists and big patrons of the arts

7) Oligarchies: Committees of the wealthy and powerful that rule city-states and are often tyrannical;  Ex. - Vaishali, the First French Republic, Sparta

8) Condottieri: Foreign mercenaries soldier leaders who were sometimes hired by city states to make their armies stronger

9) New Monarchies: Stable and centralized governments created by 15th century European rulers

10) Humanism: A secular concept of life with a focus on the liberal arts (Classics, rhetoric, history)

11) Renaissance Man: The ideal person who used his opportunities, demonstrated control, and was a casual expert in many subjects; Ex. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Renaissance_men

12)  Perspective: A way to paint or draw to give work depth and a three-dimensional sense

13) Leonardo da Vinci: A painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer who is considered to be one of the most diversely talented men in history

14) Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni): A painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer during Renaissance whose rival was da Vinci

15) Frescoes: Mural paintings done by mixing color into wet plaster on a wall or a ceiling

16) Madonnas: Paintings of the the Madonna that were popular in Renaissance Italy, though religious paintings were as a whole declining because of the secular humanism in this time period

17) Raphael Sanzio: A painter and architect of the high Renaissance who paid special attention to religious works, made famous by his painting of the Madonna and Child

18) Pieta: Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus

19) Filippo Brunelleschi: One of the foremost architects and engineers in the Italian Renaissance, the architect who built the Florence Cathedral dome

20) Dante Alighieri: The author of the Divine Comedy, in Florence, Italy, which he wrote in the vernacular

21) Francasco Petrarch: An Italian poet who developed the Italian sonnet

22) Giovanni Boccaccio: Notable humanist of the italian Renaissance and writer of the Decameron, written in the vernacular

23) Baldassare Castiglioni: An Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier, and a Renaissance author who wrote a book on how to be a proper courtier

24) Niccolo Machiavelli: An Italian philosopher and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance who wrote The Prince

25) Christian humanists: People who were more spiritual in their outlook, less materialistic, and more focused on questions of morality and ethics

26) New universities: An influx of universities founded in the North in the 15th century

27) Fugger: A family of bankers from Germany in the 15th and 16th century in who were known as replacing the Medicis

28) Thomas More: English lawyer, humanist, philosopher, author, and statesmen of the Italian renaissance who was an important chancellor to Henry and considered a saint in the Catholic Church

29) Desiderius Erasmus: A clergyman who believed in the goodness of humanity

30) Mysticism: A mystery religion that doesn't have an exact belief in the divine

31) Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life: A Roman Catholic religious community formed in the 14th century who practiced the Modern Devotion

32) Flemish Masters: Painters of realistic oil paintings

33) New Monarchies:

Tudors- The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor was a prominent European royal house of Welsh origin that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including the Lordship and Kingdom of Ireland, from 1485 until 1603. Its first monarch was Henry Tudor.
Valois - a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, succeeding the House of Capet as kings of France from 1328 to 1589. A cadet branch of the family reigned as dukes of Burgundy from 1363 to 1482.
Habsburgs - Important royal house of Europe from which all elected Holy Roman Emperors and rulers of Austria and Spain came


34) Star Chamber: A royal court developed by Henry VII for offending nobility, conducted without a jury

35) Inquisition: Institutions that fought against heretics within the Roman Catholic Church

36) Holy Roman Empire: A realm of German states bound together under one emperor that grew for many years