GROUP V (Required) 12. Complete the following sentences: a) Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphics on the b) The Temple of Karnak was dedicated to the god c) The Babylonians used the d) e) f) writing. was a center of the Aegaean civilization in Greece. was a famous tyrant of Athens. g) The Parthenon was dedicated to the worship of h) The most important center of Hellenistic culture was i) An alien resident in Athens was called a 7) After his victory in 216 B.C. Hannibal spent the winter at m) In 395 A.D. the Emperor sons. divided the Roman Empire between his two 13. a) Locate and name on map A the sites of five of the following: 1. The capital of the earliest Egyptian kingdom. 2. The capital of Assyria. 3. The capital of Chaldea. 4. The capital of Lydia. 5. A province added to the Roman Empire by Claudius. 6. A great Athenian naval disaster. 7. The kingdom of Jugurtha. 8. The death of Alexander. b) Trace carefully on map A three of the following routes: 1. The expedition of Xerxes. 2. Alexander the Great's march to Arbela. 3. Caesar's campaign against Pompey. 4. The Visigoths. 5. The Vandals. c) Locate and name on map A five places important in the career of Hannibal. 1925 HISTORY B-EUROPEAN HISTORY Thursday, June 18 9 a.m. Two hours. Candidates offering Medieval and Modern European history should omit all questions in Group III. Candidates offering Modern European history should omit all questions in Group II. Wherever the nature of the question permits, give dates, or otherwise indicate the time relation. GROUP I (Required) 1. Write on one of the following: St. Francis of Assisi, Frederick Barbarossa, Napoleon III, Catherine the Great. GROUP II (Answer two questions) Only for candidates offering Medieval and Modern European history. 2. Give an account of the rise and spread of Mohammedanism to the battle of Tours. 3. What were the chief problems that confronted Charlemagne, and how did he attempt to solve them? 4. What were the causes of the formation of the Hanseatic League? Name three of its important cities. What was its greatest work? Why did it disappear? 5. What policies or measures tended to increase the royal power in France under the following kings: Philip Augustus, Louis IX, and Louis XI? GROUP III Only for candidates offering Modern European history. 6. Why has the Turk been permitted to remain in Europe? Give three instances of wars waged by the European powers against Turkey since 1815 and give the cause for each of these wars. 7. Who were the members of the Holy Alliance? Why was it formed? Give one example of its activity in Europe, and one in America. 8. How did France lose her colonial empire in the eighteenth century? Name five of her colonial possessions today. 9. Trace the growth of German unity from 1815 to 1871. (THIS EXAMINATION IS CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) GROUP IV (Answer one question) 10. Why did the industrial revolution come first in England? What effect did it have upon the Napoleonic wars and upon parliamentary reform? 11. Discuss an important religious problem with which the government of each of the following countries has had to deal since 1800: France, Italy, Germany. 12. Compare the Russian revolution of 1917 with the French Revolution of 1789 in its effect upon (a) the ruler, (b) the nobility, (c) the peasants. GROUP V (Required) 13. Distinguish between the terms in five of the following pairs: (Answer [a] and either [b] or [c]) 14. a) Locate and name on map B five of the following: 1. The place where the treaty ending the War of the Spanish Succession 2. An important city of the Hanseatic League. 6. A German region occupied by French troops in 1923. 7. A Belgian colony in Africa. 8. The site of Napoleon's victory over Austria and Russia in 1805. b) Locate and name on map B the new countries which have come into existence since 1914. c) Locate and name on map E five of the following regions and put in parentheses the name of the country controlling each: Madagascar, Ceylon, Newfoundland, Korea, Gibraltar, Java, Tripoli, Greenland. 1925 HISTORY B-EUROPEAN HISTORY Tuesday, September 22 2 p.m. Two hours. Candidates offering Medieval and Modern European history should omit all questions in Group III. Candidates offering Modern European history should omit all questions in Group II. Wherever the nature of the question permits, give dates, or otherwise indicate the time relation. GROUP I (Required) 1. Write on one of the following: Innocent III, St. Louis (IX), Metternich, William II of Germany. GROUP II (Answer two questions) Only for candidates offering Medieval and Modern European History. 2. How did Charlemagne rule his empire? What modern countries or parts of countries were nominally under his control? 3. What were the reasons for the influence exercised by the popes of the Middle Ages, and what forms did that influence take? 4. Discuss the contributions, in other fields than art and literature, which the Renaissance made to the civilization of Western Europe. 5. Name three countries in which the Normans made conquests during the tenth and eleventh centuries. Give an account of their rule in one of these countries. GROUP III (Answer two questions) Only for candidates offering Modern European History. 6. Name three of the "benevolent despots" of the eighteenth century. Give an account of the work of one of them. 7. What were the effects of the revolutions of 1848 upon three European countries? 8. Explain the circumstances under which the Greek people gained their independence in the nineteenth century. 9. Why has Europe been so anxious to partition Africa? What European nations have taken part in this partition and what has each gained? GROUP IV (Answer one question) 10. What did Napoleon Bonaparte do for France besides winning military victories? 11. Why have the Balkan states been called the "tinder-box of Europe”? 12. What part has Alsace-Lorraine played in the history of Europe since 1870? (THIS EXAMINATION IS CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) GROUP V (Required) 13. Complete ten of the following sentences: in the fourteenth century. c) The leader of the revolt of the Netherlands against Philip II was was a reactionary minister under Louis Philippe. d) e) Prussia was recognized as a kingdom by the treaty of. f) The Prince was written by g) was killed at Lützen in 1632. h) The order of Jesuits was founded by i) was president of the French Republic during the World War. j) An important British possession in China is k) The Congress of Berlin was held in the year 1) The incident caused friction between France and England in 1898. m) was a famous dramatist of the age of Louis XIV. n) wrote the Social Contract. o) The chief event of the Crimean War was the siege of GROUP VI (Answer [a] and either [b] or [c]) 14. a) Locate and name on map B five of the following: 4. The capital of the Irish Free State. 5. The city threatened by the Turks in 1683. 6. The birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte. 7. A city founded by Peter the Great of Russia. b) Trace on map E three of the following routes: 2. Napoleon's movements during the Hundred Days. 4. Napoleon's expedition of 1798-99. 5. The Kiel Canal. c) Locate and name on map E five of the following: The Bermudas, Calcutta, Port Arthur, Sumatra, St. Helena, Louisburg, Vladivostok, the Congo Free State. |