HISTORY 540 STUDY SHEET FOR 1ST MIDTERM Fall 2007

Instructions for Midterm: Midterm date: Wed., Sept. 26. Covers all reading listed on the syllabus up to Sept. 4 (Holt book, Burke book, Popkin handouts on Louis XIII and Richelieu, the Fronde, and Louis XIV) and all material covered in lecture.

The exam will include an essay question worth 2/3 of the grade and an ID section worth 1/3 of the grade. There will be some choice of questions on both sections.

Bring a large-size bluebook and be prepared to write in pen.

Hints for Preparation

"On the essays, Professor Popkin likes to make you compare things--like different explanations for the rise of absolutism. You gotta give your own evaluation, but, you know, you better have some reasons for it--don't just say 'it's my opinion.'" "Sometimes the guy gives you, like, dialogue questions." "Dialogue questions!?" "Yeah, he, like, makes you imagine that two or three of these dudes from back then are on a tv talk show or something." "Larry King meets Louis the King!" "He, like, seems to think you should be able to make up a little dialogue where each character says things that sort of reflect what we're supposed to have learned about them in class." "Wow." "Kind of hard to satisfy him just by writing 'Wow' over and over again."

Professor Popkin's Top Ten List of Things I Look for on Exams

1. Good grasp of general ideas from readings and lectures

2. Ability to explain why information is important, not just to regurgitate facts.

3. Ability to separate important information from trivia

4. Clear organization in essay exams

5. Use of appropriate examples to support generalizations

6. Accurate summary of factual information from course

7. Evidence that you have studied all the course material

8. Answers show that you read and understood test questions

9. Willingness to use historically informed imagination

10. Aren't nine criteria enough???

Key Terms People, events, movements, ideas that you should be familiar with, and be able to discuss in essays and IDs:

*absolutism

*Huguenots

*religious wars

*St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre

*Catholic League

*Henri III

*Henri IV

*assassination of Henri IV

*Sully

*trends in overall taxation, 1560s-1630s

*conflict with Habsburgs

*regencies and problems they caused

*Edict of Nantes

*taille

*venal offices

*nobility

*officiers

*La Rochelle

*paulette

*Marie de Medici

*Estates-General (role of, meeting in 1614-5)

*Louis XIII

*Richelieu

*'Day of Dupes'

*30 Years' War

*Mazarin

*Anne of Austria

*Fronde: main groups involved, issues, Ormée

*Chambre Saint-Louis

*role of nobles in Fronde

*mazarinades

*Louis XIV

*Louis XIV’s ‘personal rule’

*Colbert

*mercantilism

*Louvois

*intendants

*Louis XIV’s wars

*gloire

*William III

*Louis XIV’s policy of confining beggars, etc.

*Revocation of Edict of Nantes

*court life at Versailles

*motives for investment in art about the king

*academies

*rules for representing the king

*Charles Lebrun

*public ceremonies in honor of king

*critical images of king

*equestrian statues of king