Exam questions Flashcards
To what extent did the Romans see the expansion of their empire as religiously sanctioned?
Does Roman expansion into the Eastern Mediterranean mark a firm break with the East’s Hellenistic past?
What military factors contributed to Rome’s conquest of the Mediterranean in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC?
In what ways did the Punic Wars change Roman society?
What role do Roman authors such as Livy and Polybius play in our understanding of the Roman Republic?
Compare and contrast Mary Beard and Greg Woolf’s analyses of the rise of Rome in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC
Discuss the role of the Mediterranean in Roman Republican history
How can we use ancient evidence to tell the story of the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean? Discuss ar least two different types of evidence in your answer
To what extent were the Punic Wars inevitable?
How did contact with the Mediterranean shape elite Iron Age society in Gaul?
How did contact with Rome shape the material culture of northwest Europe in the late Iron Age?
Discuss the role of Carthage in the ancient Mediterranean
To what extent is the term ‘post-Roman’ an accurate description of the western empire during the 5th and 6th centuries?
How would you account for the development in kingship in early medieval Europe?
How significant was the influence of ‘Rominatas’ (Romanness) on the post-Roman kingdoms of western Europe?
Account for the surge in Viking piracy that took place in the 9th century
To what extent and in what senses were the Viking of the 9th and 10th centuries an existential threat to the Christian policies of the early medieval west?
To what extent was religion the cause of religious wars in the early medieval period?
What made the ideal knight in the period 1000-1200?
Why was France so riven with disunity and disorder in the central Middle Ages?
Explain the role(s) that the Church and religion played in the resolution of conflict in medieval France c.900-1200
To what extent was the Church the dominant force in society between 1000-1200?
Examine the reasons for the collapse of one of the following wild animal populations in the modern era: sperm whales, American buffalo, passenger pigeons, African elephants, North American beavers
‘The use of fossil fuels as the prime source of energy has vastly increased the power to produce but it is accompanied by environmental hazards which threaten disastrous consequences.’ Discuss.
We should not lament ‘the sad fate of the buffalo’ because their extermination enabled economic growth. To what extent do you agree with this statement
‘The primary cause of the buffalo’s extermination, and the one which embraced all others was the descent of civilisation’ To what extent do you agree with this statement?
What was the relationship between environmental change and economic growth in the modern era?
How has the ‘celebration’ of Jack the Ripper in popular history and entertainment divorced itself from a critical, historicised view of the case?
What is the legacy of Jack the Ripper?
