Tell Me Everything about Western Civilization starting in 1600 AD or CE

[Akhkharu Asgard]

I have a test in my Western Civilization II class today. The first one of the semester. And I feel like I cannot remember anything. Why did there have to be 1000 King Louis and 100000 Charles and James??!?!?!?!?!?!?! Oh and the test is all wonderful essays from hell. Not just hell, but the Fundemental Christian hell where there torture people for looking at the opposite sex, I don't even want to know what they would do to me for not knowing my Western Civ (or going to this site)! Well, wish me luck.

:uzi: :devil:
(me) (Louis XIV)

[luna rising]

I dunno . . . but I can tell you I always liked essay questions best. They are WAY easier to BS. I am a big fan of the term "partial credit."

Good luck to you, though.

[Silver_FireStar]

what do you mean by western civilisation? And what parts of it are you being tested on?

[luna rising]

Here - this might help. Or distract you from studying for a little while ;)

http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=83852

[Akhkharu Asgard]

Here - this might help. Or distract you from studying for a little while ;)

http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=83852

I just took the test. I don't know. I think I did ok. I wonder if writing about Iron Maiden helped any :)

[WickedBttrfly]

Hmmm... probably not. :hutone:

[Zibblsnrt]

Well, I suppose if anything you might have learned to study a bit more in advance. ;) Last semester I did a lot of grading for western civ students' papers and exams, and at times I'm still not sure who was hurt worse by the class - them or myself.

Assuming you're a freshman or something near there, the main thing I can say for studying history is that you don't simply work on memorizing the textbook or whatnot; it doesn't help and takes far too long. Not every word in the text is necessary; you don't need to know the history of all eighteen Louii, for instance, but only what the couple-three important ones did. If you can summarize a part of the texts you're reading in a few paragraphs, then you're on a right enough track to have gotten the basic ideas of the topic. Once you get that figured out, then you can start zooming in on detail.

What were the questions like anyway? My personal favorite history exam was - literally - "ask yourself two questions and answer them..."

[Paracelsus]

Hm, that's right up there with the famous OXbridge entrance exam question - "Is this a question?"