Exam 1: Historical Events and Figures in World History

The Greek Seleucid Empire used a chronology that began with Seleucus Nicator's occupation of ……………..in 311 B.C.

The Roman calendar began with Rome's founding in …………… B.C.

Hegel's thoughts on world history are expressed in The Philosophy of History, based on lectures first given in……………..

The Roman emperor ……………..decided to tolerate Christianity (313 A.D.)

Who wrote the Decline of the West?

The conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in …………… AD is commonly used as the end date of the medieval world.

Columbus first set foot in ………………..in 1492 A.D.

Johan Huizinga was a …………………historian.

……………..may be considered as the first writer who has made a tri-partite division to the world history for the first time.

Ottoman Turks extinguished the Eastern Roman Empire by capturing …………………(1453 A.D.),

It was during the Early Middle Ages that the world witnessed the rise, growth and decay of the ………………dynasty stared by Emperor Charlemagne, which could fill the power vacancy that had existed since the fall of the Roman Empire.

The Moslem calendar begins with the hegira, Mohammed's journey from Mecca to Medina in ……………….. A.D.

The last emperor of the western Roman Empire, ……………., was deposed by the Heruli king Odoacer (476 A.D.).

'A Study of History' is the work of ………………….

The tri-partite periodisation became popular after the German historian ………………..used it in his 'Universal History Divided into Ancient, Medieval and New Period' (1683).

………used the tri-partite periodisation in his 'History of Florentine People' (1442)

Martin Luther caused a split in western Christianity by posting his "95 Theses" on the door of the castle church in……………, Germany (1517 A.D.).

Henri Pirenne was a ……………….historian.

The most commonly given start date in European history for medieval period is …………………. AD, in the year Romulus Augustus the last Roman emperor in the West abdicated.

………………….caused a split in western Christianity by posting his "95 Theses" on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, Germany (1517 A.D.).