No more history, ever. I had my Abitur/matriculation examination. Some nice questions - Edit 1
Before modification by Lordling at 30/03/2010 06:16:14 PM
And since I have no intention of ever studying history at university, it means: no more history lessons, ever. Pretty damn great, IMO.
There were ten questions, 6 that needed to be answered and 6 hours to answer them. We had to attend the exam for three hours.
I have a glow around me. I feel it went pretty awesomely. Here are a few of the questions:
1. The Roman empire was at its largest in 117 after the death of the Emperor Trajanus (Trajan in English?). What factors enabled the size of the empire?
This was the easy first question.
4. There were two World Wars in Europe in the 20th century and nations underwent several internal conflicts. According to the interpretation of the British historian Paul Preston "the Spanish civil war was just one episode in the larger European civil war that ended in the 1945". How well can the events of the beginning of the 20th century be described as European civil war?
Not very well, I hope. Because that was my point. If you accept that a continent with nations that have made multiple alliances but are still all independent can undergo a civil war, then the First World War probably could be described as a civil war. The Second, however, was a lot more global. I'd hazard a guess that Americans wouldn't appreciate the opinion that the Second WW was a European civil war. Considering that Japan had a rather large part in it. A nice question.
OMG. This one sucked:
8. Conflicts that are claimed to be ethnic generally have political and economic reasons behind them and actually are not so much related to relationships between ethnic groups. Judge the accurateness of the claim on an area/country of your choosing that lies outside of Europe. From the 1950s to the present day.
Umm..What? *reads again* No, still don't get this. The war between some Nigerians and those who declared Biafra independent probably could qualify, but I could never write 2-3 pages of that.
10.
a) Read the following quotes by Eduard Sevardnadzen, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl. Compare their opinions on the reunification of Germany.
b) What factors enabled the reunification of Germany, and what have been the effects of the reunification in Germany and Europe?
That was my favourite question. Thatcher was against, apparently partly because she was worried that German would become too powerful in the EEC. Kohl was for it, of course, provided that the DDR would be democratic. The Soviet guy was pessimistic.
No more history
And in case you wonder, I have no point in posting this. Just think it's interesting.
Keine Geschichte.
There were ten questions, 6 that needed to be answered and 6 hours to answer them. We had to attend the exam for three hours.
I have a glow around me. I feel it went pretty awesomely. Here are a few of the questions:
1. The Roman empire was at its largest in 117 after the death of the Emperor Trajanus (Trajan in English?). What factors enabled the size of the empire?
This was the easy first question.
4. There were two World Wars in Europe in the 20th century and nations underwent several internal conflicts. According to the interpretation of the British historian Paul Preston "the Spanish civil war was just one episode in the larger European civil war that ended in the 1945". How well can the events of the beginning of the 20th century be described as European civil war?
Not very well, I hope. Because that was my point. If you accept that a continent with nations that have made multiple alliances but are still all independent can undergo a civil war, then the First World War probably could be described as a civil war. The Second, however, was a lot more global. I'd hazard a guess that Americans wouldn't appreciate the opinion that the Second WW was a European civil war. Considering that Japan had a rather large part in it. A nice question.
OMG. This one sucked:
8. Conflicts that are claimed to be ethnic generally have political and economic reasons behind them and actually are not so much related to relationships between ethnic groups. Judge the accurateness of the claim on an area/country of your choosing that lies outside of Europe. From the 1950s to the present day.
Umm..What? *reads again* No, still don't get this. The war between some Nigerians and those who declared Biafra independent probably could qualify, but I could never write 2-3 pages of that.
10.
a) Read the following quotes by Eduard Sevardnadzen, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl. Compare their opinions on the reunification of Germany.
b) What factors enabled the reunification of Germany, and what have been the effects of the reunification in Germany and Europe?
That was my favourite question. Thatcher was against, apparently partly because she was worried that German would become too powerful in the EEC. Kohl was for it, of course, provided that the DDR would be democratic. The Soviet guy was pessimistic.
No more history
And in case you wonder, I have no point in posting this. Just think it's interesting.Keine Geschichte.