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* Thomas Beckett (c. 1118 – 29 December 1170) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket]
 
* Thomas Beckett (c. 1118 – 29 December 1170) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket]
* John of England 1166/1199-1216 ("John Lackland")
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* John of England 1166/1199-1216 ("John Lackland")[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lackland_of_England]
* John Wycliffe (1320s-1384)
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* John Wycliffe (1320s-1384)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe]
* Henry VIII
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* Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII]
* Elizabeth I
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* Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I]
* Oliver Cromwell
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* Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 Old Style– 3 September 1658 Old Style) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell]
* John Locke
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* John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke]
* Adam Smith
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* Adam Smith (5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith]
* Karl Marx
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* Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx]
* Abraham Lincoln
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* Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln]
* Queen Victoria
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* Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria]
* Charles Darwin
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* Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin]
* Thomas Alva Edison
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* Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison]
* Cecil Rhodes
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* Cecil Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes]
* Henry Ford
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* Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford]
* Henry Kissinger
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* Henry Kissinger (May 27, 1923)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger]
* Martin Luther King, Jr.
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* Martin Luther King, Jr.(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King]
* Mahatma Gandhi
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* Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Ghandhi]
* Nelson Mandela
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* Nelson Mandela (born 18 July 1918)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela]

Revision as of 13:07, 21 December 2008

Ich hatte im 1. Semester die glorreiche Idee BM2 zu schieben. Als "Ersti" hatte ich das Gefühl nicht alles gut genug schaffen zu können, wenn ich mich auf soviel konzentriere. Nun kann ich leider viele Aufbaumodule nicht belegen, weil BM2 vorausgesetzt wird. Ist es möglich wenn ich jetzt mit dem BM2 anfange parallel so ein Blockseminar im Februar zu besuchen? Dann hätte ich ja wenigstens den 1. Teil vom BM2 schon mal. Ärgerlich. Da habe ich mich wohl im 1. Semester verkalkuliert.

...schon per e-mail geregelt, machen wir, auch im Interesse des Blockseminars. --Olaf Simons 15:25, 27 August 2008 (CEST)
Dann wäre eine für alle sichtbare Antwort an dieser Stelle sinnvoll (gewesen), da ich mir denken kann, dass diese Frage mehrere Studenten haben (und hier gucken, ob es eine Antwort darauf gibt). Deshalb fake edit. Verena Engelhardt 15:26, 27 August 2008 (CEST)

Wo steht eigentlich nochmal die Info welche chapter wir jedesmal vorbereiten sollen?


Die Fragen am Ende der letzten Vorlesung haben es wieder einmal gezeigt; Keiner weiß, was man denn genau lernen muss für die Klausur. Und irgendwie habe ich pers. auch den Eindruck dass zwischen den Lektoren keine Übereinstimmung bezüglich dieser Frage herrscht. Das ganze wirkt dann auch auf die Tutoriengestaltung, und mittlerweile sind es nur noch ca. 10 Personen, die erscheinen(Freitags zumindest).Dimitri.simons 17:41, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Hier eine kurze Vorinformation zum written test
  • Dauer: 60 Minuten + etwas Reservezeit
  • Teil 1: (30 Minuten) kurze Faktenfragen, möglicherweise multiple choice, die in die verschiedenen Bereiche gehen und Breite des gemeinwissens erfassen
  • Teil 2: Zwei Fragen (Bearbeitungszeit je 15 Minuten) auszuwählen aus sechs Fragen (zu verschiedenen Gebieten der Vorlesung) - mit dem Ziel, Raum für eine knappe Darstellung von Zusammenhänge respektive Argumentationen zu geben
Vorbereitung: Wir werden in der Sitzung zum 17. Dezember zwei Listen ausgeben. Die erste besteht aus Daten und Ereignissen, die Euch etwas sagen müssen, die zweite, nennt Personen, über deren historische Bedeutung ihr ein knappes Bild haben solltet. Ihr könnt die Informationen aus den Powerpoint Folien beziehen oder aus Medien wie Wikipedia.
Die sechs eingehenderen Fragen, aus denen Ihr zwei auszuwählen habt, um 15 Minuten darüber zu schreiben nehmen Fragen auf, die in den Präsentationen gestellt wurden. --Olaf Simons 16:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Timeline

Prehistoric Period

  • 700,000 years ago: human settlements on later British soil, the later British Islands still part of the continental shelf. Several several glacial and interglacial periods in which hunter-gatherers appear and reappear
  • 70,000 and 10,000 years ago: last ice age, extreme cold snap between 22,000 and 13,000 years ago
  • 7500 to 6000 years ago: Meltwater causes see level rise of 120 m, and separation of Ireland from Britsh mainland, and of British isles from continental shelf
  • 3100-1600 BC Stonehenge in use. Similar constructs of megalith culture can be found all over western Europe
  • 500-50 BC predominance of Celtic culture.

0-1000

  • 43-410 Romanisation of Celts in modern England (122/142 Hadrian’s and Antonine walls against northern Picts) map
  • 410 Romans leave Great Britain, power vacuum, waves of Saxons, Angels and Jutes found kingdoms on British soil
  • 597 Beginning of Christianisation under St. Augustin
  • 793 Lindisfarne raided by Vikings, next three centuries: Viking settlements in northern England

1000-1500

  • 1014-1042 Danish Rule, line of succession ends with son of Canute the Great
  • 1066 Battle of Hastings, Franco-Norman rule under William I
  • 1215 John Lackland has to grant the Magna Carta to avoid conflict with English barons, parliament and civil rights strengthened
  • 1290 Jews expelled from England
  • 1380-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
  • 1339-1453 Hundred Years War against France, rise of English Nationalism
  • 1453-1487 War of the Roses: Dynastic Conflict
  • 1473 Caxton's press produces first printed book in London
  • 1497-1583 Newfoundland claimed by England, several colonies founded on East coast in competition with Spanish, French, and Dutch colonisation

1500-1599

  • 1538 Henry VIII Establishes Anglican Church
  • 1553-1558 rule of Mary I (1516-1558), Catholicism re-established almost 300 dissenters burned at the stake
  • 1560 Reformation in Scotland, organised by John Knox, Presbiterian, Calvinist Church
  • 1558–1603 Elizabethan era, Protestantism reestablished, 1590-1611 Shakespeare's plays
  • 1585-1604 Conflicts with Spain (Francis Drake and the Armada) over Naval Supremacy and Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium) and Ireland

1600-1699

  • 1600 East India Company founded, several similar shareholder companies follow with trade monopolies granted by crown. Colonialisation basically achieved by commercial enterprises protected by English/ British crown.
  • 1611 King James Bilbe Authorised Version
  • 1640-1660 Civil War and Commonwealth
  • 1641 Star Chamber abolished history of press wars ensues and goes on till today
  • 1649 Charles I beheaded (January 30)
  • 1651 Thomas Hobbes Leviathan published (plea for absolute monarchy and subordination of religion, perceived as an atheist's theory of state by all sides)
  • 1660-1689 Restoration of monarchy, libertine court, wars between England and Netherlands as strongest naval powers
  • 1666 London destroyed in Great Fire
  • 1688/89 Glorious Revolution William of Orange (Dutch) ascends throne, Bill of Rights, new press laws, new laws on religious toleration: 1690 John Locke, On Toleration (1690), Two Treatises of Government (1690), Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (1690)

1700-1799

  • 1707 Act of Union: England/ Wales/ Scotland become one Kingdom (a union existed de facto since James I and the Stuart ascension)
  • 1719 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe (author stood on pilory in 1703 after publishing his Shortest Way with Dissenters (1702).
  • 1720 South Sea Bubble, Walpole strengthened ans political manager, status of prime minister evolves
  • 1754 Battle of Plassey (India), British East India Company exercises military power and assumes administrative functions in India
  • 1756-1763 The Seven Years' War: Ends France position as a major colonial power in the Americas
  • 1770 James Cook's Expedition
  • 1774-1776 USA Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
  • 1750s-1830s Industrial revolution with use of steam energy, second phase 1830-1900 with new energy supplies, growing infrastructure and Industrialization of USA.

1800-1899

  • 1810s-1830s riots against mechanisation
  • 1837-1901 Rule of Queen Victoria
  • 1848 Karl Marx' The Communist Manifesto published, Marx moves to England (1849) where he works til his death in 1883
  • 1857 Indian Rebellion, 1858: British Crown assumes direct administration over India
  • 1859 Charles Darwin Origin of Species published. Evolution theory rises against short history of Earth (as created in 4404 BC by God). Impact on cultural theory: Human culture evolved slowly. Efforts taken to speed up developments.
  • 1861-1865 American Civil War
  • 1869 after 11 years of work (based on the forced work of over 30,000 people), Suez Canal opened. 1880s Begin of British Colonisation of Africa
  • 1882 The "Chinese Exclusion Act"
  • 1890s-1918 Enfranchisement of women in Great Britain, USA: 1918
  • 1895-: silent era of film; 1927: beginning of sound era of film (with The Jazz Singer)
  • 1899-1902 Philippine-American War, invasion, ends with Fall of First Philippine Republic, land acquisition by American companies, destabilisation of Catholic church and long term efforts to introduce English as lingua franca

1900 till Today

  • 1914-1918, WWI, 1917: US enters the war
  • 1920s onwards: radio broadcastings; history of radio, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio
  • 1928: television service begins in the US, 1929, television service begins in the UK; households with a TV set in the US: 0,5 % in 1946, more than 50% in 1954. Reading suggestion: Tichi, Cecelia. Electronic Hearth: Creating American Television Culture. New York & Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
  • 1929-1931 US-American economic crisis affects the whole world
  • 1930s USA: New Deal economic recovery and reform programs
  • 1939-1945 World War II, Allied Nations against Germany, Italy, Japan. Use of first Atom bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945
  • 1950s-1990s several US American Interventions in Latin America
  • 1950-1953 Korean War of North against South Korea
  • 1964 USA: Civil Rights Act
  • 1965 USA: Immigration and “Naturalization Act”
  • 1959-1975 Vietnam War with pre-history of confrontations involving Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and European powers
  • 1970s GB: Economic crisis
  • 1973: The United Kingdom becomes a member of the European Union
  • 1979-1989 United States CIA program to arm the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
  • 1989 Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses published. Ensuing confrontation between religious republic of Iran and secular west.
  • 1990-1991 Gulf War after Iraq attacked Kuwait
  • 2001/9/11 terrorist attack on World Trade centre
  • 2001-2008 War in Afghanistan
  • 2003-2008 Iraq War

People

Task: retrieve birth- and death-dates (bring names into correct order), link into Wikipedia, and write a one or two sentence statement on historical importance

  • Thomas Beckett (c. 1118 – 29 December 1170) [1]
  • John of England 1166/1199-1216 ("John Lackland")[2]
  • John Wycliffe (1320s-1384)[3]
  • Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) [4]
  • Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[5]
  • Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 Old Style– 3 September 1658 Old Style) [6]
  • John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) [7]
  • Adam Smith (5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790) [8]
  • Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883)[9]
  • Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)[10]
  • Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) [11]
  • Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)[12]
  • Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)[13]
  • Cecil Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) [14]
  • Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947)[15]
  • Henry Kissinger (May 27, 1923)[16]
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)[17]
  • Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) [18]
  • Nelson Mandela (born 18 July 1918)[19]