NOTE: The examination will take place on Friday, 17 December, from 1:30 to 4:00 pm. It will be held in the regular classroom, LA 339. You will need to bring with you a #2 pencil and enough university examination books (blue books) in which to write two essays.
This examination is comprehensive. You are responsible for all of the readings, lectures, and discussions, with an emphasis on the material since the second examination. An understanding of the assigned readings will be essential, and you should, therefore, review those sections indicated by the questions for each reading assignment.
In the last version of this course, students wrote two essays for this examination: one on slavery and the other explaining the failure of Iberian monarchies to retain their primacy over other European countries in the development of the global economic system. They were told: in addition to the material presented in class lectures, for the former, you will want to pay close attention to the material in Burkholder and Johnson (the text on Latin America used then), in Thornton, and in the extensive on-line discussion of slavery; for the latter, you will want to pay close attention to the material in Burkholder and Johnson, in Kamen (on "Spain"), in Subrahmanyam (on the Portuguese in Asia), and in my on-line message about Castile's seventeenth-century crisis.
On this examination, each of the two essays will be worth 30% of your grade, and the multiple-choice section will be worth 40%.
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