Questõesde FGV 2018 sobre Inglês

draw attention to the vigorous but transitory nature of Germany’s central Middle Ages civilization.

highlight the fact that what we call “European” culture in fact comprises many distinct, often unrelated cultures.

support the idea that Europe’s great central Middle Ages civilization may be considered a world that died.

emphasize that the Great Famine and the Black Death did not destroy all aspects of Germany’s central Middle Ages culture.

suggest that, contrary to popular belief, modern historians know almost nothing of real substance about the central Middle Ages.

was in general confined to Germany’s cities and towns, having little impact on rural areas.

Disasters in the fourteenth century killed more people in Germany than at any other time in that country’s history.

What happened in Poland and the Soviet Union in the early 1940s is similar to what happened in those regions in the 1340s and the 1630s.

Unlike the destruction that took place in Central and Eastern Europe in the Second World War, the destruction that occurred in the first half of the fourteenth century was limited to German territory.

The disastrous period that began in the German territories after 1280 lasted longer than either the Thirty Years War or the Second World War.

It is likely that more Germans died in the disasters of the late Middle Ages than died in the Thirty Years War and the Second World War put together.

Before 1280, sculptured memorials were very common; after that date, painted memorials began to predominate.

Wealthy families placed such memorials in churches to commemorate important events such as births, weddings and funerals.

When times where bad, the subject matter of such memorials tended to be religious rather than non-religious.

When such memorials from a given historical period are absent, that period was probably marked by serious problems.

during most of the 1200s, life in the several German regions was precarious at best.

the year 1280 is generally considered the year when the central Middle Ages ended in Germany.

it is undeniable that in Germany in the Middle Ages, date of birth determined important aspects of a person’s future.

no one has been able to explain why death and destruction were so widespread in Germany during the central Middle Age.

In that period, Germany as a whole reached a level of wealth and culture that it has never again equaled.

At that moment in history, the civilizing influence of the crusades and the Holy Roman Emperor began to evaporate.

The people of Germany were unprepared for the drastic changes that would soon come.

Making sure your daughters marry early and your sons marry late can be very lucrative.

Whatever money or goods a woman earns from her brideprice always goes to her father.

Women older than 20 have a hard time finding husbands and thus earn very little money from their brideprice.

Cattle and single women are equally valuable as commodities in impoverished farming communities.

more problematic for young men in polygamous societies than in non-polygamous societies.

perhaps the worst aspect of a patriarchal society, because it transforms the bride into a commodity.

In countries where polygamy is widely practiced, young women rarely want to marry poor young men.

Emotional inequality causes more conflict and violence than does economic inequality.

In any country, young men deprived of access to women cause most of the violence.

Inequality resulting from polygamy is harder to rectify than any other form of inequality.

It is impossible to point to only one factor as the cause of South Sudan’s civil war.

The widespread matrimonial frustration of many young men must be considered a reason for South Sudan’s civil war.

Few South Sudanese understand that polygamy is the real reason behind the country’s already endemic social and economic problems.

As a relatively wealthy South Sudanese, he was able to pay for his IT studies in the United States.

His main reason for engaging in polygamy is to improve his status in his home village.

He returned to South Sudan because polygamy is prohibited in the United States.

He is one of South Sudan’s relatively wealthy men who do not intend to stop with only one wife.

draw attention to the vigorous but transitory nature of Germany’s central Middle Ages civilization.

highlight the fact that what we call “European” culture in fact comprises many distinct, often unrelated cultures.

support the idea that Europe’s great central Middle Ages civilization may be considered a world that died.

emphasize that the Great Famine and the Black Death did not destroy all aspects of Germany’s central Middle Ages culture.

suggest that, contrary to popular belief, modern historians know almost nothing of real substance about the central Middle Ages.

was in general confined to Germany’s cities and towns, having little impact on rural areas.

Disasters in the fourteenth century killed more people in Germany than at any other time in that country’s history.

What happened in Poland and the Soviet Union in the early 1940s is similar to what happened in those regions in the 1340s and the 1630s.

Unlike the destruction that took place in Central and Eastern Europe in the Second World War, the destruction that occurred in the first half of the fourteenth century was limited to German territory.

The disastrous period that began in the German territories after 1280 lasted longer than either the Thirty Years War or the Second World War.

It is likely that more Germans died in the disasters of the late Middle Ages than died in the Thirty Years War and the Second World War put together.

Before 1280, sculptured memorials were very common; after that date, painted memorials began to predominate.

Wealthy families placed such memorials in churches to commemorate important events such as births, weddings and funerals.

When times where bad, the subject matter of such memorials tended to be religious rather than non-religious.

When such memorials from a given historical period are absent, that period was probably marked by serious problems.