Assignments for this course take the form of written summaries, research, and analysis. They are designed to help us work through the course
objectives, while keeping a focus on our spiritual growth through conceptual learning. For each assignment, please develop a document and submit it to me in either Microsoft Word or HTML format (your word processing
software should permit you to do a "save as" and choose either of those formats).
Each assignment can be completed by consulting Web-based materials listed on the course Resource page. Assignment
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Reading
Assignment 4
Modern
History
Read
the articles in the following links and other online
resources relevant to the Modern History in order to
prepare yourself for your writing assignment.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/links/modern.htm
Writing
Assignment 4A
Modern
History
Write an essay from your own
perspective on Modern History. What have you learned.
What can man-kind learn form the past both good and
bad experiences from the past. This assignment will as
will the others be 10-15 pages single spaced in MLA or
APA style.
Writing
Assignment 4B
You
will choose any one of the following sets of
questions, 1 through 7. You must answer all
the questions in the set you choose.
Set 1
A.
Identify and explain the historical significance of the
following:
o
gentry
o
Huguenots
o
Henry the Navigator
B.
Narrate the Wars of the Roses.
C.
Analyze the rise and fall of Spain. Be sure your answer takes
into account not only economic factors but also
social and political factors as well.
Set 2
A.
Identify and explain the historical significance of the
following:
o
Lord Protector
o
Albrecht von Wallenstein
o
Court of Star Chamber
B.
Narrate the events leading up to the St. Bartholomew's Day
Massacre, the event itself, and its immediate
consequences.
C.
How absolute were the absolute monarchs? Your essay should give a
definition of absolutism, present examples of
absolute monarchs, and should assess in what ways
they met the definition and in what ways they did
not.
Set 3
A.
Identify and explain the historical significance of the
following:
o
Puritans
o
Gustavus Adolphus
o
Desiderius Erasmus
B.
Narrate the narrate the the Italian Wars (1498-1535)
C.
Compare any two female monarchs from this time period.
Possibilities include Elizabeth I, Catherine de
Medici, Marie de Medici, Anne of Austria, and Queen
Christina.
Set 4
A.
Identify and explain the historical significance of the
following:
o
Cardinal Richelieu
o
transubstantiation
o
enclosure movement
B.
Narrate the events surrounding the Spanish Armada in 1588.
C.
What were the causes of the English Civil War? Be sure to look at
underlying as well as at immediate causes, and at
individual players as well as general factors and
forces.
Set 5
A.
Identify and explain the historical significance of the
following:
o
Philip Melanchthon
o
Edict of Nantes and its revocation
o
Peace of Westphalia
B.
Narrate the career of Jean Calvin.
C.
What aspects of Protestantism led to social and political
radicalism? You should look not only at the
Anabaptists, but also at the Peasant Revolt in
Germany in 1525 and any other events you feel are
relevant.
Set 6
A.
Identify and explain the historical significance of the
following:
o
Johannes Kepler
o
Henry of Navarre
o
Ulrich Zwingli
B.
Narrate the Dutch Revolt.
C.
The Reformation has been explained in terms of people breaking
away from oppression, as just another heresy that
got out of control, as a failure of the Catholic
Church, and as another manifestation of the change
from medieval to modern. Assess each of these
interpretations, say which you think is more
correct, and why.
Set 7
A.
Identify and explain the historical significance of the
following:
o
mercantilism
o
Council of Trent
o
John Knox
B.
Narrate the Wars of Religion in France
C.
With "early modern" Europe we are no longer in
"medieval" Europe. What changed? That is,
what were the most important political, economic,
social and cultural differences between early modern
and medieval Europe? Which do you think were most
important? What continuities were there between the
two eras?
Resources for this assignment
Pre-Reformation
Reformation
Writings
Other
Early Modern Sources
The
Scientific Revolution
Format:
Your paper should be 10-15 pages in length and your
strategy documentation should be developed in good
report form, using either MLA or APA style for all
external resources.
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