Source: Textbook (required): Winks, Robin W. and Thomas E. Kaiser. Europe, 1648-1815: From the Old Regime to the Age of Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780195154467.
Instructions:
By answering two of the following essay questions, you may earn up to 10 points of extra credit towards a major grade (5 points per essay).
A) What was the Protestant Reformation? Be sure to discuss the causes, the actors involved and their beliefs, its impact and spread, the Catholic responses, and the consequences. Be thorough and specific. Use of outside sources to answer this question will result in 0 points.
B) Discuss the Thirty Years’ War. Be sure to address the causes, the major events, the phases, the people and countries involved, and the outcomes and consequences. Be thorough and specific.Use of outside sources to answer this question will result in 0 points.
C) What was absolutism? Discuss the French model of absolutism as it evolved. Who was involved? What were the characteristics of their reigns? What were the limits of absolutism in France? How did the pattern of absolutism in the east different from absolutism in the west? Be thorough and specific.Use of outside sources to answer this question will result in 0 points.