This test is based upon the Chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16. It will be due at the beginning of class on Thursday, February 28. (Do NOT email your reponses). You may use your book, notes, and any sources consulted must be cited. Wikipedia may never be used. Your instructor is the only live source you may consult! Responses will be submitted typed (font size 12) and multiple pages must be clipped/stapled. Unexcused late work will receive a 0%. Some responses may be essay, others may be charts or bullets – but be sure you include adequate discussion for charts/bulleted lists.
Question 1 – vocabulary – all students will answer this question. Be sure to answer all the terms, list the term and its complete definition which must be proper to the present course of study! 20 points sumptuary laws philosophes Neoplatonism sans-culottes Jacobin
Roundheads enlightened absolutism heliocentrism Tennis Court Oath Directory
Mercantilism Hermetic Doctrine balance of power Thermidorian Reaction deism
Fronde Cartesian dualism laissez-faire levee en masse rococo
Question set 2 – answer your choice of one of the following questions (a – f). Label your response. 15 points a. How was family life arranged and what roles did family members play in the 17th century? b. How did poverty, disease, and famine affect the lives of ordinary Europeans during the 17th century? c. What pressures and threats did European monarchs face as they tried to assert their authority? d. By what means did Cardinal Richelieu secure royal power in France – and how did this elevate France’s position in Europe? e. How did eastern and western Europe differ socially, economically, and politically? f. How did the Reformation help make Renaissance and Enlightenment ideas possible?
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Question set 3 – answer your choice of one of the following questions (g – l). Label your response. 15 points g. Discuss the differences between Thomas