France in the mid-18th century began to see “cracks” in the traditional social constructs of the ‘ancien regime’. Using Robert Darnton’s observations in his work The Great Cat Massacre examine the possible challenges to the traditional values and social hierarchy that possibly showed signs of a more dangerous event to come (Use both your readings to answer the question).

Hint for LEQ:

A Block:

1. Analyze the different ideas held by Voltaire concerning the roles of women in Europe.
2. Analyze Voltaire’s views on Hobbes, Leibniz, and Bayle’s ideas in “Candide.”
3. Compare the views of Machiavelli, Rousseau and Locke on human nature and the relationship between government and the governed.
4. Trace religious toleration as a political practice and philosophical idea from the mid 16^th Century through the Enlightenment.
5. Analyze the extent to which Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria advanced and did not advance Enlightenment ideals during their reigns.

D Block:

1. Analyze the different ideas held by Voltaire concerning the roles of women in Europe.
2. Analyze Voltaire’s views on Hobbes, Leibniz, and Bayle’s ideas in “Candide.”

3. “Nature and nature’s laws lay hid the night God said, ‘Let Newton be,’ and all was     light.”The couplet above was Alexander Pope’s way of expressing the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and Christianity. What was the effect of seventeenth century science on Christianity, and how did each react to the other.

4. Analyze the ways in which specific intellectuals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries defined the idea of the social contract.

5. Compare and contrast the political ideas of Hobbes and Locke

Multiple Choice: Age of Exploration, Religious Wars, English Civil War, Witchcraft Craze, Inquisition

SAQ: Religious Wars

LEQ: Cromwell

Please see the attached directions below – we will examine each timeline on Friday so be ready to defend your choices.

European Timeline Directions

Below are the rooms – remember to sign in with your first initial and last name.

A Block

D Block

If you would like the catered dinner that goes along with the speaker please RSVP with Dr. Buggeln.

Dinner: 6:30pm

Seminar: 7:00pm

 

MC Source Base and Fact Base

Northern Renaissance, Renaissance, Aquinas, Erasmus, scholasticism, humanism, Jesuits, Council of Trent, Huguenots, Luther, Peasant Revolt, Indulgences, Calvinism, Act of Supremacy, The Courtier, The Confessions of Augsburg, The Schleithein Confessions, Menno Simmons, Michael Servetus, Pope Paul III, Ignatius Loyola

SAQ

Renaissance Art, Women during 15th/16th Century, Caravaggio – Counter Reformation, Anabaptists, Zwingli, Calvinism, Lutheran, Presbyterians

 

The following subjects will be the main focus of the LEQ test for those who were absent on test day. You will be required to do TWO LEQs: One selected by instructor and one selected by you.

1. Machiavelli and Medici
2. New Monarchs and Centralization
3. Machiavelli and Podcast Mad Monarchs
4. Humanism and Renaissance thought

MC – Source based and Fact based:

Readings from Renaissance period, New Monarchs, Humanism, Individualism, Classicism, Erasmus, Petrarch, Castliogne, Machiavelli, Savonarola, Brunelleschi, Northern Renaissance vs Italian Renaissance, Characteristics of Renaissance Art

Source Based:

Machiavelli and Medici, Filthy Cities, Mad Monarchs, Anti-Semitism