Study Guide Professor
Wertheimer
History 101 Final Exam
Below are potential short answers and essays for the final exam. Be certain that you use the questions effectively; while you will not need to know all the material, if you only study half of it you risk that half not being on the exam. Think about how the short answers and essays tie together and what short answers might fit in the essay questions as well.
Christian humanism Petrarch Indulgences Joan of Arc
Pope Boniface VII Galileo Bruni Erasmus
Elizabethan Settlement Copernicus Great Schism Johannes Kepler
Act of Supremacy Edict
of
The Dutch Revolt Peace of
Treaty of
Pico della
Mirandola Ignatius
Loyola Institutes of the Christian Religion
Possible Essay Questions:
1). Using three of the following terms, compare and contrast the religious reform movements they represent. How were they similar, how were they different, and why did those differences emerge? You may find it useful to consider similarities and differences of both doctrine and practice.
Erasmus Luther Calvin Council of
2). Using at least three of the following individuals, explain the development of European thought from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Your answer should consider what subjects they studied, how they studied them, and why their thought differed.
Petrarch Bruni Erasmus {Montaigne} Galileo
3). In addition to causing great religious upheaval, the Reformation had a significant impact on how European nations addressed religious affairs both within their borders and beyond them. Using the three nations below, discuss the political impact of the Reformation. How did different nations deal with the Reformation, and what effect did their policies have on their relations with other nations?