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 Nantes          Council of Trent         Zwingli

The Dutch Revolt                  Peace of Augsburg     Anabaptists                Montaigne

Treaty of Westphalia Civic humanism          Spanish Armada        

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 Trent

 

 

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?

 

England                                   France                                     Holy Roman Empire

 

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