Western Civ II

Assignment 1

Professor Kathleen Addison

Section I: Select 25 of the following terms and provide one paragraph (per term) definition that includes the significance and context of each. Do NOT cut and paste from online sources or you will receive a Fail for this assignment.

Renaissance	Machiavelli’s The Prince	Lorenzo de Medici
Pope Leo X	HRE Charles V	Humanism
Diet of Worms	Council of Trent	CounterReformation
Zwinglism	Calvin	Peace of Augsberg
Treaty of Cateau-Chambresis	St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre	Huguenots
Spanish Armada	Reformation by Statute	James I of England
John Locke	Thomas Hobbes	Copernicus
Sir Isaac Newton	Galileo Galilei	Johannes Keppler
Sir Francis Bacon	Mercantilism	Triangle Trade
Nine Years’ War	War of Spanish Succession	William of Orange
Edict of Nantes	Defenestration of Prague	Madgeburg
League of Augsberg	Dutch East Indies Comp.	St. Petersburg
Cardinal Richelieu	Palace of Versailles	Rene desCartes
On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies	Treaty of Utrecht	“Social Contract”
Cartesian Dualism	Leviathan	Elizabeth Tudor
Philip II (Spain)	Enlightened Despotism	Interregnum
Short parliament	30 years war	Galileo’s Letter

Section II: Study Questions – outline or put into a brief paragraph

1) Why did the Dutch manage to gain such a monopoly on trade in the 16-17^th century?

2) What caused the decline of Spain in terms of being the leading imperial power in Europe?

3) How did England’s political instability tie in with the religious switches in the 16-17^th centuries?

4) Why did public thought challenge the model of Absolutism?

5) What role did the American Revolution play in being a “proving ground” for the thoughts of the Enlightenment Philosophes?