Working Topics and Questions:
Instructions:
Please
take a look at the topics and questions proposed for DBQ#2, and come to class
on Monday prepared to discuss the selection of topics and the day that you want
to write your response.
2. Please
think about the choice of topic, the language of each proposed question, and
any changes you might suggest.
3. ALSO,
select your top two choices of topics and questions, which the instructor will
use to put together the final, official question for the DBQ.
4.
FINALLY, think about the primary and secondary sources from class that you
would use to support your responses to these proposed questions.
Suggest Topics and Questions:
I. The Italian and Northern Renaissance
1. The Renaissance was in many
ways a new development, strikingly different from the preceding Middle Ages.
2. The "newness" of the
Middle Ages can be minimized or reinterpreted as an evolutionary continuation
of the Middle Ages.
II. The Protestant and Catholic Reformations
1. The Protestant and Catholic
Reformations were a result of the intellectual and cultural developments of the
Renaissance.
2. The causes of the Reformation
were political in nature.
3. The Reformation was
predominantly a social revolution in Europe.
III. War and Revolution in Europe (1560-1660)
1. The turmoil in Europe between
1560 and 1660 was the result of both religious and political developments from
the mid-fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries.
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