Spring '10 Final Exam

Directions: Answer 2 of the following questions in essay form using the same style guidelines as for the research paper. An adequate answer will be 4 pages minimum. Your grade will be based on how well your response uses evidence from the assigned readings. Exams will be due between noon and 1pm on Friday of Finals Week at a location TBA (our classroom might be occupied). I will only accept hardcopies. No email attachments please.

1) What was the impact of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations on social disciplining and state-building? What was its relationship with popular culture? The witch craze?

2) Discuss the mental impact of the discovery of the Americas on European society. How did their cultural background influence their perception of the New World?

3) The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were dominated by conflict that can be characterized as religious but also had political, social, and economic factors at play. Discuss the Wars of Religion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the non-religious factors that were contributing factors.