The Homework for Chapter 21 for Period 7 is listed below, Period 8 should scroll down
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PERIOD 7:
Read Chapter 21 Section 1 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.
Due: Monday, 11/24
1. Define:
a. Absolute Monarchy
b. Divine Right
c. Phillip II
2. What is the significance of England's defeat of the Spanish Armada?
3. Why did absolute monarchs believe that they were justified in exercising absolute power?
4. Why did the Dutch revolt against Spain?
5. Why didn't Spain's economy benefit from the gold and silver from the Americas?
PERIOD 8
Read Chapter 21 Section 2 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.
Due: Monday, 11/24
1. Define:
a. Edict of Nantes
b. skepticism
c. Louis XIV
d. intendents
e. Jean Baptiste Colbert
2. What impact did the French religious wars have on French thinkers?
3. How did the policies of Jean Baptiste Colbert and Louis XIV affect the French economy? Explain both positive and negative effects.
4. Many historians think of Louis XIV as the perfect example of an absolute monarch. Agree or disagree with the statement using evidence to support your position. Do not speak from first person ("I believe, I think, my opinion"--historians don't care about your opinion).
5. To what extent did anti-Protestantism contribute to Louis XIV's downfall?
