Reading Assignments
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Possible Essay Topics for the Unit Test
The ways that the Reformation changed religious beliefs and practices in Europe. |
The ways that the Scientific Revolution brought about changes in thought that spread beyond science to philosophy and politics. |
The relationships between the political events of the period and the changes that were occuring in religion and politics. (your big picture timeline is critical for this) |
The ways in which Enlightenment thinkers were responding to the political, social, and economic events that were taking place around them |
Helpful Links
The Reformation
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Project Wittenberg | A Slightly Less Serious Luther Site |
Henry VIII and the English Reformation | John Calvin | |
Baroque Art & Music
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Baroque Art at the Web Museum | A List of Baroque Art Links |
Palace of Versailles | Paris Guide: Versailles | |
Baroque Music MIDI Collection | ||
The Scientific Revolution
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The Galileo Project | The Newton Center |
Collection of Scientific Revolution Links | A nice overview of the Scientific Revolution | |
The Enlightenment
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Encylopedia of Philosophy: Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau | Voltaire at the Lucidcafe |
Biographies at Blupete These will provide helpful additional support and links to writings of your important thinkers | The Enlightenment at the Modern History Sourcebook Lots of great documents you can quote in the Salon |