Midterm Exam HI 102
Midterm Exam
Answer the following questions in a short answer essay (20 points each). Use quotes from the text to help answer the questions. Spelling and punctuation should be correct.
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What role did religion play as a motivation in the age of discovery? Was it as important a motive as economics? Give examples
Religion seems to have had such an important role with regards to being a motivation in the age of discovery. It is clear that there were different variables, maybe more essential than religion, that appeared to have been to a greater extent as motivation, for instance propels in innovation, send building and furthermore they want to discover new land to develop. The crusades were the attempt of Catholic Europe to expand. However, it had somewhat failed. If there is something that could have acted as a religious inspiration for investigation was the look for Prester John. The economic motives were more important. However, religion was not left aside.
Religion was a motivational tool for those who desired to convert the "heathens" to the religion of Christianity. T
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Some historians labeled the Thirty Years' War as the last of the religious wars, while others have called it the first modern war? Which do you believe is the more accurate assessment? Why? PG 475
The problem between Catholicism and
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Comparing the American Revolution and the French revolution there is the main reason why the French revolution had more influence. The American upheaval was for the most part in the Americas. It presented the idea of freedom, philosophes, and republicanism. While the French upheaval, acquainted with the world the idea of communist and socialist standards, despite the fact that they weren't obviously distinguished and recorded until later on. These ideas were meaningful because it is how people thought. Also, France stopped having a