Why did Parliament succeed in expanding its powers in England at the expense of the king?
Explain how Newton’s Principia or Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species and Locke’s Second Treatise on Government or Marx’s Communist Manifesto challenged the conventional wisdom of their time and changed how people thought.
September 13, 2019What is Euthyphro’s third definition of “piety?” How does Socrates respond to this definition? Explain.
September 13, 2019Why did Parliament succeed in expanding its powers in England at the expense of the king?
Question Description
Unit 1 Introduction
- How has geography influenced the course of history?
- What is history?
Unit 2 Seventeenth-Century Europe
- Why did Parliament succeed in expanding its powers in England at the expense of the king?
- What were some of the characteristics of political modernization in France?
Unit 3 Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
- Why was the era called the “Enlightenment?”
- What did Isaac Newton achieve as a scientist?
- What were the main characteristics of the Ancien Régime (Old Regime) in France?
- Who was Napoleon and why was he considered an embodiment of the revolution?
- Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England?
- How did industrial production change Western society?
- What did the Decembrists hope to achieve through their uprising?
- Was Emperor Alexander I an enlightened monarch?
- What were the main points of Marx’ critique of capitalism?
- What were some of the distinctive features of nineteenth-century conservatism and liberalism?
Please answer each question in a long paragraph. Thank you in advance.
