Videos for Enlightenment Homework Assignments

Thomas Hobbes

John Locke

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Voltaire

Mary Wollstonecraft

End of the English Revolution

Cromwell - Hero or Villain?

Please watch the video and take notes to prepare for the Oliver Cromwell obituary.  

Was he a Hero?  Or a Villain?

The Rule of Charles I

notes from when he comes to power until he loses his head

Reading on the Civil War

Please read the first two paragraphs of this article and answer the questions below.  (Due Tuesday, October 2nd [blocks 2 and 7] or Wednesday, October 3rd [block 5])

You only need to read the first TWO PARAGRAPHS of the article.

1.  Why is the English Civil War so complicated, according to the article?

2.  The article goes on to say that, even if “the enemy” was defeated, “peace” was hard to come by.  Why?

3.  What was the primary conflict in England?

4.  What were some of the possible things that Parliament wanted if they won the war?

5.  Lots of different people had lots of different interests during the English Civil War.  Please explain what each of the following wanted:

The Scots:

The Irish:

The Aristocracy:

the “newly wealthy:”

the Puritians:

Starting the English Revolution

Background information through James I

Video on Elizabeth I - blocks 2 and 5

Please watch this video and answer the following questions for homework due on 9/26.  

1.  How was Elizabeth I described at the beginning of the video?

2.  Why couldn’t Mary trust Elizabeth?  What was the result of this distrust?

3.  How did Elizabeth calm the religious concerns of the English?

4.  Who did Elizabeth have arrested and executed, and why?

5.  Why didn’t Elizabeth want to marry either a foreign monarch or an Englishman?