Religious Upheavals, Expansion of Empires, and the Enlightenment and Great Awakening
Instructions
Choose 3 of the following topics and write an essay On Each Topic of at least 1 page but no more than 2 pages.
The essays must be written as one document – not three separate ones. Clearly label each question with a short title that is relevant to the topic.
Grammar and mechanics count.
MLA format; Times New Roman 12 font
No research is required or expected. Use your textbook (https://openstax(dot)org/books/us-history/pages/1-introduction) and other materials.
Topics
1. What were the consequences of the religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
2. What were the various goals of the colonial European powers in the expansion of their empires? To what extent were they able to achieve these goals? Where did they fail?
3. How did the ideas of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening offer opposing outlooks to British Americans? What similarities were there between the two schools of thought?
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The 16th and 17th centuries’ religious uprisings’ consequences
The consequences of the 16th and 17th centuries’ religious upheavals profoundly impacted Europe and the wider world. The Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation reshaped the spiritual landscape across Europe and led to the emergence of new denominations, such as Lutheranism and Calvinism. The emergence of new denominations, in turn, resulted in religious wars and conflicts, such as the Thirty Years War, which was bloody and destructive. Religion also played a role in the colonization of the New World, as European powers sought to spread their religious beliefs to the native populations. Consequently, the native populations were often subject to religious persecution and discrimination.
The colonial European powers’ objectives in e...