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Noble, Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, 4e
Thomas F. X. Noble, University of Virginia
Barry S. Strauss, Cornell University
Duane J. Osheim, University of Virginia
Kristen B. Neuschel, Duke University
William B. Cohen, Indiana University
David D. Roberts, University of Georgia
Rachel G. Fuchs, Arizona State University
Chapter 15: Europe in the Age of Religious Wars, 1560 - 1648
Review Questions

  1. What triggered the "price revolution"? What effect did it have the various segments of European society?

  2. How might you explain the rise and decline of witchcraft allegations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Why were the majority of the accused women?

  3. What events and policies led to the revolt of the Netherlands? How did Spain respond to the revolt?

  4. How did the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre shape future sectarian conflict in France? Why did French Catholics and Protestants find it so difficult to reconcile?

  5. What sparked the Thirty Years' War? Why did the conflict widen?

  6. How did kings use drama and literature to express their power? What do such uses tell us about the nature of kingship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?



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