New Ideas: Religion, Tradition, and Trade

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• Why did Montesquieu believe that the powers of republican government should be separated among different branches of government?
• What were Montesquieu's views on religious tolerance?
• What was the role of Montesquieu in the French Revolution?
• What did Cardinal Richelieu believe in? What groups were threatened by his ideas?
• Was Cardinal Richelieu the evil trickster that history paints?
• Compare the literary achievements of Boccaccio and Petrarch?
• How did Alessandro Volta discover methane gas?
• What purpose did the battery serve when it was invented in 1799? It was 74 years before the invention of the modern light bulb, so what was it used for?
• In what way did Donatello depict humanity in his sculpture, David?
• What effect did Moliere have on theater history?
• Moliere's Tartuffe was so controversial that the Catholic Church forced the King to ban it. What specifically was controversial about it?
• How did the Roman Catholic Church respond to the spread of Protestantism?
• Why did Charles V summon Martin Luther to trial?
• What are the Renaissance and Reformation greatest challenge to the established authority of the Catholic Church. What aspects of Renaissance and Reformation are contributing most significantly to undermining the authority of the Catholic Church ?
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• Can anyone summarize the Spanish Inquisition?
• What was the first language actually spoken in the Neolithic era? Into what languages did it eventually evolve?
• Why did the Shogun isolate Japan?
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• What religion spread from India throughout Southeast Asia?
• Where are Hindus concentrated?
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• How did Martin Luther change Christianity?
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• How did religion/ views on religion begin to change after the publication of Martin Luther's 95 Theses?
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