Early Modern European Readings and book titles

Question 1

Espionage reading: What were the 2 brothers trying to find in their tour of England?

Answer 1

Finding intelligence on silk and cotton factories in London

Question 2

Espionage reading: What topics did they delve into the factories?

Answer 2

Child workers and water power

Question 3

Diderot Encyclopedie: Why did Diderot want to use many authors?

Answer 3

Single author will not work. Collaboration is necessary to finish the Encyclopedie

Question 4

Diderot Encyclopedie: What important concept was proposed in backtracking and verifying information?

Answer 4

Cross references AKA footnotes

Question 5

Barbados Reading: What was it about?

Answer 5

Talked about how the plantation works and about the african slaves.

Question 6

Act Abolishing diversity in Opinions: What did Henry VIII propose?

Answer 6

Abolishing different Christian doctrines

Question 7

12 articles: What was the purpose or main demands?

Answer 7

Peasants economic and community rights

Question 8

Columbus’s Journal: What did Columbus do with Indigenous people’s at first?

Answer 8

Traded them glass beads

Question 9

Treaty of Tordesillas: What did it do?

Answer 9

Divided east and west of the world

Question 10

Montaigne, Essais, Cannibals: What was Montaigne really about?

Answer 10

It doesnt make sense to think we’re less savage than cannibals when we are straying away from nature

Question 11

What is the Leonardo Bruni’s Panegyric to the City of Florence? What does it argue? Why is it relevant to EME?

Answer 11

A Humanist book. It argues Florence is a republican achievement in the arts while Milan suffers under a tyrant

Question 12

What is Ferdinand’s Edict of Restitution? What does it do?

Answer 12

The Edict returned to the Catholics any land that had become Protestant under the Peace of Augsburg