Lualdi Sources

Question 1

Summarize the Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina by Galileo.

Answer 1

Galileo discovered planets and people disliked my discovery because they thought it was unbiblical even though it wasn’t.

Question 2

Summarize the Trial of Suzanne Gaudry.

Answer 2

Gaudry confesses to being a witch twice, but the court decides she was influenced to confess. She’s sentenced to death after a doctor’s examination of a mark.

Question 3

Summarize Instruction and a Royal Ordinance by Jean-Baptiste Colbert.

Answer 3

Instructions dealing with the administration of the French Empire such as commerce, aid, and census work.

Question 4

Summarize The Trial of Charles I.

Answer 4

Both Charles and the Court claim to be the Highest in Authority. Charles refuses to answer questions and questions the Court’s Authority.

Question 5

Summarize The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes.

Answer 5

The Final End of Man is Survival and Living Contently. Man has a desire for power and is virtually equal in body and mind. Describes the Rights of Sovereign Institutions.

Question 6

Summarize The Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

Answer 6

Men are Free, Equal and Independent, and Must consent to Government for it to be lawful. Men give up freedom for protection of property. The Power of Society Never Goes Farther than Upholding the Common Good.

Question 7

Summarize The Revolt of Stenka Razin by Ludwig Fabitius.

Answer 7

Stendka Gathers Enough Serfs to Hang the Governor. Stenka slaughters the army that came to defeat him with the help of defectors. Stenka’s soldiers want to kill everyone except one.

Question 8

Summarize the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano By Himself.

Answer 8

Captured By Slave Traders and Other Slaves Tried to Comfort Him. He was Forced to Eat and Conditions Were Horrible. Auctioned at Barbados.

Question 9

Summarize A Brief Description of the Excellent Vertures of that Sober and wholesome Drink Called Coffee.

Answer 9

Alcohol is trash but Coffee is Great. Lays Out Rules of the Coffee house Which include no swearing or starting arguments or gambling. (So Micah isn’t allowed :P )

Question 10

Summarize Decrees and Statutes By Peter I.

Answer 10

Required Western Dress, Shaving Beards, Encourage Foreign Trade, Made it Easy to Start a Manufacturing Plant, and Made Monopolies Illegal.

Question 11

Summarize Letters Concerning the English Nation by Volitaire.

Answer 11

Destroys Locks Concept of Innate Ideas. The Notion That Matter is Incapable of Thinking is Thoroughly Disproven. Locke is how to support religion.

Question 12

Summarize Reflections Upon Marriage By Mary Astell.

Answer 12

Intent is the Public Good and the Rights of Women. Women have the right to leave bad husbands, and women are equal to men in nature. The way to affirm the truth is to affirm and prove that women are equal.

Question 13

Summarize Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Man by Rousseau.

Answer 13

There’s Natural and Moral/Political Inequality. Government is Completely Contractual. Different Forms of Government Have Different Levels of Inequality

Question 14

Summarize Journal of My Life by Jacques-Louis Menetra.

Answer 14

Valued Sensual Pleasure. He Believed the Church was Being Used as a Money Making Tool and Had Started to become Idol Worshipers. A Warden Responds that all those questions have to be believed and that people need to be kept ignorant.

Question 15

Summarize On Crimes & Punishments by Beccaria.

Answer 15

Men Have to Get Things Wrong a Ton Before They Get It Right. Laws That Come From the Interest of a Few Are Bad. Torture Just Sucks and Doesn’t Do Well in getting what we want.

Question 16

Summarize Political Testament by Frederick II.

Answer 16

The state’s goal is preserving its power and nobility are the pillars of the state and only one person can do that. The government should be tolerant of religious beliefs even if they’re all superstitious nonsense

Question 17

Summarize What is the Third estate by Abbe Sieves.

Answer 17

It does all the work of the nation to thrive and survive. Privileged Classes Have No Place in the Nation and Since They Don’t Do Much Only Form a Monopoly of Incompetence and Must be Neutralized

Question 18

Summarize the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Issued by the National Assembly.

Answer 18

Corruption has made us forget the rights of man. Men have equal rights and states should preserve these rights.

Question 19

Summarize the Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges.

Answer 19

Men need to be just and stop pressing women. Women are equal in nature and should be equal in the eyes of the law, in holding office, and in property matters.

Question 20

Summarize the Report on the Principles of Political Morality by Maxmillen Robespierre.

Answer 20

Goal is Peaceful Enjoyment of Liberty and Equality Based on Natural Law. We Need Democracy and Need Terror to Distribute Justice But it Needs to Be Tempered By Virtue.

Question 21

Summarize the Decree of General Liberty.

Answer 21

Men are Born and Remain Free in Equal Rights. Slavery is a terrible enterprise that hurts everyone. Slaves have some equal rights but more like the Black Codes.

Question 22

Summarize the Bramante Lazzary.

Answer 22

Unite in Enjoying the Liberty of France and Fight Against Spain.

Question 23

Summarize the Chronicle of And al-Rahman al Jabarti.

Answer 23

The French Take Cities and Send Out Notices From Napoleon. Attempts to Show Equality Among Egyptians Except By Reason.