The Historical Context (the 1600s)

Question 1

What is the significance of:

Ptolemaic Universe

Answer 1

earth had been thought to be the center of the universe - Copernicus’s heliocentric model shattered this idea with his heliocentric model

Question 2

What is the significance of:

Charles II

Answer 2

English monarch 1660 - 1685.

Ends Commonwealth of England and the Interregnum

Question 3

What is the significance of:

The Great Plague of London

Answer 3

1665 the plague hits London killing a bunch of people

Question 4

What is the significance of:

The Great Fire of London

Answer 4

1666 - major fire engulfs the city center of London, leaving behind devastation and hope for better city planning

Question 5

What is the significance of:

Charles I

Answer 5

son of James I

believed in divine right

engaged in power struggles with Parliment

lost two civil wars, and was finally executed

Question 6

What is the significance of:

1649

Answer 6

unprecedented state sanctioned regicide!

beginning of the Interregnum.

England is now a republic - the Commonwealth of England