Ap Euro Kagan, Western Heritage 8th Edition. Ch. 9 and 10...

9/10 – 9/14 P.1 Neuman AP Euro Ch.9/10 Review Questions Kagan Western Heritage 8th edition Chapter 9 (1300-1527) 1. What were the underlying and precipitating causes of the Hundred Years’ War? What advantages did each side have? Why were the French able to drive the English almost entirely out of France? The first underlying and precipitating cause of the Hundred Years’ War was that England and France were too closely proximate emergent territorial powers. Another cause of the Hundred Years’ War was that Edward III of England was a vassal of Philip the Fair of France, and therefore held several sizeable French territories as fiefs. Also one of the underlying and precipitating causes of the Hundred Years’ was the quarrel between†¦show more content†¦How did the kings attack the church in this period? Contrast these events with ones in earlier ones in which the pope dominated rulers. The kings were able to control the church because the society had lost faith in the church due to the Black Death. Kings attacked the church by taxing them and controlling who the head clergy were. In older times there was no questioning of the church, so it was believed that if you prayed enough your ascension was inevitable, so if the king spoke up over the church then the church would excommunicate them and tell them they were going to hell. But when the Black Death struck, the first reaction was that if you prayed then you would be spared but that wasn’t the case because even some popes contracted the bubonic plagued. Faith was lost in the church. Chapter 10 1. Discuss Jacob Burkhardt’s interpretation of the Renaissance. What criticisms have been leveled against it? How would you define renaissance in the context of fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italy? Burkhardt’s interpretation of the renaissance implied that society was evolving in such a superior intellectual way that made Italians seem like a super race â€Å"full, whole nature of mankind† was achieved by the Italians, implying that no other race was too mediocrely advanced that they couldn’t even be called man. (In my opinion). Some of the criticisms of burkardt’s interpretation of the renaissance said that he overlooked the continuity