Download David FRQ# 5, 6, 7 Prompt: Compare and contrast the economic

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FRQ# 5, 6, 7
Prompt: Compare and contrast the economic factors responsible for the decline of Spain with the
economic factors for the decline of the dutch republic by the end of the seventeenth century.
Category: European exploration, Economy, and conquest
Factual Information:
● This was during the time when the western colonization started in America.
● During the late 1400s to 1700s
● The main reason why the Europeans came to the “New World” was God, Glory, and
Gold.
Topic sentence 1: The Spanish great incline in military, and competition with other countries in
the “New World” was a cause for the spanish economic declination.
Category: Military
Factual Information:
● There were about 200,000 immigrants from spain but most of them were soldiers.
● Portugal's had cannons on their ships which leads them a to an sea advantage because this
was the first attempt to mount weapons on a ship.
● The spanish had the largest amount of land in the “New World”.
Topic Sentence 2: A main cause for the Dutch economy to decline was the war with france and
England.
Category: Economics
Factual Information:
● The English utilized the dutch wealth in the fight against Louis XIV.
● The Dutch had a very well growing economy and the unskilled laborers had ate well
because of the Dutch economy.
● The Dutch had lots of imports on spices and silks to Europe.
Topic Sentence 3: Both the Dutch and the Spanish had a big role in the “Global Economy”
Category: Economics,and colonizations
Factual Information:
● Spain started the global economy because of the fast colonization in Asia as well as
America.
● The Dutch when it became independent it too became big fast, which caused them to get
a rich economy fast.
Prompt 2: Analyze Various ways in which the thirty years war (1618-1648) represented a turning
point in European history.
Category: Religious issues between Protestants and Catholics.
Factual Information:
● It was splitted up into 4 periods (bohemian, Danish, swedish, and the french period).
● The main conflict in the start of the thirty years war was religious rights.
● The war started after when the catholic council members of Bohemian were thrown out
of the windows and landing in manure. This was known as Defenestration of Prague.
Topic Sentence 1: The Calvin religion and their fear of losing their rights is what started the war
because of Catholics suppressing them.
Category: Religion Rights
Factual Information:
● Calvinism, Lutheranism, and Catholicism had many issues between each otjher (mostly
Calvinism and Lutheranism versus the Catholics.)
● The Calvins feared in losing their rights so they pushed a couple of Catholic council
members out of a window.
● This started the Bohemian Period from 1618 to 1625.
Topic Sentence 2: The thirty years war had many Lutheran uprising after the calvins uprising
against the Holy Roman Empire.
Category: Religion, and support of the Protestants
Factual Information:
● The Danish period joined into the Bohemian period during 1625 to 1629.
● The Danish were Lutherans who supported the calvins during the the Bohemian period.
● The Swedish were also in this during their period 1630 to 1635.
● Although The Holy Roman Empire was constantly attacked by protestants they were
winning constant victories.
Topic Sentence 3: Near the end of the Thirty years war the French joined in to weaken the power
of the Hapsburgs.
Category: Suppression of the Germans and the Habsburg.
Factual Information:
● The french period was between 1635 to 1648
● There was an secret treaty that was about to be made between the French and the
Swedish, but the swedish Ruler was assassinated.
Prompt 3: Analyze How Galileo, Descartes, and Newton altered traditional interpretations of
nature and challenged traditional sources of knowledge
Category: Scientific thinking and new views on religion
Factual Information:
● This was the time period of the scientific revolution era.
● The view of the Aristotelian Universe was challenged by many scientists and a new view
of the Universe was made.
Topic Sentence 1: The new view on the Universe and the Copernican Hypothesis brought a new
view to people on god and how the Universe worked.
Category: New religious views
Factual Information:
● The people in the past used to believe that the Earth was the center of the universe.
● Brahe and Galileo both believed that the sun was the center of the solar system and every
planet revolves around it except the moon which revolves around the Earth.
● The Copernican Hypothesis believed that God made the universe like a clock that works
itself constantly without the help of needing to rewind it.
Topic Sentence 2: There were some books from the scientists that were banned because of their
scientific belief.
Category: Religious issues
Factual Information:
● The Catholic church were upset in what scientists believed in by the theory of the Earth
was not the center of the universe.
● Some of the books were banned by the church for the reason of the new view on the
universe.
Topic Sentence 3: New inventions were made for observations of the stares and other theories.
Category: scientific inventions, and new theories
Factual Information:
● The Experimental method was made by Galileo to improve scientific research.
● Telescope were made to observe the stars, Galileo used one to observe the moon and
painted a picture of a moon to describe what the moon looks like.
● Isaac Newton made the Law of Universal Gravitation which according to that law every
body in the universe attracts every other body in the universe in mathematical
relationships.