assignment 1:
Name: ______________________________________
Date: _______________________________________
DIRECTIONS: Choose Two of the following questions and write a thorough essay on each answering the question.. Do NOT plagiarize. Do NOT copy and past of the internet. This needs to be original work. Any form of cheating on this assignment will result in a zero for the assignment and could put you in jeopardy in this class. This also needs to be type-written. I will not accept this if it is hand-written.
1. What were the two models of European political development during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and what were the primary components of those models? What were the conditions under which each of these models tended to develop?
2. Compare and contrast the roles of Shah Abbas I and Akbar the Great in consolidating the power of the monarchy in their respective states. Did they have to contend with similar circumstances, such as ethnic and religious diversity? Was one ruler more successful than the other?
3. Compare and contrast the Ptolemaic and the Copernican systems. Are they different from a technical or a conceptual perspective? What are the philosophical and religious implications of embracing one or the other?
Date: _______________________________________
DIRECTIONS: Choose Two of the following questions and write a thorough essay on each answering the question.. Do NOT plagiarize. Do NOT copy and past of the internet. This needs to be original work. Any form of cheating on this assignment will result in a zero for the assignment and could put you in jeopardy in this class. This also needs to be type-written. I will not accept this if it is hand-written.
1. What were the two models of European political development during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and what were the primary components of those models? What were the conditions under which each of these models tended to develop?
2. Compare and contrast the roles of Shah Abbas I and Akbar the Great in consolidating the power of the monarchy in their respective states. Did they have to contend with similar circumstances, such as ethnic and religious diversity? Was one ruler more successful than the other?
3. Compare and contrast the Ptolemaic and the Copernican systems. Are they different from a technical or a conceptual perspective? What are the philosophical and religious implications of embracing one or the other?
