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Rise and Fall of French Absolutism What did you learn from the images and descriptions about how image-makers "made" the Sun King? | ||
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( http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf/bnf0005.html ) | ||
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Versailles as a symbol of French Absolutism Assume you are a 17th-century French noble who has been invited to stay at Versailles for the season. Carry out a tour of the Palace and then write a letter home, describing what you saw and your thoughts about the symbols of absolutism. | ||
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( http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/ ) | ||
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The Execution of Charles I Using the two images and a contemporary newspaper account, compare the usefulness of images and texts as primary sources, and make inferences about this event from them. | ||
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( http://www.adelpha.com/~davidco/History/charles1.htm ) | ||
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( http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/core/pics/0253/img0001.jpg ) | ||
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( http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/portrait/charlesbeheaded.jpg ) | ||
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Images of the English Civil Wars Assume you are an illiterate Londoner during the Civil War era. What use could you make of these images to understand this event? | ||
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( http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app;jsessionid=9gsga87iqoqe?service=external/S... ) | ||
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A London newspaper, 1670s-90s How newsworthy were these early newspapers. (N.B. It was published by the king's government.) | ||
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( http://www.history.rochester.edu/London_Gazette/n-toc.htm ) | ||
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Glorious Revolution What was the Glorious Revolution, and how and why did it happen? | ||
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( http://www.lawsch.uga.edu/~glorious/chron.html ) | ||
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Bill of Rights What problems did the Bill of Rights address? What solution(s) did it present? What type of polity did it devise? | ||
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( http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/england.htm ) | ||
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School Life In Shakespeare’s England | ||
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( http://www.likesnail.org.uk/welcome-es.htm ) | ||
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