INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH HISTORY Instructor: Nguyen Duy Mong Ha‚ M.A. & M.Sc. USSH-VNU-HCMC Email: ndmongha@yahoo.de‚ ndmongha@gmail.com Mobile phone: 0919694811 Office hours: Monday afternoon‚ Block C‚ DTH Campus Content • Review of physical setting of British Civilization • The historical setting of British Civilization - Earliest times - The early middle ages - The middle middle ages - The late middle ages - The modern times 5 things you know & want to know about British history KNOW • • •
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Acts and Molasses Act. The Navigation Acts were acts were planned to promote the self-sufficiency of Great Britain by controlling colonial trade to England and reducing reliance on foreign investors. The first Navigation Act‚ instituted by Oliver Cromwell in 1651‚ targeted mostly at the Dutch‚ required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial ships. The Navigation Act of 1660 continued the policies made in the 1651 act and enumerated certain goods such as
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Letters exchange from The Jewish Question in Early Modern England and Examination of Rodrigo Lopez- A Summary Examination of Rodrigo Lopez Lopez was a Portuguese Jew who converted to Christianity and lived in England. He served as the Queen’s physician‚ and was accused of conspiring with Spanish civilians to murder the queen. He claimed that he was innocent and only cooperated with the Spanish in order to reveal their dangerous intentions. Lopez was found guilty nonetheless‚ and was
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Abigail Sullivan Mr. Petze WHAP D 24 December 2014 Chapter 16: Transformations in Europe 15501750 A.D. 1.) Describe what happened during the Protestant Reformation. Include a discussion of Martin Luther. The Protestant Reformation was caused due to a man named Martin Luther not agreeing with Pope Leo’s new technique in the Protestant church. Pope Leo was creating a new technique called “indulgences” that would raise funds for the basilica. “Indulgences” woul
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The book that I chose for my book report was “Lies My Teacher Told Me”‚ by James W. Loewen. At first‚ I thought this book would be the worse out of the 5 to read. I thought that I do not need some Book to tell me I am uneducated in American history. But after I read it‚ I realized that the book is much more than that. It is a critique on so many factors in our society. Only one is the student’s education. But it does not critique the American history student like I thought. If a student
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Parliament achieved the Petition of Rights and showed it had more power than the monarch and finally restored the order. (_________________citation) 2. Puritan Republic and then Military Dictatorship (1649-1658): Under the ruling of Oliver Cromwell known as Lord Protector in his second period (when he disbanned Parliament) 3. Constitutional Monarchy and Parliamentary Democracy: 1. Queen as the head of state. She exherts almost any power‚ her position is more like
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made Parliament wonder‚ did the Stuarts learn any thing from the Civil War?CharlesⅡ was the first monarch after the Civil War. When parliament decided that England needed a king‚ CharlesⅡ was called over from France where he had been hiding from Oliver Cromwells army. CharlesⅡ was a hide-away Catholic‚ because
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COMMENTARY OF ‘SECOND TREATISE OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT’: The previous fragment we’ve read belongs to the work of John Locke‚ ‘Second Treatise of Civil Government’‚ who published it anonymously in 1689. It is a work of political philosophy‚ in which Locke talks about civil society‚ natural rights and separation of powers. Locke was one of the first empirical philosophers and he believed that the human being was born with no knowledge‚ and that experience and observation were the base of all human wisdom
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Scotland has begun its road to independence since the 14th century. In 1314‚ the Scottish King‚ Robert Bruce‚ build strong armies. He used strategies and techniques and achieved a glorious victory at Bannockburn. As a result‚ England lost control over Scotland. In 1328‚ Scotland and England signed a peace treaty at Northampton‚ declaring Scotland as an independent country. Scotland became the first nation-state in Europe; however‚ English kings called themselves Scottish rulers. The country was completely
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independence from Great Britain. The Thirteen Colonies were part of the British Monarchy and the colonists had the same rights as any Englishmen. This was so because when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215‚ it gave power to the nobles. Then‚ Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector and ruled very poorly. After he died‚ his son ruled‚ and he did even worse than his father. He
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