Unit 4- Political Centralization

"When kings the sword of justice first lay down, they are no kings though they possess the crown. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things. The good of subjects is the end of kings." - Daniel Defoe 

Textbook Reading Sections

Political Centralization – p 25- 26, p. 63- 66, p. 132-141 

Primary Readings

• The World Turned Upside Down p. 139

    The True Levellers Standard

    W.P. (gent) The Bloody Project (1648)

Secondary Readings 

• Early Controversy over Tobacco and Smoking p. 136

Outside Primary Readings

• King James I Defends Popular Recreation Against the Puritans

Supportive Secondary Documents

Why Elizabeth I Never Married. By: Warnicke, Retha, History Review, September 2010, Issue 67(CR1c)

Useful Links

The Thirty Years War

Wars of Religion

English Civil War

Potential Political Centralization FRQ Questions

• In what ways did the "new monarchs" of Europe continue to use religion as a tool for nation building during the age of Religious Wars?

• European monarchs of the late 15th and early 16th centuries were often referred to as "New Monarchs". What was "new" about them? Do their actions warrant this label?

• Analyze the ways in which both the theory and practice of monarchy evolved in England from the death of Elizabeth in 1603 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688-69.

• Describe and analyze the changes in the role of Parliament in English politics between the succession of James I and the Glorious Revolution

• In the 17th century, what political conditions accounted for the increased power of both the parliament in England and the monarch in France?

• Describe and analyze the changes in the role of Parliament in English politics between the succession of James I and the Glorious Revolution.