Essay Questions

Medieval History Section

Choose one of following to answer. Before beginning, make sure you have read and understood all the requirements described in the Section Exams and its associated links.

  1. Anglo-Dutch Wars
  2. Anti-Trinitarianism
  3. Arminianism
  4. Belgic Confession
  5. Bethlen, Gabor
  6. Borromeo, Carlo
  7. Breitenfeld (battle)
  8. Bucer, Martin
  9. Cardinal Richelieu
  10. Carlo Borromeo
  11. Catherine de' Medici
  12. Charles XII of Sweden
  13. Colbert
  14. Coligny, Gaspard de
  15. Colonna, Vittoria
  16. Edict of Nantes
  17. Fronde
  18. Fuggerei
  19. Great Northern War
  20. Grey, Lady Jane
  21. Gunpowder Plot
  22. Huttites
  23. Ivan the Terrible
  24. Jansenists
  25. Jesuits
  26. Lepanto, Battle of
  27. Magdeburg, Siege of
  28. Marguerite d'Angoulême
  29. Martin Bucer
  30. Mary, Queen of Scots
  31. Navarre
  32. Pascal, Blaise
  33. Pilgrimage of Grace
  34. Pavia, Battle of
  35. Popish Plot (1678)
  36. Rhodes, Siege of
  37. Savoy
  38. Sea Beggars
  39. Smithfield Fires
  40. Spanish Armada
  41. St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
  42. Starry Messenger
  43. Teresa of Avila, Saint
  44. Tulip Mania
  45. Ursulines
  46. Vienna, Siege of
  47. Vincent de Paul, Saint
  48. Wallenstein, Albrecht von
  49. Winter King