HISTORY OF ENGLAND
 History 211:  Topic 7
The Reign of Henry VII (1485-1509)
War and Reformation
(1509-1547)

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Identification Items
While reading Chapters 9-10 of your textbook, watch for the following items.  When you find the item in Chapters 9-10, identify the object or person and be able to discuss the importance of each item.   Customary tenant, copyholders,  Sir Thomas More, Utopia,  Company of the Merchant Adventurers, John Cabot, Elizabeth of York, Lambert, Simnel, Perkins Warbeck,
 Humanism, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Thomas Wolsey, Mary Tudor, Field of the Cloth of Gold, Elizabeth Barton, John Fisher, Pilgrimage of Grace,  Gerald Fitzgerald,  Sir Edward Poyning,  Sir Edward Neville,  Catherine of Aragon, Edward Stafford  (Duke of Buckingham), Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, William Tyndale, Catherine Howard, Katherine Parr,  Edward Seymour,  Anne Boleyn, Hampton Court,  Henry Fitzroy (Duke of Richmond), Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Cromwell, Reformation Parliament
Topics for Study
Each student will write two essays of their choice on the second exam.   The four essays below will appear as choices on the second exam.
1.  How did Henry VII solve his financial and political problems?  Was Henry VII the last of the medieval kings of England or the first modern king?  Why?
2.  Why did Henry VIII finally break with the Catholic Church?  What "new" religion did he establish and what were its basic precepts?  Did this solve the problem?  What new problems did his successor face as a result of Henry's move?
3.  What evidence is there for designating the Tudors as England's Welsh Dynasty?
4.  Was there a Tudor "revolution in government?"  Why or why not?
Reading Assignment
Clayton Roberts, David Roberts, Douglas R. Bisson,  Chapter 9-10
 

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