History 3 Questions

Abstract

The aim of the is to answer and to discuss three historical questions on the basis of the three literary sources used . The questions relate to the age of reformation and exploration

History 3 questions

Discuss the causes of the Protestant reformation . Which do you feel are the most important ? Why

The Protestant Reformation as such has given the rise to the protestant churches , simultaneously declining the role and weight of the catholic power . There are numerous causes , which have created the soil for the revolutionary movements in the

religious area at that time , and though it is possible to say that `causes of reformation cannot be located in any one event or in any one aspect of medieval society (Cameron , 1991 being a matter of both politics and religion , together with social discontent , it is still essential to look at the causes separately in to decide , which of them has been the most important and the determining factor in causing the Protestant Reformation

First of all , the causes of the Reformation should be looked for in the fourteenth century . The role of ecclesiastics in the civil life of people was becoming so prevailing at that time , that it could not but make some zealous personalities think about possibility of changing the status of Catholicism towards its being diminished . The ecclesiastical structure of the state bodies was no longer confined to performing ecclesiastical functions , but was rather spread onto all spheres of human life . Second , the abuses which have been noted in terms of clergy and people , especially what concerned the lowest level of scientific knowledge , had to be changed . Third , national consciousness has mostly been developed alien to church , with the desire of the state to control all possible aspects of national life . Fourth , with the growing influence of the Catholic Church , the rapid decrease in morality and rise of voluptuousness has proved Catholics to be unable to develop the religious structure of society (Cameron , 1991 ) The most important of these reasons has of course been the striving of the Church to interfere with all life activities possible at that time , leading to repeating collisions between Church and the secular State , which also wanted to control the same spheres of human life

What advice does Machiavelli give to a prince

The Prince is a unique writing , because is it mainly one large piece of advice given to Prince by the author as for how he may be able to acquire additional lands , and how he can control them it is understandable , that in the present time Machiavelli 's advice would not work , because the modernity is mostly ruled by laws , and not by wars but for the time in which it was written , The Prince was a very relevant work of art and philosophy

`Because how one ought to live is so far removed from how one lives that he who lets go of what is done for that which one ought to do sooner learns...