History

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1. Choose to discuss either the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the English East India Company, or the Muscovy Company. Using your notes and quotes from lecture, discuss how this company helped their state strengthen trade with a particular Asian empire. Again, be as specific as possible. Answer in 4-7 sentences.

2. Discuss factors that prevented the English from developing the kind of absolutist rule that they saw materializing in France. In other words, why did absolutism fail in England? Provide an example of a king or queen who failed to achieve absolute power in England, and explain why. Make sure to provide details. Answer in 4-7 sentences.

3. Discuss the similarities between the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, and the Declaration of Human Rights. What principles do they claim to uphold, and how do they make the case for rights? Make sure to be as specific as possible. Answer in 4-7 sentences.

4. Discuss this image and what it represents politically. Then compare how the Abbe Sieyes’ arguments in his “What is the Third Estate” supports the message of this image. Answer in 4-7 sentences.