Assignment:
Requirements
• Length: At least 600 words.
• MLA Format (See a sample MLA-formatted essay)
• Citations: Your essay must include a works cited page in MLA format with complete citations for each source you used. These sources must also be cited in the body of your paper in parenthetical references.
• Essay Structure: Your essay should have an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement as the last sentence in the paragraph, several well-organized supporting paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph that sums up the main points of your paper and demonstrates to your reader that the thesis has been proven.
• Quotations: Be sure that any and all text you have copied directly from a source is in quotation marks and is followed by a parenthetical reference. When you have paraphrased from a source, you must also use a parenthetical reference. Please limit your quoted material to 15% of the total word count of the paper. This means that the other 85% of your paper needs to be paraphrased from your sources or your own critical analysis.
Essay Topic
• What were the most important consequences of Luther's "Ninety-Five Theses"? What practices or institutions did he attack? To what classes of people did he mostly appeal?
• What European countries were hurt severely by religious wars? In which of these wars did foreign powers play an important role? How were these conflicts finally resolved?
• What were the goals of the politiques? How did they influence sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe?
• What were the original causes of the Thirty Years War? What complications prolonged the war? What were the results?
• Discuss the impact of the Reformation on modern life.