HIST 1003 Lecture : Week 2 Notes
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5 w"s who, what, where, when, why: english lived to be 91 years old, very bright and received an amazing education, fled the country and lived in france. Doesn"t matter: example: abortion no one can come to a conclusion on whether abortion should be legal or illegal so we should just choose someone to make the decision for everyone. As for example, upon the occasion of some strange and deformed birth, it shall not be decided by aristotle, or the philosophers, whether the same be a man or no, but by the laws. Catholics: england is a part of the uk. English civil wars (1642-1651: parliamentarians (roundheads) vs. royalists (cavaliers, thomas hobbes is writing his books during a time of internal turmoil, civil war results in the trial and execution of charles i in 1649. Oliver cromwell: leader of the parliamentary forces, becomes ruler of england, not very popular (banned christmas and card-playing, believed in an austere, calvinist religion.
