Workshop no.

2
The reformation
21 October 2021
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Departamento de Sociales Alana Sofia Paternina, Isabela Murcia.

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Curso 8º
x % Ejercicio Nota
Investigar el mundo X 10 1
Comunicar ideas
Reconocer perspectivas x 10 2, 3
Tomar acción

1. Complete the blank map:

a. Identify and paint the political boundaries of Portugal, Spain, France, the Holy Roman Empire, the Papal States,
Poland and Lithuania, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, England, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Iceland, and Norway in
the year 1600.
b. Mark the location of the Mediterranean, Baltic, North, Adriatic, and Black seas. Also, the Atlantic Ocean.
c. Locate the cities of Rome, Naples, Trent, Augsburg, Worms, London, Madrid, Lisbon, Paris, Warsaw, and
Wittenberg.
d. Identify what religion was dominant in each place and colour it. Include the Lutheran, Calvinist, Roman Catholic,
Orthodox and Muslims.
e. Give the map a title, orientation indicators, and create a key box (legend) for the colours of each religion.
2. Research and explain:
a. Why might a person argue that the Peace of Augsburg only set the stage for the bloody Thirty Years´ War?
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As we know, the Peace of Ausburg was a treaty between the Schmalkaldic League and Charles V
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signed by 155in order to end the religious struggles between the two "groups" and granted
recognition to Lutheranism and to Roman Catholicism. This seems to be a very good thing, but
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why would someone think this agreement was one of the causes of the thirty years war? Well, by
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doing this, the empire was divided into Lutheran and catholic states, though this treaty still
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considered Calvinism and some other Reformed faiths as heresy and were not recognized, so it
created a lot of protestants and even if the treaty solved temporary some hostilities, there was still
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tension between the Catholics and protestants. Insight of this It started to grow an Intolerance
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towards the Calvinists so Emperor Ferdinand II attempted to impose Roman Catholicism on his
domains, starting the thirty years war, were the protestants rose into a rebellion.
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 3. Analyze perspectives.
a. Identify three historical trues and three Hollywood lies about the movie.

Reality Fiction
1. Anne Boleyn had a daughter who she named 1. Mary Boleyn never had a kid with king, just with
Elizabeth. husband, William.

2. Anne was beheaded by false charges of icest,
adultery, among others.
3. Whene the King Henry VIII went to the Boleyn's
kingdom he was still married with Catherine
2. George Boleyn was killed, in company with other
4 men who also were accused of sleeping with
Anne without proof but before he was killed he gave a very
long speech.
3. In the movie, Mary was the younger sister but
actually, Anne was 2 years younger than her.

b. Write a short essay: To what extent a Hollywood movie is a secondary source for history. Answer the
question by giving movie examples.
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There are a lot of Holywood movies that have the purpose of teaching history and they achieve this in a very good
way, but of course, there are some mistakes that can be somewhat far away from reality and can cause
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misinformation on certain topics. Movies like "The Pianist", "Braveheart", "Hacksaw Ridge" and "The other Boleyn
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girl" are some of Hollywood's movies that are based on real events and the lives of real people. For now, we will be
focusing on the movie "The other Boleyn girl" movie that can show us a lot about how Anne Boleyn made her way
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to the throne but failed in having a long-lasting monarchy and giving the king a male heir. Sadly this movie is not as
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accurate as we wished, there are several errors committed that show us a different version of the reality, like the fact
that the image we had of Mary, in the beginning, was of a kind and shy woman but in reality, before Mary started her
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affair with King Henry VII, she was in a passionate relationship with King Francis I while he was already married.
Another mistaken fact about Mary Boleyn's life is that she did marry a man before Anne but he did not leave her for
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the sake of a better work opportunity that king Thomas Boleyn had given to him in order to let Mary seduce the
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king, but because of his death due to a sweating sickness. Another mistake they did in the movie was the plotting
that Thomas Boleyn, his wife Elizabeth, and her brother the Duke of Norfolk made to convince the girls into
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seducing the king. There is no evidence this had occurred and in fact, Thomas was in disagreement with the
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relationships his daughters kept with the King. Lastly in this small list of their imprecision, at the end of the movie,
they talk about how the daughter of Anne, Elizabeth became the ruler of England, but they don't mention anything
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else about Mary, the daughter of Catherine of Aragon, she worked hard in a failed attempt to return England to
Catholicism, and as a result, nearly 300 Protestants were burned at the stake. Aside from these and other small
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mistakes, this movie shows us the overall situation Anne was passing through and what were the reasons for Henry
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VII to break his Catholic ties with the church, event which led to the reformation. They show us how Catherine of
Aragon fails in having a male child and how in the first wedding celebration of Mary, King Henry VII lays his eyes
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on her and starts their love affair and later falls in love with her sister Anne Boleyn who refuses to be her mistress
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unless he gets divorced of Catherine. Finally, she bares a girl and loses her second kid, a situation that makes her
think about having a secrete child to replace the one that had died as a fetus, with her brother who refuses to do this.
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Later on, both of them get accused by rumors about them vomiting incest and are finally decapitated. This is the
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main information about the historical event, and are well presented in the movie the things that they missed the most
were details of their lives.
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In conclusion, Hollywood movies definitely can be a secondary source to learn about history, but just in an
abbreviated way where a lot of details can be missing or are not accurate, this type of movies should be used to have
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a general and nonspecific knowledge about the matter. If you would like to have a long-windedly understanding of
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the theme, movies couldn't be a very useful source for you.