Practice Thesis Statements

 1. Analyze the ways in which European monarchs used both the arts and the sciences to
enhance state power in the period circa 1500–1800.

 2. Analyze the various Protestant views of the relationship between church and state in
the period circa 1500–1700.


The Protestant

 3. Analyze the various effects of the expansion of the Atlantic trade on the economy of
Western Europe in the period circa 1450–1700.

 4. Compare and contrast the economic factors responsible for the decline of Spain with
the economic factors responsible for the decline of the Dutch Republic by the end of
the seventeenth century.

 5. Analyze various ways in which the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) represented a
turning point in European history.


The Thirty Years' War represented a turning point in European history through the effects that it had on the countries involved; such as