Exam Questions: Conquest, Union and Identity: Wales, 1200-1800, Study notes of History

Download Exam Questions: Conquest, Union and Identity: Wales, 1200-1800 and more Study notes History in PDF only on Docsity! ARHOLIADAU 2010 EXAMINATIONS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND WELSH HISTORY MODULE WH11120: Conquest, Union and Identity: Wales, 1200-1800 Time allowed: TWO hours Answer TWO questions 1. When was ‘Wales’? 2. Did the failure of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd’s rebellion have more to do with his own personal weaknesses than the strength of the English crown? 3. Why was there so little opposition to the conquest of Wales in 1282? 4. Did Owain Glyndwr have a realistic vision for an independent Wales? 5. Why did the myth of the mab darogan prove so resilient in late medieval Wales? 6. How effective were the Acts of Union of 1536 and 1543? 7. Why was the Welsh reaction to Protestantism so lukewarm? 8. Was the Welsh language saved by the publication of William Morgan’s translation of the Bible in 1588? 9. To what extent did the English Civil War pass Wales by? 10. Did the Reformation come of age in Wales with the birth of Methodism? 11. Why should historians take Iolo Morganwg seriously? 12. Why was political radicalism so unattractive to the majority of people in late eighteenth century Wales.