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European History DBQ!? help!?
So basically it would be great to get any help at all on the DBQ.
Using the following documents, identify and analyze at least three major reasons for the persecution of individuals as witches in Europe from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries.
[Historical setting: The witch craze lasted from about 1480 to 1700. This was the period of the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the consolidation of national governments. Witches were persecuted in most of Europe, but the trials were concentrated in southwestern Germany, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Poland, and parts of France. The total number of accused witches who were tried exceeded 100,000. Torture was used to extract confessions in many areas, but not in others; in England the trials were generally conducted without the use of torture.]
DOCUMENT GROUP A: THE TESTIMONY OF ACCUSED WITCHES AND EYEWITNESSES
(1) "Walpurga Hausmannin . . . has, upon kindly questioning and a
also torture' . . . confessed her witchcraft and admitted the following. When . . . she had become a widow, she cut corn for Hans Schlumperger.... Him she enticed with lewd speeches and gestures and they convened that they should . . . meet in her . . . dwelling, there to indulge in lustful intercourse .... [ But] it was not the said bondsman who appeared unto her, but the Evil One [the Devil] in the latter's guise .... He made her many promises to help her in her poverty and need, wherefore she surrendered herself to him body and soul .... For food she often had a good roast or an innocent child, which was also roasted, or a suckling pig .... [The Evil One] also compelled her to do away with and to kill young infants at birth .... This she did as follows .... A child of the Governor here . . . she had so infected with her salve that he died within three days .... Three years ago she had sucked out the blood of [citizen] Kung's child, a twin, so that it died.... She had also rubbed a s
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You need to include all (or at least most) of the documents to get any good help. What you should do on your own is to read through each document and see how it relates to the prompt. You will see that you will find similarities between some of the documents that will help you get your groups (each group will be a different reason for the persecution of individuals as witches). Once you figure out the main reasons, you can then construct your thesis and body paragraphs. You really just need to spend some quiet time analyzing the documents.
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