536516431 | Castiglione | -Italien courtier
-Wrote the Courtier which explained how to be a gentleman
-believed upperclassmen should be jack of all trades | |
536516432 | Christian Humanists | -people who took humanism and applied it to religion
-instead of going back to look at Greco-Roman ideas they went back to the scriptures and the early church
-happened during the northern renaissance
-changed how people viewed religion | |
536516433 | Court of Star Chamber | -court of the renaissance
-used controversial ways of obtaining information
- allowed equality in the court of law | |
536516434 | Leonardo da Vinci | -the first renaissance man
-Scientist, artist, architect, inventor
-Mona Lisa, Virtruvian Man
- Genius | |
536516435 | Donatello | -florentine Sculptor
- used balance, self awareness, and human diversity in his sculptures
-Humanism: portrayed people in a Greco-Roman style
-Individualism: personalities in his sculptures
- non religious | |
536516436 | Erasmus | -Northern Christian Humanist
- Adressed problems in the Catholic Church
- believed to fix the church leaders had to be fixed
-inspired many influential people like Martin Luther | |
536516437 | Ferdinand and Isabella | -Rulers of Aragona and Castile respective
-marriage united the kingdoms and they conquered much of spain
-made Catholicism the religion and forced Jews and Muslims out | |
536516438 | Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) | -The most corrupt popes in history
-gained the Papacy through bribes and deception
-with help from his son he conquered the Papal States
-Very Large Patron of the Arts | |
536516439 | Gutenberg | -German man who invented printing press
-allowed info to become widespread
-increased literacy in Europe | |
536516440 | Humanism | - when people go back to look at classics to understand human nature
-increased education
-encouraged individualism | |
536516441 | Inquisition | -led by Ferdinand and Isabella
-sought out Jewish converts and punished them if they held on to Jewish principals
-proved the church still had influence | |
536516442 | Isabella d'Este | -cultural and political leader in Milan
-Fashion icon
-convinced King Louis not to conquer Mantua
-Saved 200 refugees from Milan
-EDUCATED | |
536516443 | Jacob Burkhardt | -Swiss historian
-First person to label the renaissance the Renaissance
--concluded that middle ages was dominated by Theology and renaissance was ruled by rationalism | |
536516444 | Jan Van Eyk | -Flemish painter during the renaissance
-paintings were religious
-perfected oil based paintings used detail and realism | |
536516445 | Peter Brueghel, the elder | -renaissance painter known for large landscapes and lives of peasants
-some paintings merged humanism and Christianity
-celebrated the world in a secular way | |
536516446 | The Medici Family | -dominated florence in the 14th and 15th centuries
-controlled elections and officials
-used banking to become even more wealthy
-strong patrons of art and architecture | |
536516447 | Niccolo Machiavelli | -Florentine Bureaucrat during the renaissance
-wrote the political treatise the Prince
-talked about how to gain and maintain power using and ends justify the means view | |
536516448 | Michelangelo | -Italian architect, sculptor, painter during the renaissance
- sculpted David, and designed the dome on Saint Peter's
-painted the Sistine Chapel | |
536516449 | Tomas More | -Lawyer and Christian Humanist during the Northern Renaissance
-Wrote Utopia and was the first to describe Utopia as a perfect society
-councilor to King Henry VIII of england, and was lord Chancellor | |
536516450 | Northern Renaissance | -stemmed from the Italian Renaissance
-Combined Humanism and Individualism with Christianity
-thinkers of the northern renaissance pushed for social reform | |
536516451 | Fugger Family | -wealth and powerful German family in the 15th and 16th century
-made $ through banking and international trade
-owned a lot of property | |
536516452 | Frank Petrarch | -Florentine humanist during the renaissance
-Father of Humanism
-made people realize they were living in a new great era, separate from the middle ages or the Dark Ages as he called it | |
536516453 | Raphael Sanzio | -Italien painter during the Renaissance
-created a school for young artist
- created the School at Athens
- his works show the changing artistic style | |
536516454 | Renaissance | -rebirth of art, culture, and intellect started in Italy
-beginning of Humanism, Secularism, and Individualism
-change in art music and literature | |
536516455 | Secularism | -people of the renaissance became more concerned with the matieral world
-main concern was present life on earth contrary to the middle ages which was the opposite
- | |
536516456 | The Papal States | -one of the 5 powers of the Italian Peninsula during the renaissance
-unified by Rodrigo Borgia and his son Cesare | |
536516457 | War of the Roses | -English civil wars between houses York and Lancaster from 1455-1471
-Yorks were white roses Lancaster's were red roses
- hurt trade aggriculture and production
-the York Edward III ended it and began to reconstruct the monarchy | |
536516458 | Mannerism | -artistic style used by Michelangelo and Titan
-distorted figures, exaggerated masculinity, and heightened color
-considered negative for a while as people liked realism | |
536516459 | Cesare Borgia | -son of Pope Alex VI and made gonfaloniere
-a cruel leader and a liar
Italy was scared of him, and when his dad died they wanted revenge on him | |
536516460 | William Shakespeare | -popular writer in England during the Renaissance
-incorporated humanism, and individualism into his work
-had a superior understanding of the wester world and language, as well as the human condition | |
536516461 | Indulgences | - a document signed by a church official that you could buy in place of penance
-you could buy your way into heaven | |
536516462 | Diet of Worms | -an assembly of the Holy Roman Empire called by Charles V
-Here Luther was asked to recant his opinions
-He refused | |
536516463 | Martin Luther | - Augustinian friar, monk, and professor
-wrote the 95 theses
-attacked the corruption of the Catholic Church
- ignited the reformation | |
536516464 | Ulrich Zwingli | -Swiss Humanist, priest, and Protestant
-believed in the sole authority of the scriptures
-helped to turn Zurich into a Theocracy | |
536516465 | Anabaptists | -left wing protestants
-believed only on adult baptism
-hated by Catholics and other Protestants | |
536516466 | Peasants' Revolt of 1525 | -peasants revolted against secular leaders
-interpreted Luther's ideas and believed he meant total freedom when he meant spiritual freedom
-Luther sympathized with the peasants but agreed with nobility | |
536516467 | Charles V | -gained a great amount of land very quickly at a young age from a series of deaths
-devout Catholic and didn't want to sign the Augsburg Confession but he was forced to
-dived up his land between his bro and son and left | |
536516468 | Peace of Augsburg | -Charles V officially recognized Lutheranism in1555
-North Germany became Protestant while the south stayed Catholic
-power was taken away from the Church and given to Land rulers, and religious wars were ended in Germany | |
536516469 | Mennonites Quakers Unitarians | -divisions of Anabaptism
-Mennonites believed that faith comes from the scriptures
-Quakers believed in waiting for God rather than following a corrupt church
-Unitarians rejected the trinity | |
536516470 | Henry VIII | -Second of the Tudor Dynasty and a super Catholic
-Wanted an annulment because his wife couldn't give him a son
-broke away from the Catholic Church and started the Church of England to do this | |
536516471 | Supremacy Act | -Stated that the King was the head of the English Church
-rejected Papal Authority and rearranged Church Power
-led to conflicts between Church and State | |
536516472 | Mary Tudor | - daughter of Henry VIII ruled from 1553-1558
-restored Catholicism in England
-called Bloody Mary because of how she killed Protestants | |
536516473 | Puritans | -protestants who wanted to Purify the English Church from Catholic ways
- focused on preaching and independent Churches | |
536516474 | Queen Elizabeth I | -daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
-Queen of England from 1564-1603 and was the Virgin Queen
-United the Church of England by accepting Protestants and Catholics | |
536516475 | John Calvin | -Created Calvinism which was a strict form of Lutheranism
-Theocracy in Geneva
-Had the greatest effect on the reformation | |
536516476 | Geneva | -the city that was a church
-theocracy dominated by Calvinism
-Central Hub of Calvinism | |
536516477 | John Knox | -Scottish man who persuaded the parliament to allow a State Church
-created Presbyterianism as the state religion
-based off of Calvinism | |
536516478 | Index of Prohibited Books | -list of mostly religious books banned byPope Julius III
-worked in the Papal States but had little effect elsewhere
-showed that the Catholic Church was reforming | |
536516479 | Catholic (Counter) Reformation | -Pope Julius III tried to raise moral and educational standards of the church
-Catholic Church made a comeback
-tried to destroy the corruption of the Church | |
536516480 | Council of Trent | -goals were to reconcile with protestants which didn't happen
-reaffirmed Catholic doctrine
-started the Catholic Reformation
Initiated by Pope Julius III | |
536516481 | Jesuits | -Catholic Society for men
-tried to educate and train Priests | |
536516482 | Spanish and Italien Inquisitions | -Spanish inquisition tried to convert Muslims to Christianity
-Italian inquisitions accused Jews of killing Christ and put them in Ghettos
-initiated by Pope Paul IV | |
536516483 | Huguenots | -French Calvinists
-set up their own schools, towns, and churches
-lots of conflict between them and Catholics | |
536516484 | St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre | -Occurred at the wedding of Henry of Navarre, which was supposed to unite the Huguenots and Catholics
-led to a civil war where 70,000 protestants were killed | |
536516485 | Politiques | -moderates of both Calvinism and Catholicism in France
-believed that only a strong monarchy could save France
-they saved France | |
536516486 | Henry IV | -also called Henry of Navarre was a Politique who became king of France of Henry III was assassinated
-set aside religious principals for politics which saved France
-Published the Edict of Nantes | |
536516487 | Edict of Nantes | -a document published by Henry IV
-allowed Huguenots to practice freely in 150 towns
-restored internal peace to France | |
536516488 | Philip II | -Spanish King son of Charles V who controlled Spain, Naples Sicily, and Portugal
-was raised a devout Catholic and hated protestantism
-couldn't stop the revolts in the Netherlands | |
536516489 | Presbyterianism | -branch of Protestantism with a Calvinism doctrine
-developed in Scotland by John Knox
-had ministers instead of bishops
-state church and members had close ties to Puritans | |
536516490 | Pilgrimage of Grace | -Multi Class rebellion in England
-angry over King Henry VIII's split from the Catholic Church, and dissolution of the Monastaries | |
536516491 | Sulieman I | -Sultan of the Ottoman Turks
-defeated the hungarians
-controlled sea trade in the eastern Mediterranean | |
536516492 | Prince Henry the Navigator | -Prince of Portugal
-Finically supported many over seas expeditions
-huge patron of exploration | |
536516493 | Christopher Columbus | -explorer who sailed for Spain
-"discovered" America
-believed he had discovered the Indies | |
536516494 | Vasco de Gama | -found a sea route to India from the east coast of Africa
-set up trade routes but did not set up alliances | |
536516495 | Ferdinand Magellan | -Portuguese mariner
-first to circumnavigate the world
-crossed the Pacific
-helped people get an accurate sense of the size of the world | |
536516496 | Francisco Pizarro | -Spanish conquistador
-Conquered the Inca's
-his conquering of the Inca's helped set up new relations between the Old and New Worlds | |
536516497 | Hernando Cortes | -Spanish Conquistador
-conquered the Aztecs
-conquered Mexico | |
536516498 | Amerigo Vespucci | -Florentine explorer
-first to recognize that the New World was a separate continent
-America is named for him | |
536516499 | Francis Drake | -English explorer during the reign of Elizabeth I
-known for plundering and looting the Spanish which caused tension | |
536516500 | Encomienda System | -a right given by the Spanish crown to explorers
- allowed them to force natives to work for free
-essentially legalized slavery | |
536516501 | Bartolome e Las Casas | -Spanish colonist against the cruelty toward amerindians
-became a friar
-tried unsuccessfully to establish a safe place for amerindians | |
536516502 | Columbian Exchange | -series of items traded between the Old and New worlds purposely and accidentally
-created trade between America Europe and Asia | |
536516503 | Price Revolution | -high inflation rate across Europe
-caused by the sharp rise in population
-demand for goods could not be met so prices increased | |
536516504 | Spanish Armada | -Spanish Navy
-Very Strong
-Sailed to England because Elizabeth was supporting reforms
-Defeated | |
536516505 | Treaty of Tordesillas | -an imaginary line used to settle disputes of territory between Spain and Portugal
-Spain got everything to the west
-Portugal got everything to the east | |
536516506 | Thomas Hobbes | -English philosopher with a pessimistic view of human nature
-wrote Leviathan in which he described the need for an absolute ruler
-put pressure on Rulers to become absolute rulers | |
536516507 | Duke of Sully | -French Calvinist
-Helped Henry IV establish the foundation of economic growth in France
-taxed many things
-helped France recover after many Religious wars | |
536516508 | Parlements | -small judicial bodies in France
-made all of the decisions and how quite a bit of power
-Louis XIV took power away from them | |
536516509 | Cardinal Richelieu | -French politique
-became president of the council of ministers
-came up with the intendant system
-put power above all else
-laid foundation for absolutism in France | |
536516510 | Intendants | -French middle class and Royal Officers
-worked in different French provinces
-centralized King's power by reducing the noble's
-appointed by Richelieu, and collected taxes | |
536516511 | Cardinal Mazarin | -minister of France after Richelieu
-increased taxes which led to the Fronde
-made France the most powerful monarchy
-completed Richelieu's goals | |
536516512 | Fronde | -protest in France
-People revolted against the increased level of taxation
- Started by nobles of the robe
-inspired King Louis XIV's hatred of the Nobles | |
536516513 | Jean Baptiste-Colbert | -French politician
-worked as the minister of finances under the rule of Louis XIV
-worked hard and saved them from bankruptcy | |
536516514 | Peace of Utrecht | -maintained the balance of power in Europe
-ended Louis XIV's expansions
-France and Spain could never unite
-throne of Spain was given to Louis XIV's grandson | |
536516515 | Baroque | -new artistic style during the 1600's in Europe
- used exaggerated motion to show emotion
-used to glorify the chuch | |
536516516 | Versailles | -elegant mansion of King Louis Louis XIV
-pleasure prison for nobles who they could be kept in check, they had to follow strict rules
-center of political, cultural, and social life of Europe
-represented Louis' power | |
536516517 | Petition of Right | -formed by English Parliament member in response to Charles I trying to claim absolute monarchy
-stated that the King was not above the law and PArliament still had power
-led to the English civil war and the death of Charles I
-laid the foundations for a constitutional monarchy | |
536516518 | Oliver Cromwell | -leader of the New Model Army
-claimed power as Protectorate after his forces killed Charles I
-inserted his rump parliament into power
-essentially a Military dictator | |
536516519 | James II | -Catholic son of Charles II
-English king who tried to reestablish Catholicism
- was forced out and fled to France during the glorious revolution | |
536516520 | William and Mary | -joint sovereigns who replaced James II during the glorious revolution
-them accepting this role showed that parliament had power
-there were strings attached like the bill of rights
-constitutionnel monarchy | |
536516521 | Glorious Revolution | -1688 Parliament replaced James II with William and Mary
-established a constitutional monarchy and bill of rights
-Monarchy lost power | |
536516522 | John Locke | -stated that it was the government's duty to protect life liberty and property
-stated that any Monarch who became a tyrant the people could rebel
-wrote the treatise for the Glorious Revolution | |
536516523 | Whigs | -parliamentary party opposed to absolutism
-overthrew James II
-Protestants | |
536516524 | Tories | -parliamentary party who opposed the whigs
-believed in the old system of selecting monarchs
-absolutism | |
536516525 | Dutch East India Company | -a large Dutch monopoly used to secure their trading in the Indian Ocean
-State within a State
-helped the Dutch claim independence from Spain
-joint stock company | |
536516526 | Albrecht Von Wallenstien | -Protestant Bohemian mercenary
-fought for the Hapsburg's in the thirty years war
-won many battles against protestant armies | |
536516527 | Gustavus Adolphus | -King of Sweden during the 30 years war
-provided key force in the second stage of the war for the protestants
-died in battle | |
536516528 | Peace of Westphalia | -ended the thirty years war and ended religious wars in Europe
-brought about modern times
-reestablished the peace of Augsburg adding Calvinism
-disunited the HRE | |
536516529 | Junkers | -the nobles and landowning class in Brandenburg and Prussia
-gave political power away for total control over peasants and exempt from taxes
-their submission allowed Prussia to be united | |
536516530 | Frederick William | -King of Prussia
-Showed absolutist tendencies by eliminating local government
-created a military state that was one of the strongest in Europe | |
536516531 | Ivan the Terrible | -first Tsar of Russia
-believed in divine right of kings
-brutal paranoid
-hated the nobles | |
536516532 | Michael Romanov | -grandnephew of Ivan the Terrible
-ascended to the throne while they were at war with Sweden and Poland
-Successfully endend the wars with the Peace of Stolbovo and the Treaty of Deulino | |
536516533 | St. Petersburg | -Capitol of Russia founded by Peter the Great
-center of Russian Culture and a port city
-Nobles were forced to live here | |
536516534 | Act of Union | -two acts between Scotland and England
-united the two countries into Great Britton | |
536516535 | Aristotelean Universe | -Middle Age View
-Fit the Religion
-10 Spheres where Earth is at the center
-Heaven Above Hell Below
-Four Imperfect elements | |
536516536 | Copernicus | -Polish Clergyman and Astronomer
-Believed that the sun was at the center of the universe
-His hypothesis was proven correct by Johannes Kepler
-Challenged religion | |
536516537 | Tyco Brahe | -built an observatory
-studied the stars for 20 years
-his work proved the Copernican theory but he didn't accept it | |
536516538 | Johannes Kepler | -assistant of Brahe
-proved mathematically the theory of Copernicus
-wrote the three laws of planetary motion that we still use | |
536516539 | Galileo | -Italian scientist
-improved the telescope, compass, copernican Ideas
-came up with the law of inertia
-his ideas challenged the church's authority
-was put under house arrest | |
536516540 | Sir Isaac Newton | -synthesized the work of Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler
-deism
-created on theory to explain the order of the universe | |
536516541 | Francis Bacon | -scientist who helped to develop an early version of our scientific method
-advocated only for inductive reasoning and experimentation
-rejected the medieval view of the world | |
536516542 | Rene Descartes | -influential scientist
-used deductive reasoning and logic
-helped develop an early version of the scientific method | |
536516543 | Rationalism | -to prove something you need evidence and a reason
-faith or religion is not enough
-key concept of the enlightenment | |
536516544 | Inductive reasoning vs. Deductive reasoning | -inductive= using facts and experiments
-deductive= using logic and basic knowledge
-both are used in the scientific method | |
536516545 | Deism | -belief that God created the universe but doesn't meddle in it
-many philosophes believed this | |
536516546 | Utilitarianism | -ethical doctrine sating that decisions are only good if they benefit the majority
-things are measured by happiness
-small groups are unhappy | |
536516547 | Philosophes | -Usually French men who formed the foundations of the enlightenment
-advocated for the use of reason and logic rather than religion
-advocated for political and economic change | |
536516548 | Classical Liberalism | -political ideology that advocated for civil liberties and political freedom
-limited government
-prioritized economic freedom | |
536516549 | Baron de Montesquieu | -philosophe who believed that government should be separated into 3 branches | |
536516550 | Francois Voltaire | -French philosophe who advocated for reason
-hated organized religion
-inspired American and French Revolution | |
536516551 | Encyclopedia | -written by Denis Diderot
-made up of articles trying to get people to make their own choices
-banned in France Banned by the Pope | |
536516552 | Denis Diderot | -began as a hack writer
-his writing made fun of the church
-his writings were often burnt
-wrote the encyclopedia | |
536516553 | David Hume | -Scottish Intellectual who was a religious skeptic
-Agreed with John Locke that humans could not understand non-physical happenings | |
536516554 | Salons | -private drawing rooms where wealthy Parisian women would have intellectual discussions with aristocrats
-men were usually the ones talking
-gave women a place of importance | |
536516555 | Rococo | - a popular artistic style developed by elite European women
-used soft pastels, details, and starry eyed lovers
-added some femininity to the paintings | |
536516556 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | -a Swiss man and great thinker
-believed that the general will should dictate not the monarch
-misogynistic
-published the social contract | |
536516557 | Immanuel Kant | -German Philosopher
-separated science and mortality
-believed science could describe nature but not mortality | |
536516558 | Frederick the Great | -enlightened despot who expanded Prussia's land
-defeated in the 7 years war
-freed serfs and created a state education system | |
536516559 | Catherine the Great | -enlightened despot of Russia
-rose to power through murder
-expanded and reformed Russia
-her reforms helped the nobles and state not peasants or serfs | |
536516560 | Emelian Pugachev | -leader of the peasants in Russia
-head of the peasant's rebellion
-his army was made up of the lower classes
-his army was defeated and he was killed | |
536516561 | Maria Theresa | -enlightened despot of Austria
-took power from the pope and placed it in the bureaucracy giving her more power
-took the power noble had over their serfs away | |
536516562 | Joseph II | -son of Maria Theresa
-influenced by the philosophes
-believed the state had more power when given enough reason | |
536516563 | War of Austrian Succession | -France and England fought over India and the New World
-Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle preserved the Status Quo
-Started because Maria Theresa wanted Silesia | |
536516564 | Seven Years' War | -Probably the first world war
-Britain and Prussia VS. Russia Austria and France
-bloodiest waar in Europe since the 30 years war
-spilled into the colonies
-Treaty of Versailles ended it | |
536516565 | French and Indian War | -fought in North America
-Britain and the Colonies VS. France and Native Americans
-Contributed to Britain's economic dominance | |
536516566 | Wet Nursing | -A woman who nurses another woman's child
-popular in France
-usually poorer women
-led to a high infant mortality rate | |
536516567 | Primogeniture | -the right for a firstborn child to inherit all property
-men were higher than women regardless of age
-whole-blood tromped not whole blood | |
536516568 | Infanticide | -the act of killing an infant in its first year
-usually committed by poorer women
-shows how children of the 18th century could be a burden
-laws were made to prevent it | |
536516569 | Agricultural Revolution | -selective breeding
-new crops and technologies like the seed drill
-increase of food production throughout Europe
-helped offset famine
-17th and 18th centuries | |
536516570 | Crop Rotation/Seed Drill | -new ways of growing more food
-crop rotation was rotating crops that were grown in each field
-this kept the soil rich
-Seed Drill was a new invention to plant crops in neat rows
-invented by Jethro Tull | |
536516571 | Enclosure Acts | -a series of over 3,000 acts passed by the British Parliament
-increased landowner's profit
-left many peasants jobless
-led to the commercialization of agriculture | |
536516572 | Bank of England | -a national bank used to fund trade
-functioned as the debt managers for the government
-lent to the Dutch India Company helping the Dutch economy | |
536516573 | Putting Out System | -process where raw materials were turned into finished goods
-materials were sent out to the countryside to be worked upon by cottages
-created the cottage industry | |
536516574 | Richard Arkwright | -invented the water frame to improve spinning speed
-later used steam power to power looms
-required the factory production of textiles
-start of the industrial revolution | |
536516575 | Mercantilism | -government controlled economy
-used to fund wars and keep absolutists in power
-usually in Western-Europe
-promoted the hoarding of gold and silvers
-the opposite of laissez-faire | |
536516576 | Adam Smith | -leading figure of the scottish enlightenment
-promoted a laissez-fiare economy
-provided the foundations of modern economics
-against mercantilism | |