Chapter 17a= Niccolo Machiavelli through Proletariat
Chapter 17b= Witchcraft Persecution through Mary Wollstonecraft
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| 6138655473 | Niccolo Machiavelli | Author of "The Prince," a treatise on how to seize and maintain power. | 0 | |
| 6138655474 | Humanism | Renaissance movement that focused on humankind as the center of intellectual and artistic endeavour | 1 | |
| 6138658307 | Northern Renaissance | Renaissance locale after 1450 centered in France, the Low Countries, Germany, and England | 2 | |
| 6138658308 | Francis I | Renaissance king and patron of the arts from France | 3 | |
| 6138660551 | Johannes Gutenberg | German who introduced movable type to Europe in the 15th century | 4 | |
| 6138660552 | European-style Family | Social pattern developed in the 15th century that involved late marriage and nuclear rather than extended families | 5 | |
| 6138662668 | Martin Luther | German monk whose 95 theses began the Protestant Reformation | 6 | |
| 6138662669 | Protestantism | Wave of religious dissent against the Catholic church | 7 | |
| 6138665203 | Anglican Church | Church formed in England by Henry VIII to challenge papal attempts to enforce his first marriage | 8 | |
| 6138665204 | Jean Calvin | Frenchman who established the theory of predestination based in Geneva, Switzerland | 9 | |
| 6138667349 | Catholic Reformation | Catholic response to Protestantism, it revised Catholic doctrine and refuted key Protestant tenets. | 10 | |
| 6138667350 | Jesuits | Catholic religious order that became active in politics, education, and especially missionary work | 11 | |
| 6138667351 | Edict of Nantes | Decree that granted religious tolerance to Protestants in France | 12 | |
| 6138669865 | Thirty Years' War | Conflict pitting German Protestants against the Holy Roman Emperor backed by Spain | 13 | |
| 6138669866 | Treaty of Westphalia | Agreement that allowed the rulers of the princely states of Germany to select one religion and began an era of religious toleration | 14 | |
| 6138671743 | English Civil War | Conflict lasting from the 1640s to 1689 and ended with limited religious toleration for most Protestant faiths (excluding Catholics) in Britain. | 15 | |
| 6138671744 | Proletariat | People without access to wealth-producing property | 16 | |
| 6138674201 | Witchcraft Persecution | Cultural upheaval reflecting resentment against the poor, resulting in the deaths of up to 100,000 people | 17 | |
| 6138675882 | Scientific Revolution | Advances that affected formal intellectual life by promoting changes in traditional beliefs of the Middle Ages | 18 | |
| 6138675883 | Copernicus | 16th century discoverer of the heliocentric plan for planetary motion | 19 | |
| 6138675884 | Galileo | Italian who proved the inadequacies of traditional scientific thinking through his own studies of the universe and gravity | 20 | |
| 6138678490 | William Harvey | English physician who proved the circular motion of blood in animals | 21 | |
| 6138678491 | René Descartes | Scientist who argued that human reason could develop laws that would explain the fundamental workings of nature | 22 | |
| 6138683152 | Isaac Newton | Scientist who set forth the basic principles for motion in his work "Principia Mathematica" | 23 | |
| 6138683257 | Deism | New concept of God that proposed the belief that while God was divine, His role was to simply set natural laws in motion | 24 | |
| 6138685232 | John Locke | Englishman who argued that people could learn everything they needed to know through their senses and that faith was irrelevant | 25 | |
| 6138685233 | Absolute Monarchy | French system in which the king had complete and total power within his realm | 26 | |
| 6138687166 | Louis XIV | The greatest of the French monarchs, he creates a new bureaucratic system structure to support his policies | 27 | |
| 6138687167 | Glorious Revolution | English revolution where Parliament finally wins basic sovereignty over the king | 28 | |
| 6138690386 | Parliamentary Monarchy | English governmental form that began in the 17th century creating significant legislative powers over the crown | 29 | |
| 6138690387 | Frederick the Great | Prussian ruler who introduces greater religious freedoms to his state | 30 | |
| 6138691962 | Enlightenment | Movement centered in France that pioneered application of scientific methods in the study of human society | 31 | |
| 6138691963 | Adam Smith | Scottish philosopher who sets forth a number of economic principles in his work "The Wealth of Nations" | 32 | |
| 6138695301 | Mary Wollstonecraft | Feminist thinker who argued that political rights and freedom should be extended to women. | 33 |
