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8633864274Who was Petrarch what did his writings emphasis?-An Italian writer -He wrote of his ascent of a mountain, proud of his own skill and using the climb as a symbol of what he could achieve0
8633864275What did the Renaissance challenge?Medieval intellectual values & styles1
8633864276What did it encourage?A new brasher spirit that may have encouraged a new Western interest in exploring strange waters or urging that old truths be reexamined2
8633864277How had painting changed (what was the new focus)?Turned to new realism and classical and human-centered themes3
8633864278What did Machiavelli emphasis?Realistic discussions of how to seize and maintain power4
8633864279Define humanism-A focus on humankind as the center of intellectual & artistic endeavor5
8633864280What had Renaissance merchants improved?Their banking techniques6
8633864281Why had the Mediterranean ports become less important?New Atlantic trade routes7
8633864282When did the Northern Renaissance begin and which countries were involved?-After 1450 -France, the Low Countries, Germany, & England8
8633864283Northern humanists were more religious than their Italian counterparts, trying to blend secular interests with continues Christian devotion. True or FalseTrue9
8633864284By the late 16th century, what were monarchs sponsoring?Trading companies & colonial enterprises10
8633864285How were ordinary people affected by the Renaissance?Ordinary people were little touched by the Renaissance; the life of most peasants & artisans went on much as before11
8633864286When was printing introduced and who perfected this technology in Europe?-15th century -Johannes Gutenberg12
8633864287What was the impact of the printing press?Books were distributed in greater quantities & literacy began to gain ground and became a fertile source for new kinds of thinking13
8633864288How did family change in the 16th century?-Late marriage age -Emphasis of nuclear families of parents & children -Goal was to limit family birth rates14
8633864289What was Martin Luther protesting against when he wrote his 95 theses?Claims made by a papal representative in selling indulgences for money15
8633864290Define indulgence-Grants of salvation16
8633864291Why did Germans start supporting Luther's ideas?They saw an opportunity to gain more power17
8633864292Define Protestantism-General wave of religious dissent against the Catholic Church18
8633864293Who started the Anglican Church and why?-Henry VIII -To challenge papal attempts to enforce his first marriage19
8633864294What did Calvinism insist on?God's predestination of those who would be saved20
8633864295What was the Catholic Reformation?Restatement of traditional Catholic beliefs in response to Protestant Reformation; established councils that revived Catholic doctrine and refuted Protestant beliefs21
8633864296Who are the Jesuits and what did they do for the Catholic Church?-A new religious order founded during the Catholic Reformation -Were active in politics & sponsored Catholic missionary activity22
8633864297What were the Results of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations?A series of religious wars23
8633864298Who was involved with the Thirty Years War?-Germany -Sweden -Spain24
8633864299What was the significance of the Treaty of Westphalia, 1648?It agreed to a territorial tolerance concept: some states and cities chose one religion, some another25
8633864300What were the issues involved in the English Civil War in the 1640s?Religious issues combined with other problems26
8633864301How were women's roles evolving or changing?There were fewer alternatives for women who could not marry and women's emotional role in family improved with the new emphasis on affection27
8633864302What did religious change promote?Growing literacy along with the spread of the printing press28
8633864303What was the economic impact of more importing more gold and silver into Europe?Inflation29
8633864304What did inflation encourage merchants to do?Take new risks30
8633864305What did colonial markets stimulate?Manufacturing31
8633864306Define proletariat-People without access to wealth-producing property32
8633864307Why were the poor blamed for the problems of society?-Were more manipulable -Caused a growing problem of beggars & wandering poor33
8633864308What did the uprising of 1648 produce in England?Demands for a popular political voice34
8633864309What did the witchcraft persecution reflect?New resentments against the poor35
8633864310What did the Scientific Revolution affect and promote?-Affected formal intellectual life -Promoted changes in popular outlook36
8633864311What did Copernicus discover?The planets moved around the sun rather than the earth37
8633864312What did Copernicus base his findings on?Mathematics38
8633864313Who else discovered what Copernicus discovered and when?-Two Arabs, al-Urdi and al-Tusi -13th and 14th centuries39
8633864314Who was Johannes Kepler?An important early figure in the study of planetary motion40
8633864315What did Galileo publicize?Copernicus's discoveries while adding his own basic findings about the laws of gravity and planetary motion41
8633864316Why was he condemned by the Church?For his innovations42
8633864317What did William Harvey demonstrate?The circular movement of the blood in animals, with the heart as the "central pumping station"43
8633864318What did Rene Descartes establish?The importance of a skeptical review of all received wisdom, arguing that human reason could develop laws that would explain the fundamental workings of nature44
8633864319What did Isaac Newton's work Principia Mathematica draw upon and why was it significant in the 17th century?-Drew the various astronomical and physical observations and wider theories together in a neat framework of natural laws -It was a vision of a natural universe that could be captured in simple laws and a method of knowing that might do away with blind reliance on tradition or religious faith45
8633864320What did people following Deism argue?Although there might be a divinity, its role was simply to set natural laws in motion46
8633864321The West was alone in developing crucial scientific data. True or FalseFalse47
8633864322Why had the monarchs gained new powers?Curtailing the tradition of noble pressure or revolt48
8633864323What did the French kings do to increase their powers?-Stopped convening the medieval parliament -Passed laws as they saw fit -Appointed a growing bureaucracy -Sent direct representatives to the outlying provinces -Professionalized the army49
8633864324What did the French system become known as?Absolute monarchy50
8633864325What French king truly represented the age of absolutism?King Louis XIV51
8633864326Where did the most important spread of absolute monarchy take place?-The central European states that were gaining in importance -Prussia & eastern Germany52
8633864327What did absolute monarchs focus on and hope for?-Strong military -Territorial expansion53
8633864328What countries stood apart from the trend toward absolute monarchy?-Britain -Netherlands54
8633864329What did those countries emphasize instead?The role of the central state55
8633864330What was the result of the Glorious Revolution?Parliament won basic sovereignty over the king56
8633864331What did John Locke argue?Argued that power came from the people, not from a divine right to royal rule57
8633864332How was parliamentary monarchy different from absolute monarchy?Maintained a characteristic tension between government growth & the idea that there should be some limits to state authority58
8633864333What did ordinary people start to believe?That government should act for their interests59
8633864334What did Louis XIV begin to face?Recurrent popular riots based on the assumption that when bad harvests drove up food prices, the government was obligated to help people out60
8633864335Who was Frederick the Great?The king of Prussia61
8633864336What did the policies of the major Western nation-states produce?Recurrent warfare62
8633864337What did the Enlightenment thinkers support?Scientific advance63
8633864338What did the Enlightenment apply scientific methods to?The study of human society64
8633864339What did political theorists write about?The importance of carefully planned constitutions and controls over privilege65
8633864340Who is Adam Smith and what did he argue?Argued that people act according to self-interest but, through competition, promote general economic advance66
8633864341What sort of principles did the Enlightenment produce about humans?Human beings are good, at least improvable, and they can be educated to be better; reason is the key to truth, and religions that rely on blind faith or refuse to tolerate diversity are wrong67
8633864342Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?A feminist thinker who argued against the general male-centered views of most Enlightenment thinkers68
8633864343How did attitudes toward children change?-Older methods of physical discipline were criticized in favor of more restrained behavior that would respect the goodness and innocence of children -Swaddling declined -Educational books & toys became popular69
8633864344How did marriage change?Became more widely sought70
8633864345What did ordinary Westerns begin to buy?Processed products (ex. refined sugar, coffee, & tea)71
8633864346What did the new consumerism suggest?Growing importance of Europe's new colonies for ordinary life72
8633864347What was the purpose of the three-field system?To restore the land's fertility73
8633864348What was the impact of the potato (a New World crop)?Won peasants greater economic security & better nutrition74
8633864349Define capitalism-The investment of funds in hope of larger profits75
8633864350What did the 18th century witness the rapid spread of?Household production of textiles and metal products76
8633864351What was the Western economy moving toward in the 18th century?A full-fledged Industrial Revolution77
8633864352What did population growth encourage?Further economic change78
8633864353What did stronger governments promote?Agricultural improvements79

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