6721360194 | humanism | the focus on human endeavors | 0 | |
6721362986 | Johannes Gutenberg | who invented the printing press? | 1 | |
6721363853 | Erasmus | most well known learned men of the time, counseled kings and popes, wrote "In Praise of Folly" | 2 | |
6721368303 | Sir Thomas Moore | wrote Utopia, described ideal society | 3 | |
6721369825 | Protestant Reformation | confrontation with the Catholic Church | 4 | |
6721372132 | indulgences | sold by the Catholic; piece of paper that could be purchased to reduce time in purgatory | 5 | |
6721388013 | John Calvin | who formed the protestant group called the Calvinists? | 6 | |
6721388014 | King Henry VIII | renounced Rome and became head of religion in England, called the Anglican Church | 7 | |
6721388015 | Catholic Reformation/ Counter Reformation | Catholic Church reformed because of Protestants | 8 | |
6721392083 | Ignatius Loyola | who founded the Jesuits, was a Spanish soldier | 9 | |
6721393653 | Council of Trent | meeting of church officials held to direct counter reformation from 1545-1563 | 10 | |
6721397082 | atheists | this group believes that there is no God | 11 | |
6721398537 | the Enlightenment | time of examining role of humans in relation to government | 12 | |
6721403436 | Montesquieu | believed government should have checks and balances | 13 | |
6721404653 | Voltaire | believed religion crushes the human spirit | 14 | |
6721406298 | Rousseau | believed people had to sacrifice some rights for freedom | 15 | |
6721408105 | Thomas Hobbes | believed the purpose of government was to preserve peace and stability | 16 | |
6721410723 | John Locke | believed people are born equal with natural rights | 17 | |
6721413198 | Neoclassical Period | time when people imitated style of Greek and Roman architecture | 18 | |
6721417033 | Vasco da Gama | explorer that rounded the tip of Africa and went to India | 19 | |
6721420787 | Treaty of Tordesillas | divided the America's into east and west to settle land disputes between Spain and Portugal | 20 | |
6721581300 | haciendas system | system where natives owed labor to their landlords | 21 | |
6721584319 | Hernan Cortes | explorer that conquered the Aztec empire | 22 | |
6721588402 | Franciso Pizarro | explorer that conquered the Inca empire | 23 | |
6721594062 | encomienda system | system of forced labor | 24 | |
6721600214 | mercantilism | a country actively sought to trade but tried to import more than it exported | 25 | |
6721604156 | Act of Supremacy | King Henry VIII nullified pope's authority and established the church of England under this act | 26 | |
6721608910 | Elizabethan Age | time of English expansion, exploration, and colonization | 27 | |
6721611517 | Stuart restoration | Parliament had Charles II take the throne after Charles I was beheaded | 28 | |
6721613404 | Glorious Revolution | James II driven from power because they believed he would make England Catholic again | 29 | |
6721617130 | Huguenots | a group of French Protestants | 30 | |
6721618307 | Edict of Nantes | signed by Henry IV to end the violence in France between the Catholics and the Huguenots | 31 | |
6721621241 | Thirty Years War | Protestants challenged Holy Roman Emperor, was a huge religious and political war | 32 | |
6721625015 | Peter the Great | westernized Russia, built St. Petersburg | 33 | |
6721626132 | Catherine the Great | adopted more education and western culture in Russia | 34 | |
6721628248 | Osman Bey | founded the Ottoman Empire that rose in Anatolia | 35 | |
6721629786 | Mughal Empire | established by Babur, dominated the Indian subcontinent | 36 | |
6721633697 | Akbar | Mughal leader that unified India by religious tolerance | 37 | |
6721634942 | Kongo | on the west coast of Africa, traded with Portugal, King Alfonso I converted the people to Catholicism | 38 | |
6721637408 | Angola | established as a trading post by the Portuguese, ruled by Queen Nzinga--> warrior queen | 39 | |
6721641591 | Zheng He | led the Chinese naval voyages under the Ming | 40 |
AP World History Unit 4 Flashcards
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