2129009869 | humanism | Focus on mankind as center of intellectual and artistic endeavor | 0 | |
2129009870 | Northern Renaissance | Cultural and intellectual movement of northern Europe. Began later than Italian renaissance. Centered in France, Low Countries, England and Germany. Greater Emphasis on religion than italian renaissance | 1 | |
2129009871 | Francis I | King of France in the 16th century Regarded as Renaissance monarch. patron of the arts. Imposed new controls on catholic church, ally of the ottoman sultan against holy roman emperor | 2 | |
2129009872 | Johannes Gutenburg | Introduced movable type printing to Western Europe, credited with greatly expanded availibility of printed books and pamphlets | 3 | |
2129009873 | European Style family | Originated in 15th century among peasants and artisans of Western Europe, featuring late marriage age, emphasis on nuclear familiy and a large minority who never married | 4 | |
2129009874 | Martin Luther | German monk, initiated Protestant Reformation by nailing 95 thesis to the door of the wittenburg church. Emphasized primacy of faith over works stressed in Catholic church | 5 | |
2129009875 | Protestantism | General wave of religious dissent against catholic church beginning with Martin Luther's attack on Catholic beleifs. Included many varieties of religious belief | 6 | |
2129009876 | Anglican Church | Form of Protestantism set up in England | 7 | |
2129009877 | Henry VIII | established Anglican church of England at least in part to obtain a divorce from his first wife | 8 | |
2129009878 | Nicolo Machiavelli | Emphasized realistic discussion on how to maintain and sieze power | 9 | |
2129009879 | Jean Calvin | French Protestant, founder of Calvinism who stressed doctrine of pre-destination. | 10 | |
2129009880 | Calvinism | Encouraged ideas of wider access to government, wider public education | 11 | |
2129009881 | Catholic Reformation | Major church council revived Catholic Doctorine and refuted key protestant tenents | 12 | |
2129009882 | Jesuits | New religious order that became active in politics, education and missionary work | 13 | |
2129009883 | Edict of nantes | Grant tolerance to protestants in France, granted only after lengthy civil war between Catholic and protestant factions | 14 | |
2129009884 | Thirty years war | pitting German protestants against holy roman emperor | 15 | |
2129009885 | Treaty of Westphalia | agreed to territorial concept:Some princely states and cities choose one religion or another. Ended 30 years war | 16 | |
2129009886 | English civil war | calvinists, Anglicans and some remaining catholics locked on combat | 17 | |
2129009887 | Charles I | english king who was beheaded during English civil war | 18 | |
2129009888 | Witchcraft persecution | Reflected resentment against poor,uncertainties about religious truth | 19 | |
2129009889 | proletariat | People without access to wealth producing property | 20 | |
2129009890 | Scientific revolution | period of empirical advances associated with the development of wider theoretic genralizations | 21 | |
2129009891 | copernicus | Polish monk and astronomer. Disproved heliocentric belief that earth was at the center of the universe | 22 | |
2129009892 | Johhanes Kepler | Astronomer and math guy that was prominent figure in the scientific revolution | 23 | |
2129009893 | Galileo | Published copernicus's findings and added own discoveries of gravity and planetary motion | 24 | |
2129009894 | William Harvey | English physcian, demonstrated circular movement of blood and heart as pump | 25 | |
2129009895 | Descartes | Argued human reason could develop laws that would explain fundemental workings of nature | 26 | |
2129009896 | Francis Bacon | Best known for work on scientific method | 27 | |
2129009897 | Deism | role of divinity was to set natural laws in motion, not to regulate once process was begun | 28 | |
2129009898 | John Locke | Argued people could learn everything through senses and reason and that power of the goverment came form people | 29 | |
2129009899 | absolute monarchy | I AM THE STATE | 30 | |
2129009900 | Louis XIV | French monarch who was the state(absolute monarch) | 31 | |
2129009901 | Parliamentry monarchies | Kings partially checked by significant legislative powers in parliament | 32 | |
2129009902 | Fredrick the Great | Prussian king, attempted to introduce enlightenment reforms into germany, introduced freedom religion and increased state control on the economy | 33 | |
2129009903 | Adam smith | People act according to self interest but through competition promote general economic advance | 34 | |
2129009904 | the Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith's book | 35 | |
2129009905 | Denis Diderot | Leader of French Enlightenment, Figure best known for his work on first encyclopieda | 36 | |
2129009906 | mass consumerism | spread of deep interest in acquiring material goods and services spreading below elite level along with a growing economic capacity to afford some of these goods | 37 | |
2129009907 | Mary Wollstonecraft | argued that new political rights should extend to women | 38 | |
2129009908 | noble savage- | person uncorrupted by advanced civilization and urban ways | 39 |
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