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6340751343Niccolo Machiavellirealistic discussions of how to seize and maintain power; Italian Renaissance; The Prince0
6340751344Leonardo Da Vinciadvanced realistic portrayal of human body1
6340751345Humanismfocus on humankind as center of intellectual and artistic endeavor2
6340751346Petrarchinspired less religious spirit, not totally abandoning it3
6340751347Northern Renaissanceclassical renaissance styles in art and architecture in France, Germany, England, the Low Countries4
6340751348Shakespeare in England, Rabelais in France, Cervantes in Spainrenaissance writers that mixed classical themes with earthiness5
6340751349Francis IKing Of France; patron of arts, imported Italian architects to create classical style palaces6
6340751350Johannes Gutenburgintroduced movable type-innovated on chinese printing technology; caused literacy to gain ground; encouraged spread of religion7
634075135115th century European-Style Familya) later marriage age b) nuclear-smaller families c) married more for love than financial benefit8
6340751352Martin LutherGerman monk who nailed 95 theses to church door protesting the selling of salvation and indulgences for money-began lutheran version of protestantism9
6340751353Lutheran Protestant valuesagainst selling indulgences, monasticism was wrong, princes should marry, bible should be translated from Latin, state control of church, faith alone gained salvation, special vocations were not especially holy10
6340751354Anglican Churchset up by King Henry VIII to be able to divorce11
6340751355Jean CalvinFrenchman who established based in Geneva, Switzerland; God's predestination; ministers were moral guardians and preachers of God's word; promoted broader education so more people could read Bible; exiled in 17th century12
6340751356Catholic Reformationchurch revived Catholic doctrine and rejected all Protestant ideas; attacked superstitions13
6340751357Jesuitsreligious order became active in politics, education, missionary work, sponsored catholic missionary activity in Asia and Americas14
6340751358Edict of Nantes; 1598granted tolerance of Protestants in France; ignored by most French kings in the next century15
6340751359Thirty Years' Wars; 1618German Protestants and Lutheran Sweden vs. Holy Roman emperor and Spain; devastated Germany; ended in 164816
6340751360Treaty of Westphalia; 1648ended Thirty Years' War through territorial tolerance: some princes and cities chose their own religions; gave Netherlands independence17
6340751361English Civil Warparliament rights vs. absolute authority; religious conflicts18
6340751362Cause of Inflationgold and silver from Spain; Western production could not keep pace; encouraged merchants to take risks through loans because money was losing value19
6340751363ProletariatWest; people without access to wealth-producing property; rising food prices forced poor people to sell land, some went to manufacturing or paid laborers or into city as beggars20
6340751364witchcraft persecutionpoor, old women were persecuted as witches; blamed for their poverty21
6340751365Scientific Revolutionaffected formal intellectual life and popular outlook22
6340751366CopernicusPolish monk; heliocentric theory; stifled by Church23
6340751367Johannes Keplerplanetary motion; advanced knowledge and implied scientific research's power to test and prove24
6340751368Galileotelescope; publicized Copernicus;l heliocentric theory; scientific method of experimenting25
6340751369William HarveyEnglish physician; circular movement of blood; heart as central pumping station`26
6340751370Francis Baconvalue of careful empirical research; predicted improvement of scientific knowledge and in tech27
6340751371Rene Descartesimportance of a skeptical review of wisdom; human reason could develop laws to explain workings of nature28
6340751372Isaac NewtonPrincipia Mathematica; basic principles of all motion; defined forces of gravity; stated scientific method;29
6340751373Deismdivinity but its job was to set laws in motion30
6340751374John Lockefaith was irrelevant; people could learn everything through senses and reason31
6340751375Absolute monarchyfrench political system where monarch has absolute power by divine right32
6340751376Louis XIVabsolute monarch; palace at Versailles kept nobles busy; worked to standardize French language; mercantilism; tariff on imported goods33
6340751377Glorious Revolutionpolitical settlement of English civil war where parliament won basic sovereignty over king;34
6340751378Frederick the GreatPrussian King; greater freedom of religion;better agricultural methods; greater commercial coordination; harsh punishments cut back; enlightened despot35
6340751379Enlightenmentfrom Scientific Revolution; applied scientific methods to the study of human society; social science; basic human rights36
6340751380Adam SmithWealth of Nations; principles of economic behavior; people act according to self-interest; promote general economic advance through competition; government should avoid regulation of market37
6340751381Denis DiderotEncylopedia; scientific and social scientific knowledge38
6340751382Mary Wollstonecraftfeminist thinker, new political rights and freedoms to be extended toward women; England39

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