43455117 | Italian Renaissance | the early period when Italy was the center of the Renaissance | 0 | |
43455118 | Niccolo Machiavelli | a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527) | 1 | |
43455119 | Humanism | the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason | 2 | |
43455120 | Northern Renaissance | Emphasized Critical Thinking, Developed Christian Humanism criticizing the church & society, Painting/ Woodcuts/Literature | 3 | |
43455121 | Francis I | French king of the Valois dynasty who was involved in the Italian wars, was defeated by Charles I | 4 | |
43455122 | Johannes Gutenberg | German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468) | 5 | |
43455123 | European-style family | later marriage age, less children, more focus on nuclear family | 6 | |
43455124 | Martin Luther | a German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices. | 7 | |
43455125 | Protestantism | the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation | 8 | |
43455126 | Anglican Church | the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs) | 9 | |
43455127 | Jean Calvin | created Calvinism, believed in predestination, participation for all believers in church administration, popular education, adopted in Switzerland Germany and France | 10 | |
43455128 | Catholic Reformation | Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church, begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline. (p. 447) | 11 | |
43455129 | Jesuits | Also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism. | 12 | |
43455130 | Edict of Nantes | 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of conscience and worship. | 13 | |
43455131 | Thirty Years War | (1618-48) A series of European wars that were partially a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict. It was primarily a batlte between France and their rivals the Hapsburg's, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire. | 14 | |
43455132 | Treaty of Westphalia | treaty that ended the 30 Years' War | 15 | |
43455133 | English Civil War | civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I | 16 | |
43455134 | Proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | 17 | |
43455135 | Witchcraft hysteria | Reflected resentment against poor, uncertanties about religious truth; resulted in death of over 100,000 Europeans between 1590 and 1650; particularly common in Protestant areas | 18 | |
43455136 | Scientific Revolution | an era between 16th and 18th centuries when scientists began doing research in a new way using the scientific method | 19 | |
43455137 | Copernicus | Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543) | 20 | |
43455138 | Johannes Kepler | German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630) | 21 | |
43455139 | Galileo | Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars | 22 | |
43455140 | John Harvey | English physician (17th century) who demonstrated circular movement of blood in animals, function of heart as pump. | 23 | |
43455141 | Rene Descartes | French nativist philosopher; proponent of dualism; argued that "threads" within the body control movement, and that some behaviors occur without thought | 24 | |
43455142 | Isaac Newton | English Scientist. 3 Laws of motion. Mathematics Principal of Natural Philosophy (1687). | 25 | |
43455143 | Deism | the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation | 26 | |
43455144 | John Locke | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704) | 27 | |
43455145 | Absolute Monarchy | ruler has total power | 28 | |
43455146 | Louis XIV | king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715) | 29 | |
43455147 | Mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 30 | |
43455148 | Glorious Revolution | A reference to the political events of 1688-1689, when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William of Orange. | 31 | |
43455149 | Fredrick the Great | Was ruler of Purussia. He centralized the government and put it under his control. He devoted his life to the Prussia army | 32 | |
43455150 | Enlightenment | education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | 33 | |
43455151 | Adam Smith | Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790) | 34 | |
43455152 | Mary Wollstonecraft | English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women | 35 | |
43455153 | Indulgences | pardon sold by catholic church to reduce one's punishment | 36 | |
43455154 | Predestination | the belief that what happens in human life has already been determined by some higher power | 37 | |
43455155 | Parliamentary Democracy | government in which voters elect representatives to a lawmaking body which chooses a prime minister to head the government | 38 | |
43455156 | Frederick the Great | king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 | 39 |
AP World History Ch. 17 terms Flashcards
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