AP Euro Hub Dates Flashcards
1450 main event
printing press and start of Renaissance
1450 political
-Hundred years war
-Peasant revolts
-Fall of Constantinople
-Unification of Spain
-Peace of Lodi
-Medici Family
-War of Roses
-Venetian Navy was most powerful in Italy
1450 economic
-printing press (obviously increased economy as an industry)
-Mediterranean Trade instead of Black Sea
-Medici Family the most powerful in Europe
-Plague left countries around Europe Struggling
-Start of Hanseatic League decline
-African Slave Trade and stoppage of Black Sea trade due to Ottoman Empire
1450 religious
-secularism
-Gutenberg’s bible published in the vernacular
-Nepotism
-End of the Great Schism
-Pope Leo X
-Indulgences
-Flagellants
-Slow decline start of Catholic Church
1450 social
-End of Black Death/bubonic plague
-feudal system
-civic humanism
-Marriage Gap
-primogeniture
-Increased Prostitution
-Strategic marriages
-Men married late and women married early
1450 intellectual
-spread of humanism
-Printing press; people can read more
-Petrarch and humanism; rebirth of the classics
-Vernacular Bibles
-New Schools teaching humanities
-Chaucer and the canterbury tales
-Secularism
-Individualism
-literacy rates increased (= better education)
1450 art
-donatello’s “david”
-Higher status of Artists
-Wealthy artists and people commissioning art
-Art influenced by Intellectual movements
1492 main event
christopher columbus (exploration)
1492 political
-start of habsburg-valois wars
-Court of Star Chamber Henry VII (1487)
-Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
-Conquistadors
-Columbus
-Age of Exploration
-New Spain, Portugal in India and Africa, Dutch Spice Islands, French Canada, Britain came after to beat everyone
-Spanish Golden Age
-Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834)
1492 economic
-Price Revolution
-Mercantilism
-Debt
-Capitalism
-Spending money they did not have
-Wealth measured in precious metals
-Higher status of nobles and merchants but same wages for peasants
-INFLATION
-Middle Passage
-Triangular Trade
-Columbian Exchange
-Rise of plantations and cash crops
-Vasco de Gama goes to India
1492 religious
- Lessening of faith
-Restoring faith in new World
-Missions
-Nepotism
-Spanish Inquisition
1492 social
-Death of Natives due to diseases
-Slaves now came from Africa
-Many of the wealthy prospered off banks and investments
-Potatoes stopped famine in Europe
-Europeans were superior and rulers of natives
-Europeans married and bred with some natives to create mixed children
-High Rennaissance
1492 intellectual
-New technology:
-Lateen sails
-Portolani
-Astrolabe
-Compass
-Better ships
-New world influence
1492 art
-Da Vinci’s “last supper”
-Age of Exploration Art
-Skulls and maps etc.
-Native influences on art and Europe influence on natives
1517 main event
95 theses- martin luther
1517 political
-Act of Supremacy
-Elizabeth (politique)
-Mary I (Bloody to restore Catholic faith)
-Henry VIII
-Rise of Machiavelli Politiques (Ferdinand II of Italy)
-German Peasant Revolt (1524-1525)
-Birth of Diplomacy and New Ambassadors for the Italian states
-Diet and Edict of Milan
-Schmalkdic League
1517 economic
-Decreased indulgences
-Price Revolution
-Slave trade
-Inflation
1517 religious
-95 Theses
-Calvin’s Geneva
-Anglican Church
-Protestant Stuff: Anabaptist, Zwinglism, Lutheranism and Calvinism
-Servetus and Unitarianism
-Diet of Worms decides Luther’s Fate
1517 social
-Huguenots
-Peasant revolt in germany
-Smallpox in new world
1517 intellectual
-Machiavelli the prince
-Thomas More: Utopia
-Book of the Courtier
-Paracelsus
1517 art
-michalangelo “sistine chapel”
-Raphael: School of Athens
-Sistine Madonna
1555 main event
-Peace of Augsburg
1555 political
-Peace of Augsburg
-German Princes
-Schmalkaldic Wars
-End of Habsburg-Valois Wars
1555 economic
-mercantilism begins
-Joint stock companies
-Wars of Religion cost (Spain and Philip II lost money from the Dutch) a lot of money
1555 religious
-council of trent
-Counter Reformation
-Society of Jesuits
-Peace of Augsburg allows Lutherans to practice in Germany
1555 social
-witchcraft
-Ivan the Terrible
-Influence from New World
-Abolished encomienda system in new world
-Height of Witchcraft craze
1555 intellectual
-Society of Jesus
-Calvin taught religious philosophy
-Revolution of heavenly bodies by Copernicus
-Start of Scientific Revolution
-Vesalius: On the Fabric of the Human Body
1555 art
-el greco (dark, twisted)
-Peter Bruegal Elder paint peasants and their life
-Equestrian portrait of Charles V by Titan
-Rise in Mannerism
1588 main event
spanish armada (defeat of spanish by england)
1588 political
-queen elizabeth defeated spanish armada
-Netherlands Gained their independence
-Beginning of Britain Golden Age
-Britain and other poltiical powers building colonies around the world
-Spain one of the most powerful empires (South America, etc.)
-William of Orange united Dutch during Dutch Revolt
-St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
1588 economic
-Mercantilism was very high
-Inflation was also very high
-Bank of Amsterdam
-Dutch Golden Age
-East India Trading Company
-Rise of Capitalism a bit later
1588 religious
-edict of nantes
-St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
-Catholic and Protestant United Provinces
1588 social
-increased population
-Increase of Serfdom
-Increased class disparity
-Increased coal and iron in England
1588 intellectual
-galileo telescope & thermometer
-Brahe’s astronomical observations, Kepler and 3 laws of planetary motion
-Francis Bacon and Empricism
-Astronomy observing and theater emerges
1588 artistic
- Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and others
-Beginning of the end of Mannerism
-Beginning of the start of Baroque
1648 main event
peace of westphalia (ending the european wars of religion and 30 Years War)
1648 political
-(JCOCJ) English Civil War
-Peace of Westphalia ended politically motivated wars
-Politics and Religion are now separate
-Age of Absolutism -Richelieu and Louis XIV
Fronde uprising in France
-Dutch Independence
-Spanish Habsburg and Spain starts to decline
-Frederick William the Great Elector and rise of Brandenburg-Prussia
-New Austrian Empire with Transylvania, Hungary, Croatia, and Slovenia (1699) (Leopold I and Joseph I)
Austria gets control of Spain
-Denmark ruled by aristocrats and Sweden absolute rulers
-Height of Ottoman Empire as “sleeping giant”
-Polish weak central monarch
-The Fronde Wars (nobility vs king 1648)
1648 economic
-HRE collapsed because of too much money spent on wars, etc.
-More silver found in America
-Period of development for most countries
-Height of Dutch Golden Age
-Emerging Powers of France and Dutch Provinces
-France excessive spending and wars: Versailles,
-Wars of Spanish Succession, etc.
1648 religious
-protestant reformation ended
-Peace of Westphalia allows for Calvinism to be legal with the other religions
-New ideas in Science were opposed by the Church
-Edict of Restitution (1629)
1648 social
-Beginning of the end of Witchcraft Craze
-Population decline/stagnation across Europe
-Dutch Commercial power height
1648 intellectual
-Pascal invented early calculator
-Descartes Dualism and analytical geometry
-Major advances/development of scientific reasoning/knowledge
-Harvey theory of circulation, Spinoza women in science,
-Salons, scientific societies, journals, and spread of knowledge
-Beginning of Paths to Enlightenment
-Beginning of English Royal Society and French Royal Academy of Sciences, salons
-Hobbes: Leviathan
-Controlled experiments of Robert Boyle
-Margaret Cavendish (Women in Science)
Maria Merian
1648 artistic
-Dutch Realism (kind of Baroque) - Rembrandt
-New Age of royal patronage
-French Drama: Racine
1688 main event
revolution of 1688 (aka glorious revolution)
1688 political
-End of JCOCJ and transition to Mary II and William III Orange
-Wars of Spanish Succession and Treaty of Utrecht
-Bill of Rights: England
-Declaration of Indulgence
-Peter the Great makes Russia major power
-Austria takes over Italy and then Bourbons regained control (1734) over Naples and Sicility
-Venice and Genoa were independent
-Parliament has more power
-Pragmatic Sanction (1713
-Great Northern War (1700-1721)
1688 economic
-Bank of England
-Bigger loans and paper banknotes were issues
-Establishment of French East Trading Company to compete with English and Dutch companies in East Indies
-Increased livestock
-Nitrogen-rich crop rotation
-Greater yields of plants (from places around the world)
-Enclosure acts and no more open-field systems (England specifically)
1688 religious
-New skepticism about truths and religion arrive with more science ideas
-Edict of Fontainebleau (1685 and revokes Edict of Nantes)
-Act of Settlement (1701): Only Protestants could rule England and Ireland crown
-Toleration Act Britain (1689)
1688 social
-Feminism started (Cavendish and emergence of women scientists, writers)
-Women worked in cottage industry
-Population growth due to increasing birth rates
-Increased Parliament presence and Power (ex.: Great Britain)
1688 intellectual
-John Locke wrote about natural right
-Newton’s law of universal gravitation
Penseés by Pascal
-Cavendish: Grounds of Natural Philosophy
-Ethics by Spinoza
-Maria Winkelmann
-Growing skepticism about religion and science interference with truths, reason, and God.
-Newton invents binomial theorem and calculus
-Hooke discovered cork cells
-Principia Mathematica
-Tull’s seed drill and keeping soil loose so plants could grow better
1688 artistic
-palace of versailles
-Royal academies of sciences
-Fumo sculpts fallen christ
1750 main event
Wars of Austrian Succession
1750 political
-Despots take over: Maria Theresa, Frederick II
-War of Austrian Succession
-Seven Years War (Ended with Treaty of Paris and Hubertsburg)
-Robert Walpole as prime Minister of England (little before 1750)
-Hannovers are invited to rule England (but don’t speak English so they rely on ministers to do their jobs)
-Prussia: Strong army and Bureaucracy (more serfdom because nobles were military officers)
-Austria becomes stronger, but change comes too fast so they revert back.
-Russia becomes a modern European power but oppressed serfs and no religious tolerance (nobles were higher)
-Portugal declines in power and nobles and Church regain power
-Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ended War of Austrian Succession (Two Sides: France and Prussia vs. GBR and Austria): All land was returned (including Madras and Fort Louisburg) except Silesia, which leads to Austria starting the 7 Years War.
-7 Years War (First World War) between the British and Prussians and Austria, Russia, and France → Biggest conflict was French-Indian War in which Britain won and gained control of Ohio River Valley, Canada, and Spain got Louisiana and Britain got Florida.
-Britain emerges as greatest power, but in debt
-France declines a lot and is in major crises
-POVERTY
-Pragmatic Sanction (1713)
1750 economic
-Stock Market
-Iron act (limiting colonies ability to manufacture)
-Stamp act on the colonies
-More jobs available for lower classes (laborers, artisans, etc.)
-Agricultural revolution: seed drill
-Cottage Industry new methods: Capitalists giving poor areas money to manufacture and water frames, looms, etc.
-Increased Cotton Industry
-Mercantilist ideals: relying on colonies, gaining wealth in gold and silver, and the state should provide subsidies to manufacturers (global economy with colonies)
-Consumer Society
-Shifting Colonies (England gets land after the Treaty of Paris 1763 from France)
1750 religious
-Enlightened philosophes and rulers: Religious toleration
-Protestant Revivalism: Pietism
-Voltaire writes about Catholic Church
-Handel’s “Messiah”
-Trinitarianism
-Beggars were not seen as blessed children of God, now if you aided them, it led to more crime
-Pietism