Chapter 1-4 Flashcards
Enclosure
Enclosure- commercial farm force many off the land.
* land owner want to make more money, so force other off. * many became labored to work for others. * created sturdy beggars, they don't have jobs and created crimes.
Outwork system
Woolen industry making clothes is a big industry.
* outwork system is a way to get around guild. * entrepreneurs hire woman to produce clothes. - out of country side. * price of item go down because get around guilds. - guild limited supply to keep price high.
Mercantilism
Dominate economic practice in the 17th.
Prosperity of national depend on the gold and silver they have.
Favor exports more than import.
Government intervene by regulations.
Help increase authorities of new nation states & king power depends on wealth.
1. Trade benefits all 2. Favorable trade for surplus of gold 3. Policies encourage growth 4. Colonies are beneficial.
Small pox
Originally from cattle.
Cause high fever, infection of itchy sores fatal.
Kill many Indian from new world.
Plymouth Indian before pilgrim came.
1/2 Aztecs dies make it easier for Cortez Spain.
Incas ruler touch off civil war. Pizarro take advantage.
Columbia exchange
This is when Europe, America & Africa met there was exchange of plant, disease, animals, tech & people. Plant such as cotton, sugar cane. Exports tobacco, corn & potatoes. Created better diet for European. Learn Indian agriculture to improve farming. Sell gun & canon to Indians. Looking to get rich. Millions of Slave brought to new world. Decimate many African community.
Absolutism
After the thirty years war king began to gather power. Divine right because I said so. Weaken power of church & nobles. Rule without parliament. Order stability for citizens. Increase taxes for war and bureaucracy. Build up military power.
Louis 14
The king of France was appointed king at young age.
At 23 he want to be a real king.
Build the Versailles and make noble live with him, so he can control their power.
Make many while decisions and uncontrol power.
Raise heavy taxes and crushed peasant revolt.
When on several war try to gain control of land without success.
Spain, Netherlands. Creates heavy debt after he dies.
Charles 1
Son of king James.
Defend of divine right of king.
Don’t take advices from parliament.
Ask parliament back because he lost the civil war.
Lost to the Puritan.
Try to enforce religious policies on the scot cost civil war.
Alchemy
The study chemical by breaking up atom and rearranged it.
Want to create gold, long life and weapons.
Many early scientists were alchemist.
Philosopher stone, idea from Egypt.
Isaac Newton.
Copernicus
1st modern scientists to say sun in the middle.
Polish alchemists did study for churches.
Dislike Ptolemy system .
Worry of his ideas will cause dislike from churches.
Wait until before death to show his results.
Copernicus universe have fixed stars.
Kepler
Student of Brahe. Should be a minister. Influence by great astronomer, so he pursues his real interest math and astronomy.
Acclaimed the law of planetary.
Orbit elliptical, faster and created formula.
He proves Copernicus. To
Galileo
Taught math.
Reinventing the telescopes to see moon and Jupiter.
Pursue his ideas the universe is not perfect, but changing all the time.
Used math to proved.
Against the churches.
Newton
Discover gravity and explain how Kepler.
The law of motion when we push something it moved, so their is an equal or opposite reaction.
Invent calculus, experiment with light.
He already know all this when young, but hold back.
Bacon
A politician who looking for weapon and gold.
British.
Science should create something useful to men.
Created inductive reasoning.
Paracelsus
Associated to change of medicine in the 17th.
Not easy to get along with.
Hated idead of old philosophy Aristotle. He thought new medicine should based on observation and experiment.
Thought disease were cause by chemical imbalance in organ and can be treated.