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16th and 17th century Netherlands

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1572-became a republic w/ 7 provinces, Calvinism, R Catholicism, Protestantism, Jewish haven. Republic government.

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Dutch prosperity and decline

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More urban consolidation, transformed ag, extensive trade/finance, oversea commercial empire. William III of Orange dies leaving no unified political leadership

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Two models of European government

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Absolutism (right to rule from God) and Parliamentary(depend on Parliament for the right to rule.)

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Characteristics of Absolute rule

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Divine right to the throne, don’t have to consider the representative assembly

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James I facts

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Son of Mary Queen of Scots, Catholic Sympathies. Rarely called on Parliament-first Stuart monarch. Impositions (taxes)

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James I Religious policy

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1604-Hampton Court Conference-Rebuffed Puritans. Led to an exodus of Puritans going to America for freedom. Published his version of the Bible

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James I Foreign Policy

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Makes peace with Spain, relax penal law to Protestants. Reluctant to send aid to Netherlands in 30 Year’s War. Charles I (son) married to Catholic daughter of Henry VI

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Charles I’s extra-parliamentary measures

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Renewed old taxes, levied new taxes, Quartering troops

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Petition of Right

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1628-Only allowed Parliament to levy taxes

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Religious policies of Charles I

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Religious unity War

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Bishops’ War

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1639-1640 “Short Parliament” for $

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“Long Parliament”

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1640-1660-Impeached and executed Stafford and Laud. Tirenal Act-Require to meet every 3 years. Forced limited monarchy. Militia Ordinance-gave Parliament right to raise an army

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Earl of Stafford

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Chief adviser to Charles I-centralized monarch power from 1629-1640

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William Laud

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Archbishop-Tried imposing episcopal system on all religions, leading to Bishops War

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English Civil War

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1642-1646-Cavaliers-Gentlemen’s warfare. Roundheads-Scottish alliance and New Model Army. 1648-Pride’s Purge

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The New Model Army

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Guerrilla warfare, more unethical but more effective. Alliance to Scotland committed Parliament to Presbyterian church government.

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Pride’s Purge

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1648-Pro-royalist pushed out king’s side Parliament-left with “rump parliament”

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Charles I execution

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Executed on January 30, 1649

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Oliver Cromwell

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Official Puritan republic (1649-1660)-captured Scotland and Ireland. “Lord Protector.” Disbanded Parliament in 1653. Dies in 1658

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Charles II Restoration of the Monarchy

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1660-1685-Anglican instead of Puritan-return to status quo of 1642, secret Catholic sympathies

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Clarendon Code

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Ultra-royalists in Parliament exclude Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, and Independents from official religious and political life

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Treaty of Dover

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1670-England and France allied against the Dutch (commercial competitor). Charles announce conversion to Catholicism–> Louis XIV pays subsidy

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Test Act

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Require civil and military officials to swear against transubstantiation

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The Popish Plot

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1678-Titus Oates (liar) said king’s wife is plotting with Jesuits and Irishmen to kill the king so James (brother) gets throne

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Declaration of Indulgence

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1687-James I suspended the Test Act and permit free worship

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The Glorious Revolution

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1688-WIlliam and Mary signed English BIll of Rights. Toleration Act of 1689 (only Protestants). Promised limited government

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Act of Settlement

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1701-Ensure throne maintains Protestantism-goes to German House of Hanover

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Act of Union

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1707-Made Great Britain (not Northern Ireland)

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Robert Walpole

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Controlled Parliament, royal patronage, pro-royalist, limited monarchy. Established trade with India. Built great navy, got rid of standing army, religious toleration

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Cardinal Armand Richelieu

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Chief Minister to Louis XIII-“heavy-handed centralization”-crush feudal armies

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Louis XIV and French nobility

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Invited them to Versailles-seem like they have a voice in Parelments but notrly

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Louis XIV

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1643-1715-Versailles symbolizes absolutism, religious conformity. Jansenism banned, abandoned Gallican Liberties, Sun King

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Religious policies of Louis XIV

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Abandon Gallican Liberties, Jansenism, Revocation of the Edict of Nantes/Edict of Fontainbleau

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Jansenists

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“Catholic” opposing Jesuit. “Original sin” Predestination, Strict moral life, oppose absolutism

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Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

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Huguenots ministers exiled unless–> Catholic. Protestants forced to servitude unless–> Catholic. Protestants who refused-children baptized

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Finance Minister of Louis XIV

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Jean-Baptiste Colbert (mercantilism)

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Wars fought by Louis XIV

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War of Devolution (1667-8)-Spanish dowry. Franco-Ducth War (1672-79) Nine Years’ War (1689-97)-Alsace. War of Spanish Succession- (1701-1714)-Unite Spain and France

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Le Fronde

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1649-1652-Rebels spear-headed by nobles, some clergy, and townspeople. Peasants join in. Widespread rebellion

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War of Spanish Succession

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Grandson Philip V succeeds Charles II

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After Louis XIV

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John Law messed up fiscal-Mississippi Bubble

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John Law

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Print paper money for stocks, trade coins-into Mississippi Company-not enough coins-MS Bubble-Depression

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17th Century Central and Eastern Europe

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Economically less advanced, agrarian, fewer cities, weak political authority, shifting loyalties, no oversea empires or trade

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Dynasties of Central and Eastern Europe

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Austrian Hapsburg, Hohenzollern (Prussia)

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17th Century Poland Politics

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“Elective monarchy”-foreigners and tool of foreign power made it non-elective. Sejm-Liberum veto (Member opposition could require body to disband)

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Pragmatic Sanction

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Depend less on cooperation of empires. Haspburg Empire-Consolidated power outside of HRE

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Rulers of Prussia

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(r. 1640-1688)-Frederick William “The Great Elector”-established central uniting power
(r. 1688-1713)-Frederick I-War of Spanish Succession-Let HRE control his army for title “King in Prussia”
(r. 1713-1740)-Frederick William I-Army and monarchy 1 entity-huge army
(r. 1740-1786)-Frederick II/Great-Invade Silesia-create Austrian-Prussian rivalry

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Junkers

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German noble landlords-dominated army officer crops. “Junker Nobility” made army+monarchy 1-military priorities

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Reign of Ivan IV in Russia

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“Time of Troubles”-Michael Romanov

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Boyars

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Influential nobles

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Warm-water port before Peter the Great

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White sea port Archangel

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Romanov dynasty

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Streltsy

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Military elite officers of Moscow

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Peter I (r. 1682-1725)

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~to Louis XIV-Centralize, tame boyars and streltsy, miklitarization

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“Westernization”

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Brought western ideals-assimilate to western culture

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Streltsy Uprising

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(1698)-Insurgents tortured and executed-dispel thoughts of rebellion. Drafted 300,000 troops for army loyal to him

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Warm-Water Port Quest

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The Great Northern War (1700-1721)-Sweden-Battle of Poltava-Peace of Nystad-Gave Russia, Estonia, Lavonia, Finland-secured warm-water port

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St. Petersburg

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New capital of empire modeled after Versailles. Made boyars to live there

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Reforms of Peter the Great

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8 Administrative Colleges-Place Boyars and Russian Orthodox Church under him-expand royal bureaucracy. Table of Ranks-Changed requirements of royal status. The Holy Synod-Religious government body-bishops loyal to Peter-replace patriarch

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Peter the Great’s Legacy

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Expanded territory, Warm water port on Baltic, title gone from noble and elite, Made Russia relevant, didn’t form a stable modern state

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The Scientific Revolution differs from most revolutions

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Different way of thinking about old ideas, slow, few hundred people, informal/unorganized, widespread in subject and geography

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Major focus of the scientific revolution

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What were scientists called?

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Natural philosphers

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Ptolemaic System

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Geocentrism-used physical cosmology of Aristotle and mathematic astronomy from Ptolemy. Catholic Church made it doctrine

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Geocentrism

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Believed scripturally. Used Epicycles and Deferents to expalin apparent backward motion of planets

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Nicholaus Copernicus

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Polish astronomer and priest. Heliocentrism

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Copernicus’ literary work

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1543-“On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”-said sun is at the center

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Tycho Brahe

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Denmark astronomer-last naked eye astronomer. Mixed Geo+Helio-Mercury and Venus revolved around the Sun, which in turn revolves around the earth-advocate geo. Recorded astronomical data

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Johannes Kepler

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1609-“The New Astronomy”-eliptical orbits

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Galileo Galilei

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1609-Improved the telescope. Named stars of Jupiter “Medici Stars” Justify everything mathematically

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Galileo’s literary works

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“Letters on Sunspots”, “Starry Messenger”, “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems”

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Isaac Newton

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1687-“Principia Mathematica”-Universal gravitation. Empiricism.

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Mechanism

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See world as clock and God is great watchmaker. Before, seed is symbolic-now improving life not salvation

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Francis Bacon

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“Father of Empiricism”-Scientific Method. Specific–>General. 1620-Novum Organum. Utilitarian. Men of Dogmas and Experiment

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Rene Descartes

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French. “Discourse on Method” (1637)-attack scholasticism-use math learning. Deductive reasoning (general–>specific). “I think, therefore I Am”

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Descartes’ dualism

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Cartesian dualism-things that occupy space and thought-material things are natural philosphers

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Thomas Hobbes

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1651-Leviathan-Absolute monarchy best from of gov. Men all selfish

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John Locke’s literary works

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“Two Treaties of Government”-1st-denounce patriarchal gov. and divine right, etc. 2nd-favored limited government and natural rights (life, liberty, property, rebel). “Letter Concerning Toleration-optimistic view of people-not Catholic toleration

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Tabula Rasa

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The Blank-Slate theory-start of Behaviorism.

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Women in Scientific Revolution

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Nonexistent, some overheard courts with scientists

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Maria Winkelmann

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Astronomer-discovered a comet in 1702

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Most famous “Institute of Sharing”

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Royal Society of London

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Queen Christina of Sweden

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Brought Rene Descartes of Stockholm

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Margaret Cavendish

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Most accomplished woman

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Galileo’s trial

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1633-recanted and under house arrest

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Blaise Pascal

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Pensees-There is loving God, Mankind unworthy. Refute Jesuits who minimized sins. Jansenist sympathies. Critical of Deists-not enough faith

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Pascal’s Wager

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Better to belive in God than not just in case

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Physico-theology

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Religious thought deducted from observing nature. Science–>Rational God–>Rational Humanity–>Scientific Innovation=Better Life

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Witch Hunts-when, factors, where

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1400-1700-Plague, Religious turmoil, superstition, villages of western Europe

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Witch Hunts-Who

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70-100 thousand executed, 80% women mostly >40 years old, single, widowed, midwives, “Cunning Folk” (healer/herbalist) Malefice

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Witch Hunts-End

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End from atrocious severity and scientific revolution

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Baroque style

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Natural-17th century

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Baroque artists

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Michelangelo Caravaggio, Louis LeNain, Gian Lorenzo Berini, Peter Paul Rubens

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Baroque monuments

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St. Peter’s Basilica, Banqueting Hall in London, Versailles

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Charles I’s execution

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January 30, 1649

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English Civil War

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1642-1646/49

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Restoration

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Glorious Revolution

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Act of Union

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Pragmatic Sanction

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Great Northern War

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Witch Hunts

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Trial of Galileo

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War of Devolution

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Franco-Dutch War

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Nine Years’ War

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War of Spanish Succession

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