EU Drama (Continent) Flashcards
what was the connection between cities and death?
Urban cities are death ticks, people die alot
General population trend in EME?
General population increase after plagues
What do increase of urban statistics tell?
Urbanization is taking place. Less people farming since its becoming more effective
What was Great divergence
Great divergence was gap between Europe compared to world in terms of wealth and pop.
What primary sources were used to figure out statistics?
Censuses, tax records, and parish records
What did Malthus propose caused population growth?
Negative and positive checks that led to food to increase in arithmetic rate which outgrew population rate.
What were positive checks of population growth?
Checks that increased the death rate AKA famine, war, and disease
What were negative checks of population growth?
Things that prevented the birth rate celibacy
What was the pattern of famines in EME?
Local dying regular famines wirth eras of generalized famines
What was European Marriage Pattern? What did it cause?
European marriage pattern. Men and women age become more similar causing Fertility delayed, children reduced.
What was wage culture like in EME? Did wages exist?
Not everyone was paid. Generally wages given to construction workers
Renaissance: What was it?
An intellectutal and cultural movement that rebelled against certain aspects of middle ages
Renaissance: where was it created and cultivated by?
educated, ambitious citizens of Italy’s self-governing urban republics who didnt believe in feudal values
Renaissance: Where did Renaissance humanism come from?
world of business and government
Renaissance: What did the humanists want todo?
revive the study of ancient texts
Renaissance: What was the belief of humanism?
humans need to pay attention to this life and this world.
Renaissance: Who was considered the first humanist and founding member of the Renaissance?
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304–74) is widely considered the first humanist
Renaissance: what sources defined the renaissance?
painting, sculpture, and architecture
Renaissance: What are 4 defining characteristics of renaissance
Naturalism, realism, religous or classical themes, and sense of harmony and balance
Renaissance: How did the state change?
State governed as the product of human agency, rather than natural or divine roots
Renaissance: 4 markers of political moderity
- Sense of imagined community
- recognized territorial boundaries
- stability of institutions
- sovereignty
Reformations: What was the Reformations?
Luther’s criticism of the church that led to the destruction of religious unity that split Europe into Roman Catholics and protestants streams
Reformations: What were the 3 factors that led to the Reformations?
- Powerful secular rulers
- Changes in the churches goals
- More influential peoples
Reformations: Which 3 groups of people led the criticism of the church?
- humanists
- religious leaders
- literate urban middle class
Reformations: What was Luther’s intentions with criticizing the church/
No intention of breaking unity of Christendom
Reformations: What were Luther’s criticisms of the church/
Criticism of their wealth and indulgences
Reformations: Why did Luther deny the validity of charitable works?
He believed Christians were saved not through gods eyes but through god’s grace
Reformations: Which indulgence bothered him specifically?
building of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome
Reformations: What did the 95 Theses protest?
Letter to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz protesting sale of indulgences, who condemns him to heresy
Reformations: How did the 96 Theses pick on?
German translation and printing press
Reformations: What did Luther argue in The Address to the Christian nobility of the German Nation?
Wanting German rulers to reform the church