Final Flashcards
Star chamber
“No Juries and quick decisions”
Isabella and Ferdinand
King and queen funded Columbus voyage
Printing press
The illiterate could be influenced by the printed word through public readings
Columbian exchange
Exchange of plants and animals
Francois Rabelais
Gargantua and pantegruel
Christian humanism
“To Change society you must change human beings book :the praise of folly”
Thomas Moore
Utopia
Desiderius Erasmus
Dutch. Greatest rep of Christian humanism
Martin Luther
Translated the entire Bible into German and encourage families to read the Bible on their own without clergy
Faith Alone
Justifies the believer
Ulrich Zwingli
Asserted none of the sacraments was a “channel of Grace”
John Calvin
Wrote : institutes of the Christian religion
Ignatius Loyola
Wrote :spiritual exercises , which deals with :discipline and training necessary to be a good Christian and he founded : Jesuit order the society of Jesus
Anabaptists
Rejected government involvement. Believed in complete separation of church and state
Gustavus adolphus
Led Sweden in the 30 years war. died in that war
Spanish Armada
Phillip II’s invasion of England
Catherine de Medici
St Bartholomew Day massacre: Catherine lured Protestants to Paris under the pretext of reconciliation. She murdered Protestant leaders and 20,000 murdered throughout France
Mercantilism
The world contained a Fixed amount of wealth and each nation could enrich itself only at the expense of others
Louis XIII
Henry IV 9’-year-old son who succeeded him
Intendents
Chief agents in the government in French regions
Elizabeth I
Relative peace during her reign
- Reintroduced Anglicanism to England
- Her opposition to Spain culminated in England defeat of the Spanish Armada
James I
Responsible for the King James version translation of the Bible
Ivan the terrible
- Used military power to expand the power of the czar
- Russia remained feudal; peasants were still serfs
- Greek Orthodox Church totally subordinate to Ivan
- Ivan welcomed English merchants
- ivan invited craftsman from the west to teach western techniques
- Expanded territory to Ural mtns