FINAL EXAM Flashcards
Black Death
Date: 1347-1351
Description: A bubonic plague that struck 14th century Europe
Preconditions: Overpopulation, Three-Field System, Famine, Malnutrition
Characteristics: Discoloration of the body, effects on lungs
Cause/Spread: Fleas infected rats that bore on ships from the Black Sea. Trade and self-flagellation spread it further.
Hundred Years’ War
Description: War between England and France over who controlled territory and had claim over French throne. Struggle for national identity.
Causes: Edward III exerting his claim to the French throne, proximity, land boundaries.
Result: France wins national identity. England becomes more independent with their textile industry.
Length: May 1337 - October 1453
Great Schism
Description: A period when there were two contending popes, Pope Urban VI (Italian) and Clement VII (French)
Effects/Consequences: Church lost credit
Years: 1378-1417
Renaissance
Rebirth of classical and ancient culture/learning. Transition from medieval to modern times. A gradual release of the full whole nature of man. Revival of ancient learning and culture. Rebirth of Greco-Roman culture.
Machiavelli
- Nationalist: wanted to unite Italy
- Humanist: Loved Roman political history
- Republican: Believed that an elected body of edu. officials would be best for Italy. Not a democracy, because most of the laity was uneducated.
- Wrote “The Prince” (Dedicated to Lorenzo the Magnificent’s grandson, this work justified the use of fear for rulers to maintain power.)
Regions of conflict between the “One” vs. the “Many”
The “One” Wins: France, England, Spain.
The “Many” Win: HRE
Printing press
- Johann von Guttenburg developed it
- Increased the literacy of the laity (peasantry)
- Printer’s Guild had great economic success.
- Humanists could now spread their ideas over borders
- Used for propaganda
Prince Henry the Navigator
Established trading posts on the coast of western Africa.
Amerigo Vespucci
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Bartholomew Dias
Traveled to the Malabar coast of India and brought back spices.
Ferdinand Magellan
Circumnavigated the world
Columbus
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Common goal of 13th-15th century lay religious movements
Imitation of Christ, go back to the basic life modeled after Christ
Brothers of the Common Life
Based on the New Testament model of Jesus, a lay religious life of prayer and study without surrendering the world, retained old clerical doctrines and values but placed them within the new framework of an active common life, met a need for more personal piety and a more informed religious life
Thomas a Kempis
Wrote Imitation of Christ, which summarized the philosophy of the Modern Devotions/Brothers of the Common Life
Martin Luther
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Peace of Augsburg
- Granted German nobles the right to choose between Lutheranism and Roman Catholicism as the religion of their realm.
John Calvin
- Wrote “The Institutes of a Christian Religion” which acted as the base doctrinal work for other Protestants
- Believed in predestination
Henry VIII
- Tudor Dynasty
- Wrote “Defense of the Seven Sacraments” and was declared Defender of the Faith
- Established the Church of England
- Had six wives
Council of Trent
- 1545-1563
- Made no doctrinal concessions/re-affirmed all 7 sacraments
- Established internal church discipline
Spakespeare
- Playwright during the reign of Elizabeth I
- Moderate view on politics
- Plays
1597: Romeo and Juliet
1603: Hamlet
1604: Othelo
1605: King Lear
1606: Macbeth
Elizabeth I
- Politique
- Elizabethan Settlement: Restored the Anglican Church with a combination of Protestant teachings and Catholic power hierarchies (the presence of a bishop, an archbishop, priests, etc. - all having varied degrees of power)
Henry IV
- Major Achievement: Edict of Nantes - granted religious toleration to Huguenots and the right to fortify their cities
- Phrase: “Paris is worth a Mass.”
- Politique
Treaty of Westphalia
End of Thirty Years’ War.
Dutch Netherlands (16th-17th century)
- Seven northern provinces united after a revolt against Spain and declared themselves the United Provinces
- Main religion: Calvinism
- Economic Prosperity: High urban consolidation, transformed agriculture, trade and finance, and an overseas commercial empire.
English Civil War
- 1642-1646/49
- Cavaliers (supporters of the king) vs Roundheads (Parliamentary support)
- Oliver Cromwell led the Roundheads and won using guerrilla warfare.
Louis XIV
- John-Baptiste Colbert
- Wars
1667-68: War of Devolution
1672-79: Franco-Dutch War
1689-97: Nine Years War
1701-1714: War of Spanish Succession
Pragmatic Sanction
- Put in place by Charles VI to guarantee that Hapsburg lands were united and that Maria Theresa (his daughter) would inherit the throne safely.
Peter the Great
- Legacy:
- Expanded Russian territory
- Army
- Water port
- Window to the west
- Made Russia relevant to European affairs
- Reforms
- Administrative Colleges - Bodies of royal officials selected from royal nobles and subjects. Looked over economy, military, and domestic and foreign affairs. Operated under explicit orders from Peter.
- Table of Ranks (1722) - Tied one’s social rank to their service to the state.
- The Holy Synod - Religious government body which replaced the head bishop of the church. Made up of groups of bishops directed by Peter to run the church.
Scientific Revolution
- Description: The process that established the new view of the universe. Often reexamining and rethinking theories and data from the ancient world.
Reneé Descartes
- Method of Deduction
- Thinking things vs Things occupying space
- Wrote “Discourse on Method” which rejected scholastic philosophy and education. Advocated thought founded on a mathematical model.
Galileo
- Laws of motion and inertia
- Publicly advocated for the Copernicus view of the universe (heliocentrism)
- Forced to recant his belief of heliocentrism in 1633 by Pope Urban VIII
- House arrest
Witchhunts
- Causes: Superstition, speculation of unknown, used as scapegoats, gap of high magic (church) to low magic (civilian).
- Targets: Mostly women, 40 years or older that were single or widowed, midwives, “cunning folk” healers or herbalists.
- Decline: The new science brought reasoning.
Baroque art and artists
- Mechanism of Catholic counter-Reformation
- Naturalistic as opposed to idealized. Interest in natural knowledge associated with the rise of the new science and the deeper understanding of human anatomy.
- Michelangelo Caravaggio
- St. Peter’s Basilica