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Enlightenment

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emerged as an intellectual movement before 1750 but peaked in second half of eighteenth century

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Encyclopedia

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aimed to gather knowledge of science, religion, industry, and society; used knowledge to criticize defects in society; Denis Diderot wrote it

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Philosophes wanted

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freedom of the press and religion because progress depended on these freedoms

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How did Enlightenment ideas spread?

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printed books, pamphlets, hand copied letters, informal readings of manuscripts

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Deists

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believe in a benevolent, all knowing god who’d designed the universe and set it in motion; usually rejected the idea that God directly intercedes in functioning of the universe

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New church architecture know as what emerged during the middle ages?

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Gothic

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Middle ages and rise of the university

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saw the rise of this - students sought knowledge of 7 liberal arts that were broken down into Trivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic) and Quadrennium (arithmetics, astronomy, music theory, geometry) - logic was most appealing

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Common Law

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A legal system based on custom and court rulings - praised for efficiency, speed, and conclusiveness

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Fourth Crusade (1202-1204)

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Western European expedition originally intended to recapture Jerusalem but crusaders ended up conquering Constantinople

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Revolution

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a massive change - social, class, institutions changes - it’s political - change in economics - becomes less about rural sustainability and more about accumulation - see a fracture in class (church, nobility, everyone else)

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The french revolution was

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the beginning of the modern period

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Levee en Masse

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feared revolution and power of the people is demonstrated - Levee en Masse (stop-gap)

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women in the french revolution

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started to play a major role in the revolution - lose their right by the end of it

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french revolution impact on religion

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move towards modern (religion isn’t just archaic it’s unnecessary)

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causes of French revolution

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struggle between ancient absolutism and aristocratic institutions (centers on power to raise money through revolution), enlightenment rhetoric and ideals (start to see reaction of citizen, females are passive citizens), corruption of ruler (Louis 14th), increase of expectations, power of the people (people bring about massive changes - nobility is still irrational during enlightenment)

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Great Fear

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The panic and insecurity that struck French peasants before the revolution - deep economic crisis

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second french revolution and the role that Jacobins had

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The Jacobins were members of an influential political club during the French Revolution. They were radical revolutionaries who plotted the downfall of the king and the rise of the French Republic.

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Sans-culottes

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(members of the jacobins club in france) campaigned for a more democratic constitution, price controls, harsh laws against political enemies

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End of French Revolution

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came to an end after the trials and tribulations of the reign of terror in 1794 - use of force to make people rational was starting to slow down - revolution was slowing down and a need for stability was required

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winners of the revolution french revolution

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middle class (Bourgeoise)

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guilds (french revolution)

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were abolished

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unions (french revolution)

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abolished - ended government regulation in the economy

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losers of the French revolution

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aristocratic, clerical classes

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impacts on the aristocratic class after the french revolution

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lose their feudal property rights in the transition from a feudalist to modern society - titles, courts, and status was revoked

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impacts on the clerical class after the french revolution

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wealth was seized, influence over society weakened - monastic orders suppressed - regulated under civil constitution - clergy was eventually paid for by the state

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remainder of the third estate after the french revolution

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workers lost political rights, guild and union rights - peasants lost feudal rights

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middle class after the french revolution

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started to act like pre-revolutionary aristocratic class (lavish)

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Rise of Napoleon

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staged a coup in 1799 - part of the Jacobin club that supported revolutionary ideas - brilliant military thinker and strategist - spread revolutionary ideas to other areas

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Napoleon and Religion (Catholic)

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first diplomatic decision to bring back catholic church through a concordat with Pope Pius VII in 1801 - scrapped religion of reason - open church seminaries again - still declared France as a secular state in terms of education - church must tolerate other religions leading to a peaceful relationship between church and state

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Law (Code Napoleon)

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reversed most of the changes that the french revolution brought - women in particular lost many rights due to this code

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state education

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as opposed to church-run education that was seen behaviour, education became state controlled

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bureaucracy during napoleans rule

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all adult males have the right to vote - only men loyal to Napoleon were placed on the ballot - if you vote, you were voting for Napoleon

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fall of Napoleon

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first major defeat for him was in Spain, not Russia - Spanish people revolted with the help of the British - Spanish nationalism rose because of the cruelty of French occupiers - Guerilla began fighting

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industrialization

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shaped our perception of time and space - forced the created of new human beings

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shift to centralize factory-based production required two things

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new economic order + new orientation of workers

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new orientation of workers

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workers before tended to be non-accumulative - didn’t acquire things - worked for subsistence

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most commonly used deterrent in factories used

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biggest one was dismissal (not used in factories), enormously effective because of labour shortage and that there was no safety net

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incentives (industrial revolution)

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children tended to be given snuff (tobacco you can sniff) - promotion is also one

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new ethos

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effort to reform the whole human being (works well in places with one factory)

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the point of the industrial revolution

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isn’t just about machines and making stuff but that it’s centred on the need to create new human beings to turn people in a way into machines to change the way of working

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Industrial Revolution

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the conquest of nature (humans escaping from the vagaries of nature) - a violent shift - the ending of traditional practices that was forced upon people (power over nature)

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Technologically driven (industrial revolution)

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most common, traditional and simplistic explanation - the idea that one foundational invention (Steam engine) was the cause of industrialization

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Who created the steam engine?

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James Watt

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What did the steam engine do?

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brought a change from nature to freedom and reliability on mechanical power

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railways (industrial revolution)

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drive the industrial revolution - enormous impact on industrialization

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short term impacts of railways in the industrial revolution

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construction, heavy phase industrialization, end of alternative transportation, speculative manias

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long term impacts of railways in the industrial revolution

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commerce stimulated by communication, agriculture, railways developed as export product, urban growth encouraged, social implication, travel habit

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Aristocracy in Britain during industrial revolution

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tended to be more open to new ideas, open to investment, investing in railways canals and weren’t afraid to invest money

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Dominate

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openly authoritarian style of Roman rule

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Tetrarchy

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Emperor Diocletian’s division of the Roman Empire into four seperate administrative districts

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Great Persecution

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violent program started by Diocletian to make christians convert to traditional religion

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Edict of Milan

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decreeing free choice of religion in the Roman empire

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Arianism

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A heresy common during the first Christian centuries that denied that Jesus was truly God.

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Baptism (rise of doctrine)

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ritually cleansing of past life - purifying rite of initiation

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Matter

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isn’t divine

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Formation of The Christian canon

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rise in church hierarchy + administration had a parallel development - rise in biblical authority

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Jewish community was divided

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sadducees + hasidim

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Hasidism

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rejected all compromises and interaction with foreign rule - expected arrival of messiah

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Zealots

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group of hasidim - lead an armed resistance to Roman rule

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Enlightenment was a time period of

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enormous optimism, age of reason, and age of conflict

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someone who wouldn’t want an enlightenment

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anglican church and catholic and the monarchy

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Books of the Enlightenment

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they were cheaper so people began to read more - newspapers became radical and dangerous because they could reach many different people - governments wanted to control newspapers - would break printing presses to assert control and resist the enlightenment

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philosophes

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A group of radical thinkers and writers in France in the eighteenth century, including Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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salons

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people get together and discuss ideas

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redistributive economy

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A system in which state officials control the production and distribution of goods

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linear B

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Mycenaean writing system

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mediterranean polyculture

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The cultivation of olives, grapes, and grains in a single, interrelated agricultural system

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Moral Dualism

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The belief that the world is the arena for an ongoing battle for control between divine forces of good and evil

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Torah

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first five books of Hebrew bible - early Jewish law

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Diaspora

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A dispersion of Jewish people from their homeland

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helot

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Spartan slave

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Archaic age

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saw the creation of the Greek city state Polis

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baroque

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An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements

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Edict of Nantes

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The decree issued by French king Henry IV in 1598 that granted the Huguenots a large measure of religious toleration.

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Heliocentrism

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The view articulated by Polish clergyman Nicolaus Copernicus that the earth and planets revolve around the sun

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Lepanto

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It broke the Ottoman Empire’s domination of the eastern Mediterranean

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politiques

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Political advisers during the sixteenth-century French Wars of Religion who argued that compromise in matters of religion would strengthen the monarchy

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Puritans

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strict calvinists - 16th century opposed all vestiges of Catholic ritual in church of england

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Peace of Westphalia

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The settlement (1648) of the Thirty Years’ War; it established enduring religious divisions in the Holy Roman Empire by which Lutheranism would dominate in the north, Calvinism in the area of the Rhine River, and Catholicism in the south

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French Wars of Religion

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were a series of eight conflicts between Protestant and Catholic factions in France lasting 36 years and concluding with the Protestant King Henry IV

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thirty years war

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(1618-1648) War within the Holy Roman Empire between German Protestants and their allies (Sweden, Denmark, France) and the emperor and his ally, Spain; ended in 1648 after great destruction with Treaty of Westphalia.

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absolutism

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a system of government in which a ruler holds total power

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Bureaucracy

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a network of state officials carrying out orders according to a regular and routine line of authority

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Classicism

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17th century style of painting and architecture - emotional forms of the baroque

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Constitutionalism

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A system of government in which rulers share power with parliaments made up of elected representatives

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Glorious Revolution

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James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William of Orange representing a shift from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy

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Levellers

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Disgruntled soldiers in Cromwell’s New Model Army who wanted to “level” social differences and extend political participation to all male property owners

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Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

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French king Louis XIV’s 1685 decision to eliminate the rights of Calvinists granted in the edict of 1598; Louis banned all Calvinist public activities and forced those who refused to embrace the state religion to flee

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social contract

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all political authority derives not from divine right but from an implicit contract between citizens and their rulers

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Mercantilism

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economic doctrine that governments must intervene to increase national wealth by whatever means possible

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delian league

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The naval alliance led by Athens in the Golden Age that became the basis for the Athenian Empire

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triremes

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Greek warships

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perciples

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athens political leader during the golden age

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agora

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central market square of a greek city-state, popular gathering place for conversation

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parthenon

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massive temple to athena - built during the golden age

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mystery cults

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Religious worship that provided initiation into secret knowledge and divine protection, including hope for a better afterlife

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metic

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foreigner in a Greek city-state granted permanent residence in return for paying taxes and serving in the military

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Socratic Method

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Socrates method of teaching by asking questions “what is courage”

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Metaphysics

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Philosophical ideas about the ultimate nature of reality beyond the reach of human senses

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dualism

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philosophical idea that the human soul and body are separate

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lyceum

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Aristotle’s school - school for research

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epigrams

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Short poems written by women in the Hellenistic Age; many were about other women and the writer’s personal feelings

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materialism

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philosophical doctrine (hellenistic age) that denied metaphysics and claimed only things existing of matter truly exist

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Epicureanism

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philosophy founded by Epicurus in Hellenistic Athens - help people achieve a life of true pleasure - absence of disturbance

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stoicism

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Hellenistic philosophy - believed in fate but also in pursuing excellence through good sense, justice, courage, temperance

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ruler cults

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Cults that involved worship of a Hellenistic ruler as a savior god

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patron-client system

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the interlocking network of mutual obligations between Roman patrons and clients

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patria potestas

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the surpreme power that a Roman father held over his family

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Plebiscites

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Resolutions passed by the Plebeian Assembly; such resolutions gained the force of law in 287 B.C.E.

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Philosophes

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used reason to attack superstition, bigotry, religious fanaticism which they considered biggest obstacles to free thought and social reform

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Optimates

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The Roman political faction supporting the “best,” or highest, social class; established during the late republic

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proletarians

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In the Roman republic, the mass of people so poor they owned no property

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First Triumvirate

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The coalition formed in 60 B.C.E. by Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar. (The word triumvirate means “group of three.”)

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Pax Romana

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roman peace - two centuries of relative peace and prosperity in the roman empire under the early principate begun by augustus

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Principate

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Roman political system invented by Augustus as a disguised monarchy with the princeps (“first man”) as emperor

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Praetorian guard

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the group of soldiers stationed in rome under the emperors control - first formed by Augustus

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Colosseum

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Rome’s fifty-thousand-seat amphitheater built by the Flavian dynasty for gladiatorial combats and other spectacles

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Decurions

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Municipal Senate members in the Roman Empire responsible for collecting local taxes

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Romanization

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the spread of roman law and culture in the provinces of the roman empire

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Martyr

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Greek for “witness” - term for someone who dies for his/her religious beliefs

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Apolistic Succession

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the principle by which christian bishops traced their authority back to the apostles of Jesus

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Neoplatonism

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Plotinus’s spiritual philosophy, based mainly on Plato’s ideas, which was very influential for Christian intellectuals

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orthodoxy

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True doctrine; specifically, the beliefs defined for Christians by councils of bishops

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debasement of coinage

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putting less silver in a coin without changing its face value; a failed financial strategy during the third century C.E. crisis in Rome

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The creation of the principate

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Senate recognized Octavian’s power and asked him to safeguard the state - special civil and military powers - honorary title of Augustus (divinely favoured)

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English civil war

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deadliest conflict in English history

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Hobbes state of nature

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state of war “every man against every man” - total freedom results in war

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Locke State of Nature

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life, liberty, estate

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Locke social contract

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overthrow government if it isn’t working

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Hobbes social contract

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give sovereign consent, restrict freedoms, have peace, royal perogative

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Carolingian Dynasty

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A Frankish dynasty founded by Charlemagne’s father that ruled from 751 to 987.

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Seljuk Turks

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Nomadic invaders from central Asia via Persia; staunch Sunnis; ruled in name of Abbasid caliphs from mid-11th century.

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Fourth Crusade

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A Crusade from 1202 to 1204 that was diverted into a battle for Constantinople and failed to recapture Jerusalem causing damage to Byzantine Empire. The Venetians profited greatly.

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Mecca

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City in western Arabia. Birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, and ritual center of the Islamic religion.

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Medina

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City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.

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Commercial Revolution

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A dramatic change in the economy of Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. It is characterized by an increase in towns and trade, the use of banks and credit, and the establishment of guilds to regulate quality and price.

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Crusades

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A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule.

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Signori

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Lords of Italian cities. As the Italian communes of the 13th century became increasingly fractiious, regional nobles saw this friction as politically advantageous and offered to become the lords of the cities. Their accession to power was often accomplished peacefully, as most communes were willing to accept repression for a lasting peace.

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Great Famine

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A terrible famine in 1315-1322 that hit much of Europe after a period of climate change. Led to heavy persecution of Jews.

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Black Death

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A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351.
Hundred Years War

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Catholic Renewal

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The counter-reformation the church went through in light of the Renaissance. They prohibited certain books and spread their message even more powerfully.

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Spanish Fury

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The greatest atrocity of the war between Spain and the Netherlands. Spanish mercenaries ran amok in Antwerp, leaving 7,000 people dead.

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Concordat of Worms

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A compromise between the king and the Pope that started that the church alone could grant a bishop his ring and staff (church power) but his power could be vetoed by the king.

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The Reign of Terror

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The Reign of Terror, also called the Terror, was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution

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