History Midterms Flashcards
Italy status during Renaissance
City states attacked by power-brokers
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
Influences of Renaissance
Writing in everyday language and no latin
Major city states during Renaissance
Venice, Milan, Florence
Results of Renaissance
Architecture still found in Florence
Michelangelo famous works
David
Machiavelli famous works
The prince
Powerful families during Renaissance
Medici, Borgia, sforza
Renaissance def and influence
Rebirth
Greek Roman
Anabaptists
Don’t get baptized as child (put water on them)
Adult baptism
Calvinism
John Calvin, Swiss, believed in predestination
How are reformation and Renaissance connected
Renaissance builds up reformation
Renaissance art characteristics
Anatomy, individualism, secularism, humanism, classicism, nature, youth
King Henry VIII
English church
Needed to have divorce become legal to remarry and get son
Fewer sacraments, clergy could marry
Luther
95 theses Clergy could marry Fewer sacraments Good work led to salvation Made Lutheranism
Peace of Augsburg
States that had religion chosen by their princes
Protestantism
Everyone who broke away from Catholic Church
Puritans
Even “less” than protestants
Roman Catholic counter reformation
Accused clergy, sold indulgences, tried to reunite Catholic Church but Protestant got to popular
Capital of Aztec Mexico
Tenochtitlan
Colombian exchange
Large trade between Africa, Europe, America
Indians disease
Small pox
Euro leaders in exploration
Portugal and Spain
First English colony in America
Jamestown
Largest civ in Americas
Aztecs and inca
Middle passage
Brutal trip from Africa to America for slave trade
Reasons for African slaves
Culture exchange
Introduces to African slaves through moors
Conquistadors
Cortes-Aztec
Pizzaro-inca
Divine right of kings
God gave ruler position of power
Edict of Nantes
Granted Huguenots Rights
Glorious revolution
William&Mary took the throne from James II
James II
Took throne after Oliver Cromwell
Louis XIV
Absolute monarch, built Versailles and bankrupted nation
Maria Theresa
Austrian leader that was influenced by enlightenment and absolutism
Cromwell
Made common wealth
Peter and Catherine the great
Ruled Russia
Created Capitol and centralized government
English gov in 17 and 18 century
Civil war leads to constitutional monarchy
Adam smith
Wrote in wealth of nations which focuses on economic systems and effect of government
Checks and balances
Idea of splitting gov up into executive, legislative and judicial branches
Deism
Idea that God created universe with laws and left it alone
Enlightenment
Movement which lead to new ways of politics, religion, government, and social issues
Galileo
Got in trouble with church for saying that sun is in middle and not earth
Geocentric theory
Earth is in center
Heliocentric theory
Sun is in middle
Newton
Gravity laws
Rousseau
Social contract
Karl marx
Communism
Laissez-faire
To let people do what they want
Montesquieu
Classification of government
Monarchy
Republic
Dictatorship
Copernicus
First to argue that sun is in middle
Louis XVI
Didn’t like 3rd estate and got killed later
Reign of terror
Robespierre’s reign
Killed 40,000 people
Industrialization
Man made products became popular
Industrial rev inventions
Cotton gin
Seed drill
Spinning Jenny
Flying shuttle
Labor union
Group of people that try to make working conditions less rough
Urbanization
Large amount of people moving to a place just for living
Working class
Workers who worked the factories