Lesson 3

Question 1

City state

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An independent state consisting of a city and the surrounding territory

Question 2

Feudalism

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Social system based on principle of land for service

Question 3

Jude’s Christian

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Involved beliefs of both Christianity and Judaism

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Nation state

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Sovereign state in which citizens have significant simulators in terms of language and common descent

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Private morality

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Virtues of inner faith and obedience to gods law

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Public morality

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Virtues important for acting in a community

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Founders knew that differing religious beliefs had caused

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Serious political problems

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Judeo christian morality emphasized

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Private morality rather than public morality

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Christian teachings stressed

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Dignity and worth of each human being

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Founders commitment to liberty and individual rights sprang from their belief in

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Christian ideals

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Capitalism

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Means of producing and distributing goods are privately owned and operated for profit in competitive markets

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Government in Middle Ages followed hierarchical pattern known as

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Feudalism

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Medieval thinkers borrowed the classical idea of

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Harmony between each individual and the whole of society: “Christian republic”

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They borrowed the idea of Plato that some parts of society are

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More important than others but thy all are necessary for the food of the whole

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Essential ideas of feudalism

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Society divided into classes and groups
Hierarchical
Social relationships were permanent and hereditary
Rights and duties tied to group membership of particular grants of land

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During the Renaissance some people began to place greater importance on the

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Individual rather than the class or group they were born into

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Growing possibilities for individual opportunity led to increased interest in

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Philosophers and jurists in he rights of individuals

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There was a reexamination of individuals relationship to

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Religious institutions and governments

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The Protestant reformation was another stimulus to

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Modern individualism

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Being able to read the Bible for oneself encouraged

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Greater freedom of conscience

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All individuals were seen as

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Equal in the eyes of God

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Reformation contributed to creation of modern individualism by inspiring

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Spirit of free inquiry and individual conscience

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In 1648 the peace of Westphalia end the thirty years war which had been fought since

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1618 in what is currently Germany

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Peace of Westphalia marked the beginning of the modern system of

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Nation states

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Peace of Westphalia recognized

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National sovereignty, right of each nation state to an independent existence

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Each nation state would

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Respect others and each nation state would choose their own institutions

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Rise o nation state was important to the

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Development of modern ideas about government and rights

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In capitalism goods and services are

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Freely exchanged

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Capitalism offered more

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Opportunities to people and allowed them to pay attention to private interests

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Natural rights philosophy and Protestant religion both contributed to the

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Rise of capitalism

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Age of Enlightenment

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Flourishing scientific and intellectual movement

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Francis bacon believed in the power of

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Human reason and observation to understand and control nature

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Bacons goal was to

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Subdue nature for the benefit of humanity

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Belief in science and reason also influenced the

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Study of human nature and government

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Locke and Hobbes ideas founded notion that human behavior could be

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Understood predicted and controlled

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Montesquieu argued that the form of a society’s government corresponds to the

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Social economic and geographic conditions of that society

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American founders believes that reason and observation would enable them to

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Understand the workings of governmental and social institutions