Midterm Flashcards
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Renaissance
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Humanism Secular Art Leo da Vinci Rebirth Machiavelli: harsh and cruel The ends justify the means
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Middle Ages
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Feudalism
Black Plague
Church had total power
A increase in trading
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Protestant reformation
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Martin Luther 95 theses End Christian unity The end of selling indulgences The power of the church decreases
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Peter the great
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Westernized
Modernized
Russia
St. Petersburg
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Zheng he
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Chinese explorer
Ming dynasty
Stopped exploration
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Feudalism/Tokugawa
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Samurai Shogun Bushido Tokugawa isolate Japan
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Scientific revolution
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Galileo, Copernicus Heliocentric Descartes and bacon: Sci method Newton-laws of motion and gravity Kepler- discovered elliptical planetary motion
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Absolutism
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Louis 14 France
Sun king
Centralized power
Divine right
Palace of Versailles
Henry 8 England- killed all of his wife’s
Ivan the terrible Russia- killed his son for power
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Glorious revolution
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England Decrease in the power of the king Limited monarchy Constitutional Parliamentary Magna Carta The English bill of rights King James 2- absolute ruler who tried making