Midterm Study Guide Flashcards
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Renaissance
- French word for “rebirth”
- new age for the modern world
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Italian Renaissance
- began in Italy because it had money
- advancements in art/architecture
- advancements in humanism/individualism
- Revived by Greek and Romans
- Renaissance began in Italy
- specialization and trade rose
- created city-states in Italy for commerce
- Venice became a trade hub & known for boats/religious topics
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Why Italy
- Center of Roman Empire
- italian city states were best suited for the
renaissance because:
- they weren’t neglected/damaged after the medieval times
- they were wealthy trade centers (peninsula)
- they were home to major roman artifacts
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Northern vs. Southern Renaissance
- northern- more peaceful and interested in day to day life and what they saw
- south- more interested in religion
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Francesco Petrarch
- Father of humanism
- reintroduced the work of cicero virgil (poet), and - - homer (author) (Western Europeans)
- Florentine in the 1300s
- wrote his own literature- “Sonnets to Laura”- love poems
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Leonardo da Vinci
- Quintessential “Renaissance Man”
- Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, writer, scientist
- works: Mona Lisa, Last Supper- worked tirelessly
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Michelangelo
- Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
- works: Sistine Chapel, David, Pieta, dome atop St. Peter’s Cathedral
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The Madonnas
- artworks that reference to catholic church and mother mary
- another name for mary
- representations/paintings of Mary, either alone of with Jesus
- representations of Mary, translates to “My Lady”, represents purity, virginity, and loyalty
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Medici
- Medici Family in Florence, “Lorenzo the magnificent”
- patron, financial supporter of the arts
- successful banking business
- Cosimo dé Medici: gained control of Florentine government in 1434
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Thomas More
- Best known for writing “Utopia” that described a world of peace and harmony where everyone was educated
- executed for rejecting Henry VIII’s rule after he left the Catholic Church
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Pieter Bruegel
- painted religious scenes and scenes of peasant life
- used vibrant colors
- continued Flemish trend of depicted common people
- painted scenes from day to day life (peasants growing and planting wheat)
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Machiavelli
- served as a senior official in Florentine government
- observed diplomats, and the kings and princes of other courts
- studied ancient history, highly influenced by the Greek soldier/philosopher Xenophon
- Published “The Prince” in 1513, a guide to being a prince, according to the Machiavelli’s observations and experiences
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Luther’s Position
- encouraged to become an academic to slave off his introspections
- would become a doctor of Theology and succeed his teacher as Chair of Theology
- believed that the Bible was the source of religious truth (not the Roman Catholic Church)
- banned indulgences /confessions /pilgrimages /prayers to saints, simplified mass
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95 Theses
- written by Luther
- mad about the corruption
- drafted 95 theses against indulgences and nailed them to the church door
- written in latin
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Indulgences
not in the Bible, you paid to absolve your sins/go to heaven
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John Calvin
- french priest/lawyer
- published “institutes of Christian religion” which gave advice on how to organize a protestant church with his own beliefs
- Believed that salvation only came from faith
- Bible was the only source of Truth
- believed in predestination
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Henry VII
- Henry VIII was against protestantism
- he denounced Luther
- had multiple wives to get his male heir to the throne
- his advisors were open to Protestant teachings and convinced Parliament to pass a law making the English church controlled by Henry VIII instead of the Pope
- in 1534 he created the act of Supremacy which decreed Henry as the only Supreme head on Earth of the Church of England
- after his death his son Edward VI became king
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Gutenberg’s impact
- the first complete Bible with the printing press
- He created the movable type printing press
- quickened the spread of knowledge, discoveries, and literacy in Renaissance Europe
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Diet of Worms
- trial of martin luther for having ideas/ teachings for anti roman catholic church ideas/ teachings
- was brought the the city to be questioned on if he wrote these teachings and if he “takes what he said back” (he did not which sparked the reformation even more)
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Peace of Augsburg
- treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the Schmalkaldic League
- signed in September 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg
- don’t care about religious faith, just be loyal to leader
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Catholic Reformation
- aimed at reforming the Catholic Church’s corruption and resulted in the creation of Protestantism, a major branch of Christianity
- results were that made catholic areas more devout than previously, catholic tenets of piety and chanty flourished, and spread of protestantism slowed but left a north/south divide in europe
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Ignatius Loyola
- founder of the jesuits
- example of the catholic reformation
- Roman catholic leaders want to “breed more catholics” to remain strong
- Society of Jesuits was formed to combat heresy and spread catholicism
- they traveled to Protestant lands to spread Catholicism in Asia Africa and America
- piece of catholicism, teach everyone catholicism and teach their kids and their kids
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All Water Route
- the route new explorers took around africa
- tried to get to spice islands without going through land
- quicker trip, more goods, don’t have to pay to go on a road
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Henry the Navigator
- prince explorer from portugal
- set up navigator school at sagres in portugal
- improved ships and traveled down West Africa to spread ideas to the schools
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Spain and Portugal Leading the Way
- The first successful explorers were Spanish and portuguese (Prince Henry the navigator, Bartholomew Diaz, Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Hernan Cortez, Balboa, Christopher Columbus)
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Mercantilism
there are a fixed amount of resources in the world; export more than you import; colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country
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Treaty of Tordesillas
agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.
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Ferdinand Magellan
- Spanish explorer who found a sea route to Spice Island by sailing around the American continent
- First to circumnavigate the world
- when he arrives in the Philippines he was killed
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Christopher Columbus/ Columbian Exchange
- Italian explorer that believed that sailing west to east was the best option to get new sources of wealth.
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Vasco da Gama
- The first to sail directly from Europe to India by going around Africa
- helps create Portuguese foothold in india
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Hernan Cortes
led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.
Entered Mexico w/600 men and 16 horses
Conquered Tenochtitlan(Aztec capital) in 1521
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effect of smallpox
- Very deadly
- made the natives easy prey bc were not exposed to as many germs (ate alpacas llamas)
- Middle Ages in Europe infectious diseases were prevalent therefore making the Europeans genetically better, survival of the fittest
- Europeans also ate pigs / cows / sheep That had a lot of germs
- Helped with the takeover of the Incas and Aztecs by the Spanish.
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Francisco Pizarro
Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas and killed Atahualpa, continued on to Ecuador and Chile.
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Moctezuma
Aztec emperor defeated and killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes.
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Dutch vs. Spanish exploration
- spain was interested in est colonies, new trade routes, money,religion
- dutch wanted money, NOT religion
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Social Classes in New Spain
Peninsulares - born in Spain
Creoles - American-born descendants of Spanish Mestizo - native American and European Mulattoes - African and European
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Qing Dynasty
- final imperial dynasty in China
- started by Manchus
- Enforced culturally restrictive policies: no intermarriage with Chinese and no foot binding. - Qing emphasized teachings and philosophy of Confucius
- Pushed for more exports than imports, hated merchants.
- strong long leading rulers, eventually fell to european encroachment because their technology was not advanced enough (didn’t have guns)
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Tokugawa Shogunate
japanese dynasty; cut off trade with the west, isolationism, persecuted Christians, forbade Japanese from leaving, isolated until Matthew Perry in 1853