New Times Europe Multiple Choice Flashcards
What were organizations developed to protect buisness peoples and regulate buisness practices?
Guilds
What is the focus on the here and now?
Secularism
Commercial Revoulution?
Change for feudalism and Manoralism to buisness trade.
Spain, Portugal, England, Netherlands, and France established?
American, African, and asian colonies
When people pay weavers to make goods at own homes?
Domestic system
Humanism?
The movement in Liturature; belived people could improve their lives through a combo of classical studies and new expiriences
Printing Press
Movable type; Gutenberg invention;
Hugenots
French Calvinists;
Puritans
English Calvinists
Spanish Inquisition
this court examined converted Jews and Muslims to determine if they were secretly practicing their former religions; court officials often tortured subjects until they confessed to things that they did not do
Nation-State
strict boundaries, unified rule and permanent armies. The citizens spoke the same language, shared cultural traits, felt national loyalty and in some cases practiced the same religion.
Common Wealth
Cromwell made England into a government called common wealth
Petition of rights
Prohibited a ruler from imposing taxes without parliments consent; It also stated that no one could be sent to prison unless the charges were made public
Magna Carta
This charter stated that rights of barons and in time the rights of the common people ; no one could be sent to prison without a jury trial
Habeas corpus act
Gave and arrested people the right to appear before a judge with a certain period of time; the judge would then decide on trial or release.
