Period 4 1450-1750 Flashcards
When did the Italian Renaissance occur?
14th and 15th centuries
Describe political policy during the renaissance.
City-state rulers sought. New forms to advance well-being of political territory civic conscientiousness; diplomacy; balance of power
What did the Italian Renaissance do?
challenged medieval values and styles and promoted a secular/vernacular education and literature
How did the educational curriculum change during the renaissance?
- humanities replaced scholasticism of medieval scholarship
- studied theology, médecine and law
List three writers from the Italian Renaissance.
- Petrarch- love poems to Laura
- Boccaccio- Decameron
- Castilione- The Courtier
How did painting and art change during the Italian renaissance?
- new realism in painting and artistic accomplishment
- Individualism and perspective
List two Italian renaissance painters.
Da Vinci and Michelangelo
Describe political theory and history during the Italian Renaissance.
- Machiavelli- The Prince, similar to Chinese legalists
- Historians favor critical thinking for explaining the past
Describe commerce during the Italian Renaissance.
-merchants and bankers move into profit seeking capitalist ways
Why did Italian Renaissance decline?
-16th century Italy declined: French and Spanish invasion, atlantic trade routes hurt Mediterranean economy
What is humanism?
a focus on humanity on the center of endeavor
How was northern renaissance different?
- more religious
- mixed classical themes and medieval popular culture
List three northern Renaissance writers.
Shakespeare, Rabelais, Cervantes
What did Northern military rulers do?
-became patrons of the arts, tried to control the church, sponsored trading companies and colonial ventures, Interest in military conquest increased
How did styles change during the northern Renaissance?
- classical styles replace gothic
- Christian morality and piety emphasized
Describe the commercial economy by 1500.
- improved technology from Asia
- printnig helped expand religious and technological thinking
Describe the new family pattern by 1500.
European style family emerged- ordinary people married at a later age, nuclear family developed. The changed influenced husband wife relations and intensified links between families and individual property holdings
What was the date of the Protestant and Catholic reformation?
1517-1618
What did Martin Luther do?
- 95 theses
- faith alone needed to gain salvation
- challenged Catholic beliefs of pale authority, monasticism, priestly celibacy, and indulgences.
- Translated bible to German
How did Luther’s ideas impact Europe?
- Princes saw opportunity to secure power at the expense of the Catholic Holy Roman Empire
- Church lands and wealth seized in Lutheran states
- Peasant interpreted Luther’s action as a sanction for rebellion against landlords (luther denounced rebellion)
- Urban people thought that Luther’s views sanctioned money making and other secular pursuits
Describe Calvinism.
- Jean Calvin based in geneva
- Basic principle of predestination (the elect)
- He wanted participation of all believers in church affairs-influenced attitudes toward government
- Education and literacy stressed and reading the bible
- Huguenots, Presbyterian, Puritans, Congregationalists
How did England become Anglican?
- Henry 8 broke with pope over divorce
- Parliament passed act of Supremacy making monarchy head of the church of england
Catholic Reformation
- Council of Trent reaffirmed Catholic doctrine and reformed abuses
- Jesuits created
List important protestant states
England, Netherlands, Scandinavia, North German
When did the religious wars occur?
16th and 17th centuries
Describe religious fighting in france.
- fight for the throne
- Edict of Nantes 1598 required tolerance for the Huguenots
- Repealed by Luois 14 and Huguenots fled
Describe religious fighting in Netherlands.
- Phillip 2 of spain lost his Spanish land depleting resources in his Iberian Mission
- won independence in the treaty of westphalia
Describe the 30 years war.
Pitted German and Swedish protestants against Habsburg Holy Roman Empire and Spain. German power and prosperity did not recover for a century. Treaty of Westphalia allowed rulers to choose the religion of their country.
How did the religious wars affect Europe?
Acceptance of concepts of secular power and religious pluralism. Spain lost dominance, France gained power, and the Netherlands and England developed international trade.
What was the commercial revolution?
MECPS
- Manufacturing was stimulated
- East India companies developed
- Commercialization of Atlantic States and the New World gold and silver forced prices up and product demand surpassed availability
- Price revolution- benefitted those in agriculture and those who had debt
- Specialized agricultural regions emerged
How did the commercial revolution affect the people?
- Population and Urban Growth
- Prosperity shared by all classes but victims included wage earners vulnerable to economic inflations
- Witchcraft hysteria
What are the new social division in Europe by the 17th century?
wedges between the elite and the masses- elite pull out of popular culture
What social event occurred in Europe during the 17th century?
Rebellions demonstrated social tension as groups call for political voice or suppression of landlords and taxes. Rising fail and the wealthy become suspicious of the poor.
When did the scientific revolution occur?
17th century
Who was copernicus?
Copernicus disproved that the earth was the center of the universe
Name two astronomers who followed copernicus.
Kepler- laws of planetary motion
Galileo- his findings brought condemnation by the catholic church
What did Francis bacon contribute to the scientific revolution?
inductive reasoning and the values of empirical research
What did Isaac Newton contribute?
- framework of natural laws
- principles of motion, gravity, and scientific methodology
- Principia Mathematica
What did Harvey contribute to the scientific revolution?
circulatory system of animals
What was the impact of the scientific revolution?
JEW-NRH
- John Locke-Environmental philosophy- understanding
- Educated belief that people could control their
- Witchcraft hysteria declined
- New schools with gov aid
- Religious attitudes changed, Deism argued that god did not regulate natural laws environment through sense and reason
- Human progress- science had become central to western intellectual life
What was the political policy in the 17th century?
Absolute and parliamentary monarchies