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Test 4 (1450-1700) Gunpowder Empires, Renaissance, Reformation Flashcards

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Silk Road

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-Network of trade routes from 130 BC to 1453 (Han Dynasty to Ottomans)
-Cities like Baghdad and Samarkand located along it
-Spread key innovations like gunpowder, compasses, paper, etc

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Caravanserais

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-Large inns along the silk road to house travelling merchants

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Items traded on Silk Road

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From East: Silk, Jade, precious stones, porcelain, tea, spices

From West: Horses, glassware, textiles, manufactured goods

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Evolution of Silk Road Importance

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-Height in the Tang Dynasty (700s) during the Chinese Golden Age
-Decreased when ocean trade became prominent in the late Song period
-Revived during the Pax Mongolica (1200s-1300s)
-By Ottoman rule and Age of Exploration, only used for local trade (other routes became more efficient)

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Indian Ocean Trading Network

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-Established before the classical period (500 bc)
-Height in 1000-12000 AD and a resurgence in 1400s
-Declined with he rise of Europe in the Age of Imperialism and steamship invention (1800s)

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Key players on the IOTN

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Africa:
-Raw materials (ivory, gold, animal skins)
-City-states (Kilwa, Sofala, Mombasa)
-Swahili (Bantu+Arabic)

Muslim traders:
-Horses, carpets, swords
-Formed diasporic communities (Gujarat)
-Arab dhow
-Astrolabe

Southeast Asia:
-Spices
-Malacca, Srivijiya, etc

India:
-Center of the IOTN
-Calicut (pepper) and Bombay ports
-Provided monsoon winds

China:
-Chinese junk ship
-Zheng He expeditions

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Portugal and the IOTN

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-In the 1500s, the Portuguese, with their gunpowder weapons, tried to monopolize it
-They failed but still taxed ships and made people buy a cartaz (trade license)

-Them and other European influence led to the decline of this trade network

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Gunpowder Empires

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Ottomans (1299-1922)
Safavids (1501-1736)
Mughals (1526-1858)

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Origins of Ottoman Empire

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-Mongols/Timur had already destroyed Abbasid Dynasty (Baghdad) and defeated the Seljuk Turks
-Mongols began the gunpowder trend
-Anatolia was left weak and ready for conquering

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Osman I

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-Most successful ghazi prince (emir)
-Ghazis were “warriors for Islam”
-Built a small state in Anatolia between 1300 and 1326
-West called him Othman and his followers Ottomans

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What accounted for the Ottomans’ military success?

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Gunpowder:
-Foot soldiers with muskets
-Bronze cannons to break through strong walls

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Mehmet II (Mehmet the Conqueror)

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-Attacked Constantinople when he was 21
-Breached the walls (first ever to do so)
-Turned the Hagia Sophia into the biggest mosque in the world
-Constantinople was now Istanbul and open to people of all religions and backgrounds
-Center of trade routes between east and west
-Legitimized Ottoman rule by claiming he was the new Roman Caesar (taking over the Byzantine empire)

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Selim the Grim

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-Came to power by overthrowing his father, murdering his brothers, executing his nephews, and killing all but one of his sons
-Defeated the Safavids of Persia at Chaldiram
-Captured Jerusalem, Mecca, and Medina (holiest Islamic cities)
-Conquered Cairo (ending Egyptian Mamluk Dynasty and taking the intellectual Islamic center)
-Secured the East so Suleiman could take the West

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Suleiman I (Suleiman the Lawgiver)

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-Selim’s son
-Ottoman empire reached its peak
-Came to power in 1520, ruled for 46 years

-Conquered Belgrade, Rhodes, Tripoli, North African coastline to Morocco, and Hungary
-Failed his Siege of Vienna so pulled back from central Europe

-Simplified the tax system and reduced the government bureaucracy which bettered citizens’ daily lives
-Interested in poetry, history, geography, math and architecture

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Ottoman Harem

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-Where the sultan and wives lived
-Where government ran
-Women often involved and tried to promote their sons

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Roxelana

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-Influential wife of Suleiman
-Got her son to be next Sultan

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Janissaries

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-Elite force of 30,000 men drawn from the people of conquered Christian territories (Ukraine and Russia mostly) under the devshirme system
-Could rise to high government posts
-Turned into a social class

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Devshirme system

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-Sultan’s army taking boys from their families, educating them, converting them to Islam, training them as soldiers
-Sometimes mother would bribe officials to take their sons so they could have a good future in the janissary corps

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Millets

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-Non-Muslim religious communities (Christians, Jews, etc)
-Given freedom to keep their own laws and practices because of the Quran’s teachings
-Head of each millet reported to the sultan and his staff
-Leads to Eastern European tension (groups never had to interact and learn to get along)

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Mosque of Suleiman

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-Designed by architect Sinan
-Masterpiece with domes and half domes
-The huge complex included schools, a college, library, bath, and hospital
-Shows cultural flourishing under Suleiman

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Tax farming

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-Ottoman decentralized tax system
-People bid on taxation rights
-Saved the empire money but got currupt

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Tanzimat Reforms

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-Ottoman attempt to reform in the 1830-70s
-Tried to modernize military, education, laws, government, etc
-Tried to be more secular
-Failed

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Ottoman Decline

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-Secession issues (incompetent rulers chosen)
-Military failure at Lepanto against Spain and Italy
-Nationalism (countries like Egypt, Greece, Serbia broke off )
-Empire was finally dissolved with the creation of Turkey after WWI

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Isma’il I (1501-1524)

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-Seized most of present day Iran starting in 1499 when he was only 12
-Took the ancient Persian title Shah (king) to start the Safavid Empire
-Made shi’a Islam the state religion and became a religious tyrant
-Lost to Ottomans at the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514
-Set the border between empires, current border between Iran and Iraq

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Tahmasp (1524-1576)

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-Son of Isma’il
-Learned from the defeat at Chaldiran
-Used artillery (cannons) to expand to the Caucasuses (northeast of Turkey)
-Brought Christians under Safavid rule

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Shah Abbas (1587-1629)

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-Abbas the great
-Similar slave army to janissaries
-Created a Safavid culture and golden age
-Tolerant
-Opened empire up to foreign influence in art
-Hired foreigners for gov jobs
-Made same mistake as Suleyman (left empire to incompetent grandson)

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Safavid foreign influence

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-Capital Esfahan
-Chinese tiles and Armenian carpets
-Chinese art
-Carpet industry (showed European influence in designs eventually)

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Mughals

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-Mainly of Turkic origin from Central Asia, some Mongol blood
-Name comes from Mongols
-Invaded India, starting with the north
-Sunni Muslims

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Pre-Mughal India history

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-Fighting between Hindus and Muslims
-Mahmud of Ghazni invades around 1000 AD with his Turkish armies, destroyed Hindu monuments, etc
-Delhi Sultanate (1200s-1500s), loose empire ruled by Turkish warlords
-Delhi destroyed by Timur in 1398 but eventually rebuilt

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Rajputs

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-“sons of kings”
-Ruled Muslim kingdoms in northwest India

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Babur (1526-1530)

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-Descended from Chinggis Khan and Timur
-Inherited a small kingdom in Uzbekistan/Tajikistan, but his elders took it away
-Built up an army and swept into India, laying groundwork for Mughal Empire
-Strong general and defeated much bigger armies led by Dehli sultans and Rajputs

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Akbar (1556-1605)

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-Firm defender of religious freedom, married Hindu, Christian, and Muslim women
-Abolished the jizya (tax on non-Muslims)
-Governed through a diverse bureaucracy of foreigners
-Graduated income tax
-Redistributed bureaucrats’ land after death
-Invaded Deccan plateau and allied with Rajputs
-Revived Hindu literature (Tulsi Das)
-Architecture with Hindu influence (Fatepur Sikri)

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Languages in Mughal Empire

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-Persian was the official language of the court and high culture
-Common people spoke Hindi (mix of Persian and a local language)
-Urdu language came out of the diverse Mughal armies (mix of Arabic, Perisan, and Hindi)

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Jahangir and Nur Jahan (1605-1627)

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-Jahangir was Akbar’s son
-Weak ruler, left state affairs to his wife Nur Jahan
-Made her father prime minister
-Rejected religious tolerance, only promoted Islam
-Ousted Jahangir’s son Khusrau
-He went to the Sikhs (blend of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sufism)
-Sikh leader Guru Arjun tortured to death and Sikhs become militant brotherhood because of it

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Shah Jahan (1628-1658)

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-Very cultured like his grandfather Akbar
-Built the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal (cultural blending, Pietra Dura)
-People suffered under his rule due to famine and high taxes to fund his extravagance
-Third son Aurangzeb put him in prison to secure the throne

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Aurangzeb (1658-1707)

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-Master of military strategy and built the empire to its biggest size
-Power of the empire weakened however due to his oppression of the people
-Enforced Islamic laws like no drinking or gambling
-Appointed censors to make sure people prayed
-Reinstated jizya tax on non-Muslims, dismissed Hindus from top gov jobs, destroyed Hindu monuments

-Hindu Rajputs rebelled
-Marathas (militant Hindus) founded their own state
-Sikhs started their own state, Punjab

-Raised taxes on Hindu merchants to pay for these wars, led to even more rebellion

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Mughal Decline

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-Aurangzeb drained the empire’s resources and lost the people’s loyalty
-Millions died of famine while nobles lived in luxury
-Central state weakened (emperor became a figurehead while local Rajputs gained power)

-Europeans started to take hold of India
-Portuguese, Dutch, French and English (PDFE)
-Shah Jahan let English build a trading post at Madras, Aurangzeb handed them the port of Bombay

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The Renaissance

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1300-1600
-The rebirth of art and learning
-Began in northern Italy but took longer to spread to northern Europe because France and England were in the Hundred Years’ War (1337 to 1453)
-It started in Italy due to its cities (Crusades), wealthy merchants, bubonic plague (church decline), and classical heritage

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Medici

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-Powerful family with a fortune from trade and banking
-Cosimo de’ Medici was essentially a dictator of Florence for 30 years (1434-1464)
-Didn’t hold his own office but instead influenced rulers in exchange for loaning them money
-His grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent did the same thing starting in 1469

-Sponsored the arts by collecting manuscripts and opening their library to the public

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Italy’s classical heritage

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-Connections to Ancient Greece and Rome
-Scholars started studying the Latin manuscripts preserved in monasteries in 1300
-Reconquista
-When Constantinople fell to the Ottomans (1453), Byzantine scholars fled to Rome and brought Greek manuscripts with them

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Humanism

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-Focused on human potential and achievement
-Worldly values (don’t worry about heaven, live your life)
-Luxuries allowed, don’t need to live a simple, pious life
-Influenced art+architecture and popularized the study of classical subjects (history, literature, philosophy)

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Renaissance art

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-Continued the medieval trend of painting religious subjects but used more of a classical realistic style
-They also started painting prominent citizens
-The technique of perspective was also rediscovered

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

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-Italian painter, sculpture, inventor, and scientist (true renaissance man)
-Tried to understand things, sketches in notebooks
-Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

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Michelangelo (1475-1564)

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-Italian
-Portrayals of the human body, showing force and heroic grandeur
-Sistine Chapel’s paintings, sculpted David and Pieta

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Raphael (1483-1520)

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-Learned from studying the works of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
-Advanced realism
-Painted Madonna and the Child a lot
-Filled Pope Julius II’s library with frescoes
-One of them, “School of Athens” shows Classical and Renaissance figures together

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Pope Julius II

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-Huge patron of the arts
-Commissioned Raphael to paint his library

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Francesco Petrarch

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“Father of Humanism”
-Collected classical manuscripts
-Poet (Laura sonnets)

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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-Wrote a book called “The Prince”
-Political guidebook for gaining power and keeping it
-Said most people are selfish and corrupt, so a prince must be willing to trick his enemies and people for the greater good
-Not concerned with what was morally right, just what was politically effective
-“The ends justify the means”

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Northern Renaissance

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-Northern humanists were more interested in the religious ideas than secular themes in Italy
-Happened by artists studying in Italy and then returning as well as artists fleeing Italy (war)

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Albrecht Durer

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-German artist that traveled to Italy to study art
-Self portrait of himself as a Renaissance man

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Jan van Eyck (late 1300s-1441)

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-First great Flemish Renaissance painter
-Oil paint techniques
-Arnolfini Marriage Portrait

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Thomas More (1478-1535)

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-Christian humanist (human advances should still serve God)
-From England
-Wrote in Latin
-Wrote the book “Utopia” in 1516 which critiqued society

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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-“Greatest playwright of all time”
-Commanded the English language, showed understanding of human beings
-Humanism because commented on human nature and had classical themes/influences

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History of printing

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-Began in China with block printing
-China started moveable type printing (not practical because alphabet is so big)
-Block printing arrives in Europe in the 1200s
-Johann Gutenburg reinvents movable type (1440) and then invents the printing press (converted wine press) to print the Gutenburg Bible (1455)

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Spread of printing/books

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-Books became cheap enough for many to buy them
-Literacy increased, very advanced society
-Vernacular use increased in writing (more than just Latin scholars could read now)
-Bible printed in vernacular, more people made their own interpretations, demands for religious reforms

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Causes of Reformation

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-Renaissance emphasis on the individual and secular ideas challenged church authority
-Printing press spread secular themes
-Rulers resented pope’s attempts to control them
-Merchants hated paying church taxes to Rome
-Church corruption (not educated, didn’t follow vows, extravagant lives)

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The Reformation

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-Started by Martin Luther
-Movement for religious reform
-LEd to the founding of Christian churches who didn’t accept the pope’s authority

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Martin Luther

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-Became a monk in 1505
-Taught scripture at Wittenburg University in Saxony (Germany)
-Started the Reformation

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The 95 Theses

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-Published by Martin Luther
-Attacked “pardon-merchants” like Johann Tetzel who sold indulgences
-Posted on the castle church door in Wittenburg to foster debate with scholars
-Somebody took them to a printer and they spread across Germany

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What ideas did Luther base his call for reform on?

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-Salvation is only won by faith (not faith and good works)
-Church teachings based on Bible (pope and church traditions are false authorities)
-All people with faith are equal, priests not necessary to “interpret God”

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Conflict due to Reformation

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-German peasant revolt
-Protestant vs. Catholic prince war
-Thirty Years’ War

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Peace of Augsburg (1535)

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-End to the fighting between Catholic and Protestant German priests
-Managed by Charles V
-Each state’s ruler could choose their state’s religion

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Henry VIII

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-Needed a male heir so he wanted a divorce
-Pope didn’t allow it
-Changed the country to Protestantism

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Act of Supremacy

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-Passed by the Reformation Parliament
-Made the English king leader of England’s church (no longer the pope)

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How did Henry VIII gain power/wealth after becoming supreme head of England’s church?

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-Closing all the monasteries
-Seized their money and land (20% of all English land)

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Henry VIII’s legitimate kids

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Ruled after his death in 1547

Edward VI
-Mother was Jane Seymor (3rd wife)
-King at nine years old, lasted six years
-Protestants gained power

Mary I
-“Bloody Mary”
-Mother was Catherine of Aragon
-Returned English Church to pope’s rule
-Had Protestants killed

Elizabeth I
-Mother was Anne Boleyn
-Returned Protestantism

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Elizabeth I

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-Had the church return to Henry VIII’s setup
-Became head of the Anglican church
-Patron of the arts
-Elizabethan age (golden age)

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Spanish Armada

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-Led by Philip II of Spain because he was Catholic
-130 ships, 8,000 sailors, 19,000 soldiers
-England defeated them under Elizabeth I (with the help of bad weather)

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John Calvin

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-Calvinism (type of Protestantism)
-Predestination
-Rules about morality
-Puritans (England), Pilgrims (new world)

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Catholic Reformation

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“Counter-Reformation”
-Council of Trent
-Reforms (no indulgences, educated priests, stricter rules, missionary efforts)
-Slowed Protestant spread

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Society of Jesus

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-Jesuits
-Ignatius of Loyola
-Goal was to spread Catholicism around the world
-Part of the Catholic Reformation

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