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AP European History- Chapter 20: The Age of Napoleon
AP Euro Chapter 20- The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism
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coup d'etat
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Antimonarchist Directory put own supporters into legislative seats and won; exiled enemies
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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General in charge of Italian campaign; sent one sub to Paris to see success of coup; Jacobin; favored revolution
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Treaty of Campo Formio
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Concluded by Napoleon; took Austria out of the war and crowned Napoleon's campaign with success; emergence of larger German states in the west dependent on Napoleon
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Admiral Horatio Nelson
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Destroyed French fleet at Abukir in 1798
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Second Coalition
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Britain, Russia, Austria, and Ottomans vs. France
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Abbe Sieyes
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Director; proposed new constitution; author of What is the Third Estate, govt based on "confidence from below, power from above"
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What is the Third Estate? (1789)
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Abbe Sieyes; wanted an executive body independent on politics; required another coup d'etat with military support
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Constitution of Year VII
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Wanted:
Democratic principles with male pain as a screen
Complicated system of checks and balances (republican)
Council of State (Louis XIV) and the rule of one man: The First Consul, Bonaparte
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The First Consul
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Napoleon
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Consulate
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Ended revolution in France; abolished hereditary privilege and satisfied peasants; Bonaparte accepted and gave security to the people
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Battle at Marengo (1800)
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France wins over Austria
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Treaty of Luneville (1801)
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Took Austria out of war
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Treaty (Peace) of Amiens (1802)
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Britain made peace with Europe and restored peace within France; didn't last
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Bourbon duke of Enghien
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Duke accused of participation in royalist plot and killed even though innocent
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand- Perigord
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Napoleon's foreign minister; regarded execution of duke of Enghien as "worse than a crime- a blunder" and ended royalist plots
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Pope Pius VII
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Made concordant with Napoleon
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Concordant with the Roman Catholic Church
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Made the refractory clergy and revs resign; bishops named by state and were paid by state; church gave up claims on confiscated property
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The Organic Articles of 1802
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Established supremacy of state over church
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Civic Code of 1804 (Napoleonic Code)
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Safeguarded forms of property and secured French society against internal challenges; no privilege based on birth; employment of officials based on merit replaced officials that were bought
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Waterloo (1815)
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Napoleon conquered most of Europe until this battle; final defeat for Napoleon
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William Pitt the Younger
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Returned to office as prime minister in 1804 and began to construct Third Coalition
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Lord Nelson (Horatio)
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British admiral; destroyed French and Spanish fleets at Battle of Trafalgar off Spanish coast;
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Battle of Trafalgar
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Napoleon died and guaranteed British control of sea for rest of war
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Treaty of Pressburg
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Won major concessions from Austria; Australians withdrew from Italy and left Napoleon in control of everything north of Rome; king of Italy
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Confederation of the Rhine
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Western German princes withdrawl from the HRE; led Francis II to dissolve ancient political body and call self Emperor Francis I of Austria
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Berlin Decrees
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Forbid allies from importing British goods
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Tsar Alexander I
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Decided Prussia was ready to make peace; Napoleon met on a raft in Nieman River while two armies watched from the bank
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Treaty of Tilsit
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Confirmed France's gains; reduced Prussia to half its side; Prussia openly and Russia secretly became allies of Napoleon
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Lucien
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Napoleon's brother; was denied a kingdom because of Napoleon's disapproval of his wife
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Milan Decree of 1807
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Attempted to stop neutral nations from trading with Britain
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Fredrick William III
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Feared reform along with Junkers
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Baron vom Stein and Count von Hardenberg
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Reformers; neither intended to reduce autocratic power of Prussian monarch or end Junkers who formed bulwark of state and army corps
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Joseph
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Napoleon's brother; placed on Spanish throne; members of upper classes ready to collab but peasants rose in rebellion
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Sir Arthur Wellesley
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General of British; later duke of Wellington; supported Spanish insurgents; drew French strength from elsewhere in Europe
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Battle of Wagram
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German princes did not move and French army moved into Austria and won
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Peace of Schonbrunn
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Deprived Austria of much territory and 3.5 million subjects
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Marie Louise
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Daughter of emperor
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Josephine de Beauharnais
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Napoleon's wife; 46 and bore no children; divorced
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Grand Duchy of Warsaw
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Acted as a satelitte on Russian doorstep and enlargement after Battle of Wagram angered Alexander
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Bernadotte
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French marshal and future King Charles of Sweden and marriage to princess disturbed tsar
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"scorched-earth policy"
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Destroyed all food and supplies for the French
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Kutuzov
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Russian general; wished to avoid fight
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Borodino
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Bloodiest fight of Napoleonic era; cost 30,000 French men casualties and twice for the Russians
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Prince Klemens von Metternich
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Austrian foreign minister; wanted peace that would leave Napoleon on a shrunken throne than see Europe dominated by Russia
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Battle of the Nations
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Combined enemies at Leipzig defeated French
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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
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Key person in achieving agreement; British foreign secretary; brought signing of Treaty of Chaumont
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Treaty of Chaumont (1814)
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Provided for the restoration of Bourbons on French throne and the contraction of France to its frontiers of 1792
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Congress of Vienna
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Assembled in 1814 but did not end until 1815
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Four Great Powers
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Conducted important work of conference; only full session met to ratify arrangements made by the big 4
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Alexander I of Russia
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Wanted all of Poland; Prussia was willing to give it to him in return for all of Saxony; Austria unwilling
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Talleyrand
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Suggested weight of France added to Britain and Austria may bring Alexander to his senses; secret treaty news got out and tsar became ruler of smaller Poland
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Field Marshal von Blucher
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Prussian; helped Wellington; defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and Napoleon was abducted and sent into exile on Saint Helena
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Hundred Days
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Period of Napoleon's return; frightened great powers and made peace harsher for France; victors imposed a war
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Holy Alliance
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Proposed by Alexander; monarchs permitted to act in accordance with Christian principles; England abstained; symbol of extreme political reason
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Quadruple Alliance
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Among England, Austria, Prussia, and Russia; new purpose in European diplomacy; powers determined to prevent war
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Vienna Settlement
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Great powers framed international relations so the major powers would respect and not use military
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Romanticism
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Reaction to Enlightenment; writers saw imagination supplementing reason as perceiving the world; revival of Christianity and medieval times; human nature over society
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Sturm and Drang movement
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Dramatic German poetry
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Emile (1762)
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Rosseau; difference between children and adults; stages of human maturation and urged that children be raised with freedom; child's sentiments important
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Immanuel Kant
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Wrote two greatest philosophical works in 18th century: the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and The Critique of Practical Reason (1788); subjective character of human knowledge; human mind does not reflect the world around it but imposes a world of sensory experience
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Categorical Imperative
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All humans possess an innate sense of moral duty; inner command to act in every situation as others would
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Kantian Philosophy
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Decisive refutation of narrow rationality of Enlightenment; presence of a special power in humans that could be set beyond reason; mostly poets and artists possessed powers
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Romantic
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Appeared in English and French lit in 17th century; described unreal literature
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Thomas Warton
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Associated romantic literature with medieval romances
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Johann Gottfired
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Used terms romantic and Gothic interchangeably
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August Wilhelm von Schlegal
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Praised "romantic" literature of Dante and Shakespeare; romantic literature was to classic lit what living was to mechanical; Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature (1809-1811)
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Madame de Stael and Victor Hugo
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Caused Romantic movement in Germany and England before France
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Henri Beyle
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French writer; first to declare himself a romantic; praised Shakespeare and criticized Jean Racine
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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artist's imagination was God at work in the mind; imagination= "a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM."
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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Story about sailor cursed for killing an albatross; treats the subject as a crime against God
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William Wordsworth
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Coleridge's close friend; published Lyrical Ballads (1798) with him as a new poet
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"Ode on Imitations of Immorality" (1803)
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Wordsworth; Later poem; consoled Coleridge who was suffering from a personal crisis; maturation= child's loss of imagination
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The Prelude (1850)
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Wordsworth; book length poem; presented a long account on the growth of a poet's mind
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Lord Byron
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Rebel among poets and disliked; little sympathy for imagination by was viewed as embodiment of the new person of the French Revolution; rejected old traditions
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812)
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Lord Byron; Created a brooding, melancholy romantic hero
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Don Juan (1819)
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Lord Byron; Ribald humor; nature's cruelty along with its beauty and urban life
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Ludwig Tieck
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First German romantic novelist;
William Lovell: contrasts young life built on imagination with those who live on reason
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Schlegel Friedrich Schlegel
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Wrote Lucinde (1799) which attacked prejudices against women as being just lovers
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Greatest German writer of modern times; defied any classification
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The Sorrows of Young Wrther (1774)
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Goethe; Series of letters; hero falls in love with Lotte who is married and they part in the end; Werther lives his own life; about living on outside of polite society
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Faust Part 1 and 2 (1808 and 1832)
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Goethe; most popular works; a man makes a pact with the devil for more knowledge, falls in love with a woman, she dies and goes to heaven and he continues; he goes through adventures and dedicates his life to improve mankind
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Methodism
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Originated in the middle of the 18th century as a revolt against deism; background of Romanticism
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John Wesley
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Leader of Methodist Movement; organized Holy club and he and his brother Charles began to organize Methodist societies
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The Genius of Christianity (1802)
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Viscount Francois Rene de Chateaubriand; expressed sentiments; "bible of romanticism"; essence of religion is passion
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Friedrich Schleimacher
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Made a great impact on modern world;
Speeches on Religion to Its Cultured Despisers (1799): Response to rationalism and advocated religion as neither a dogma or system of ethics; just independence
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J.G. Fichte
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Important German philosopher and nationalist; identified individual ego with Absolute that underlies all existing things; world is creation of humankind and is special because of the people in it
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Johann Gottfried Herder
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Early leader; resented French culture in Germany;
Published essay "On the Knowing and Feelings of the Human Soul" which rejected mechanical explanation of nature; brothers Jakob and Wilhelm (Grimms)
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Most important romantic philosopher; believed ideas develop in evolution; The Phenomenology of Mind (1806) and Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1822-1831) discussed cultures contributing and clashing for new ideas
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Thesis
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Set of ideas and could hold sway
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Antithesis
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Challenged thesis
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Synthesis
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Merging of theses into a new thesis and process repeats
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Tales of the Crusades (1825)
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By Sir Walter Scott; ignored havoc inflicted by crusaders
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One Thousand and One Nights (1778) (Arabian Nights)
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Muslim world in positive fashion
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Edward FitzGerald
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Published popular translation of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a Persian poet
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Thomas Carlyle
Definition
British historian and social commentator
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On Heroes and Hero-Worship (1841)
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Carlyle; presented Muhammad as prophet hero; Muhammad sincere
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Description of Egypt
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Carlyle; concentrated on ancient Egypt; categories of thought
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the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and The Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
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Immanuel Kant; subjective character of human knowledge; human mind does not reflect the world around it but imposes a world of sensory experience
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Its Cultured Despisers (1799)
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Schleimacher; Response to rationalism and advocated religion as neither a dogma or system of ethics; just independence
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The Phenomenology of Mind (1806) and Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1822-1831)
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Hegel; discussed cultures contributing and clashing for new ideas
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