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IB History Midterm Review
All of the terms from reading guides 1-7.
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01/13/2008

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Pope Julius II
Definition
Pope during the Catholic Reformation
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Council of Trent
Definition
Began meeting in 1545 to shape modern Catholicism. Called by Julius II.
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The Vulgate
Definition
The official Catholic bible.
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Paul III
Definition
The first reformed pope after the Council of Trent.
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Ignatius Loyola
Definition
Jesuit guy from Spain
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Reforms made at the Council of Trent
Definition

Official Catholic doctrine stated

 

Pope would approve all decisions (kept Church united)

 

Ended some clergy abuses

 

 Set up seminaries

 

 

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Vasco da Gama
Definition
Portuguese explorer who brought Indian wares to Lisbon
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Christopher Columbus
Definition
Spanish explorer who discovered the Americas
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conquistadores
Definition
Spanish conquerors in Latin America
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Magellan
Definition
His ships were the first to round the world, but he died on the way.
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Cortes
Definition
Conquered the Inca in Peru
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Pizzaro
Definition
Conquered the Aztecs in Mexico
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Factors that led to the opening of the atlantic
Definition

Need for trade, new shipbuilding technologies, desire to convert natives, nationalism and competition.

 

(Gold, God, Glory) 

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Mestizos
Definition
In the New World, people with indigenous and European heritage.
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encomienda
Definition
In this system in the New World, indigenous people were required to work for a landowners a certain number of days of the week, and had their own parcels of land to work for themselves the other days.
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Creoles
Definition
European-blooded people who were born and lived in the Americas.
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Potosi
Definition
Silver was discovered there
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Philip II
Definition
Spanish king during Spain's Golden Age, when commerce was awesome and exploration and conquering were going well. The Philippines are named after him.
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Escorial
Definition
Monastery and Spanish royal palace, built by Philip II as a "Perpetual home for the Catholic Crown of Spain".
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Duke of Alva
Definition
Spanish general and governor of the Spanish Netherlands, rather harsh and cruel
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St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Definition
Catholic mob violence against Huguenots
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Joyeuse Entree
Definition
The constitution of the Netherlands
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William the Silent
Definition
Main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that ended in their independence in 1648.
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Mary Stuart
Definition
Queen of Scotland and Queen Consort of France, executed in England for being Catholic. (Elizabeth kept her imprisoned.)
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armada catolica
Definition

Philip II's epically failing armada of heavy slow-moving ships.

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old regime (France)
Definition
The aristocratic social and political system in France prior to the French Revolution.
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Louis XVI
Definition

King of France before the French Revolution, and then King of the French during the moderate phase of the revolution.

 

He was beloved at first, but grew to be hated as a symbol of the Old Regime. 

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bourgeois
Definition
The new middle class, members of the Third Estate who had money, but not political rights.
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Third Estate
Definition
Peasants and middle class- everyone except clergy and nobles.
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metayers
Definition
Sharecroppers in France
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banalites
Definition
Vestigial dues owed by French peasants to landowners.
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Jacques Necker
Definition

Financial minister to Louis XVI.

 

He advised the calling of the Estates General, which caused the National Assembly. By the court, he was regarded as the cause of the French Revolution. 

 

He was dismissed because of this, and his dismissal set of the storming of the Bastille. 

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parlements
Definition
French judicial bodies.
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Tennis Court Oath
Definition

Oath taken by all but 1 member of the 3rd Estate and some of the 1st Estate to make a Constitution for France.

 

They became the Constituent Assembly and then the National Assembly. 

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National Assembly
Definition
The members of the 3rd and 1st Estates who swore to assemble as a government body.
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Abbe Sieyes
Definition

Wrote What Is the Third Estate?

 

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Great Fear
Definition
1789 In France, peasants thought mauraders were out to get them and freaked out.
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Bastille
Definition

In response to the dismissal of Necker, an angry crowd of people stormed the Bastille, a big prison.

 

This is considered the beginning of the French Revolution. 

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July 14, 1789
Definition
Bastille Day
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Marquis de Lafayette
Definition

A wealthy French citizen who supported the American Revolution.

 

Moderate, denounced the Jacobins.

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Declaration of 1789 (France)

 

Definition
The first step towards a French Constitution- Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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Olympe de Gouges
Definition
A female playwright and feminist. Demanded the same rights for French women that the men wanted for themselves.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Definition
British female philosopher/feminist during the Age of Enlightenment. Advocated education for women.
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Jacobins
Definition
Holders of extreme revolutionary ideas in France. Members of the Jacobin Club.
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Adam Smith
Definition

British political economist during the Enlightenment. Wrote The Wealth of Nations.

 

Advocated free trade, capitalism, libertarianism. 

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Constituent Assembly
Definition
French people who assembled to write a Constitution.
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Flight to Varennes
Definition

King Louis and his family tried to escape to initiate a counter-revolution, but failed to get past Varennes.

 

This marked the beginning of more pronounced hostility towards the monarchy. 

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assignats (France)
Definition
New banknotes issued by the National Assembly that caused crazy inflation and screwed everything up.
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jaqueries
Definition
French nickname for peasant rebellions. (during the Middle Ages)
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Effects of the Black Death
Definition

Disrupted family life

 

Labor was scarce, so wages increased, but work was hard to find also because employers were dead- caused a bunch of worker discontent

 

 

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Wat Tyler Rebellion
Definition
Large scale uprising in England in 1381. Asked why some should be rich and others poor.
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Hundred Years' War
Definition
War between England and France beginning in 1337. Took place in France.
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Joan of Arc
Definition
French military heroine, burned in 1431 for heresy.
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Unam Sanctam
Definition

Boniface VIII's declaration that the Roman church was the only salvation. Got Boniface kicked out and replaced with someone more subservient.

 

(pre-reformation) 

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Babylonian Captivity
Definition

Church now regarded as a tool of France, papacy's prestige dimmed.

 

(pre-reformation) 

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Great Schism
Definition
The election of two popes in 1378. Neither would resign, and both continued ruling for 40 years- this caused religious insecurity.
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The Conciliar Movement
Definition

Attempt to assemble a general church council. Largely unsuccessful, but ended the Schism. Dissolved in 1449

 

(took place after the Great Schism, but before the Reformation) 

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English Statute of Laborers
Definition
Because of black-death-related economic problems, nobles used this to try to lock prices and wages. It pissed off the peasants.
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Sforza family
Definition
Milan dukes
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de Medici family
Definition
Florence dukes
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Humanism
Definition
The literary movement of the Renaissance, so called because of the rising interest in humane letters.
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The father of humanism during the Renaissance
Definition
Petrarch
Term
Wrote "Book of the Courtier"
Definition
Castiglione
Term
Condottieri
Definition
Professional fighting-men hired by city-states to carry out warfare.
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Wrote The Prince
Definition
Machavelli
Term
Martin Luther's big angry document
Definition
95 Theses
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League of Schmalkald
Definition
Group of Lutheran princes and free cities against the German emperor during the reformation.
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Peace of Augsburg
Definition

1555

 

Ended the war between the German emperor and the Schmalkald League. A victory for Protestantism, but a step towards Germany's disintegration. 

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Johann Tetzel
Definition
Guy who sold indulgences
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Institutes of the Christian Religion
Definition
Document published by John Calvin that stated his ideas about religion
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Gustavus Adolphus
Definition
Swedish king, Protestant champion.
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Peace of Westphalia
Definition

1648

 

Renewed Peace of Augsburg, added Calvinism as an acceptable religion

 

Holy Roman Empire nerfed

 

End of reformation 

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Oliver Cromwell
Definition
A douchebag.
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Absolutism
Definition
The belief that a monarch should have complete power, whether supported by practical control issues or divine right.
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Colbert
Definition
Louis XIV's financial minister guy.
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Edict of Nantes
Definition
Allowed freedom of religion in France. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1685.
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Peace of Utrecht
Definition
Ended the War of Spanish Succession, stated that France and Spain could never be ruled by the same dude.
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