Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Western Civ II 1500-Present
Flashcards for Midterm
161
History
Undergraduate 2
07/18/2012

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Magellan
Definition
1st person to circumnavigate the globe. Went around south america and ended back up in spain.
Term
New Spain
Definition
Discovered new spain. Which was comprised mostly of north america.
Term
Atlantic slave trade
Definition
Was created due to the need for labor on plantations. It created the Triangluar trade (Europe, Africa, America). Many people traded, The Protuguese, Dutch, French, England.
Term
Middle Passage
Definition
It was the passage between Africa and America. 1/10 died.
Term
Dutch East Indies
Definition
Was mainly based in indonesia--it was the spice trade--The dutch east india company-- it was run by the dutch government--Had a trading center in Jakarta.
Term
commercial revolution
Definition
Economic mindset was changing. This development created a new desire for trade, and trade expanded in the second half of the Middle Ages. European nations, through voyages of discovery, were looking for new trade routes in the 15th and 16th centuries, which allowed the European powers to build vast, new international trade networks. Nations also sought new sources of wealth. To deal with this new-found wealth, new economic theories and practices were created. Because of competing national interest, nations had the desire for increased world power through their colonial empires. The Commercial Revolution is marked by an increase in general commerce, and in the growth of financial services such as banking, insurance, and investing. Made possible by the increase in money supply, business institutions and laws--help unify nation-states.
Term
mercantilism
Definition
England- It was government directed, favored a balance of trade, precious metals, and the colonies were a source of wealth.
Term
agricultural revolution
Definition
Began planting crops for profit. There were techniques to increase production. Four-field system(grow certain crops that will produce nitrogen), breeding and fattening, convertible husbandry, meadow floating, and enclosure( fencing off lands- created resistance and anger)
Term
the Columbian Exchange
Definition
Greater circulation of food- increase variety and circulation- growth of world population- healthier due to better food.
Term
consumer culture
Definition
new consumables (chocolate, coffee, tea, tobacco, sugar), paraphenelia, clothing and acessories (brighter colors), more choices provided a sense of freedom, pleasure and leisure, and a growth of democracy.
Term
public sphere
Definition
New print culture allowed for exchange of political ideas. Political discourse over consumables, growing middle class. (england, distinctive culture, influence on america) Resenting merchantilism.
Term
Enlightenment
Definition
Mid 1600s-1700s. Roots in renaissance. Permant change in mentality. Scientific revolution. Main ideas: reason, sceince and natural law, deism( belief in God as creator that left earth alone), rejection of traditional religion and passions, Freedom and equality, natural rights, positive view of human nature, democratic tendencies, positive view of human nature, and progress.
Term
Voltaire
Definition
Was a diest, and wanted reform. Wrote Candide--was widely banned because it contained religious blasphemy, political sedition and intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of naïveté.
Term
Montesquieu
Definition
Aristocract--social reformer. Spoke of the dangers of despotism, speration of church and state, Wrote spirit of the laws (talked of 3 brances of checks and balance seperation of powers) was a diest.
Term
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Definition
Communism, radicalism, wrote the Social Contract which talks against natural law. It should be the whole society together so no one is greedy. He believes in the Gerneral will- that everyone should agree.
Term
Scottish Enlightenment
Definition
Created urban intelletual centers- Presbyterian contributions, history, moral, philosophy, economics, scottish culture- big influnce in the Arts. Ideas: Imporvement of society, natural innate and moral sense, influnce on america
Term
Adam Smith
Definition
Came up with the law of supply and demand and lassiez-faire (n economic environment in which transactions between private parties are free from tariffs, government subsidies, and enforced monopolies, with only enough government regulations sufficient to protect property rights against theft and aggression.)
Term
David Hume
Definition
skeptic- moralirty based on pleaure and pain.
Term
Francis Hutcheson
Definition
Challenged Hume- virtue causes pleasure because it conforms to our natural moral sense.
Term
John and Charles Wesley
Definition
Created methodism- They were both ordianed minister who attended oxford and wrote hymns- they belived in perfectionism through grace.
Term
Romanticism
Definition
against enlightenment- the heart reveals human truth.
Term
Johann Sebastian Bach
Definition
Bach wrote much music, which was revered for its intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty. Many of his works are still known today, such as theBrandenburg Concertos, the Mass in B minor, the Well-Tempered Clavier, and his cantatas, chorales, partitas, passions, and organ works. Mathmatical genius.
Term
Robert Burns
Definition
Poet. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a "light" Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland.
Term
Louis XVI
Definition
Was the grandson of Louis XIV and was married to Marie Antionette. He didn’t want to be king. Supported the American in their revoltions and was executed in 1793 with marie antionette not too far after.
Term
Estates-General
Definition
There were three estates or orders- merge into one gerneral national assembly.
Term
Tennis Court Oath
Definition
The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. The came to call themselves the national assembly.
Term
Bastille
Definition
The storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. While the prison only contained seven inmates at the time of its storming, its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
Term
sans-culottes
Definition
Artisans- people with some skill- close to the bottom
Term
Decrees of August 4
Definition
Dismantled the old regime. Feudlaism was abolished. Declaration of the rights of man--freedom of expression and religion, rights.
Term
Edmund Burke
Definition
Father of consevatism- reflections on the french revoltion- Conservatism, organic society,
Term
Jacobins
Definition
a faction started that ended at the death of robespierre. They were in the Estate generals.
Term
Girondins
Definition
Less radical group of the Jacobins
Term
Montagnards
Definition
More radical group of the jacobin. Geroge Danton was a lawyer who was well spoken in this group.
Term
Maximilien Robespierre
Definition
The "incorruptible", devoted himself to the revolution, supreme beings, believed in Rousseau and the general will.
Term
La Marseillaise
Definition
The french national anthem.
Term
guillotine
Definition
used to cut off peoples heads during the revolution.
Term
levée en masse
Definition
raise the masses- expansion of war- it created total war where everyone got involved.
Term
the Terror
Definition
More people were sent to the guillotine during this period then ever (spet. 1793-july 1794). This is the period when robespierre died.
Term
Thermidorean Reaction
Definition
Revolution broke out in July, They created the directory which was a five man council of the girondins.
Term
Napoleon Bonaparte
Definition
Was a leader in the French army--saw that this could allow him toadvance--he was a little man with a big military carrer. He won his recognition in the Egyptian campaigns and capture the rosetta stone( help translate the egyptian hieropglyphics) Became first counsul for life and was the emperor of france
Term
Battle of Trafalgar
Definition
a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). The british won.
Term
Waterloo
Definition
Was the final defeat of Napoleon- total defeat. Was banish to St. Helena
Term
Haitian Revolution
Definition
Heard of enlightnemnet ideas and didn’t want to be slaves anymore--they didn’t want to work on the sugar plantations.
Term
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture
Definition
Was a slave who obatined his freedom and became a brigadeer general in the french military. He ened up getting freedom for the people on the island and in 1801 a constitution and 1802 a treaty. He was caputred and lived in isolation until he died.
Term
industrial revolution
Definition
Britian was the cradle of the industrial rev. it had natural resources, commerce (international market, naval power, banking, and capital), political support, and labor.
Term
cottage industry
Definition
The created the cottage industry putting out system- in which entrepenuers would have the famers in winter do light manufacturing.
Term
Thomas Newcomen
Definition
Created the Newcomen's engine propelled by steam to get coal out of mines. 1709
Term
James Watt
Definition
Created a new and imporved version of the steam engine in 1775
Term
John Kay
Definition
Created the flying shuttle for weaving cotton. It required only one person and not two.
Term
James Hargreave
Definition
Created the Spinning jenny which allowed more cotton to be spun at once. Some even had 20 spinners.
Term
Richard Arkwright
Definition
Created the Arkwright water frame which used water as the driving force.
Term
mule spinning
Definition
Worked with spinning jenny and water frame.
Term
cotton gin
Definition
Created by Eli Whitney to get the seeds out of cotton.
Term
Josiah Wedgwood
Definition
Created cream colored cereamic. He also created queens ware and was inspired by pompeii.
Term
transportation revolution
Definition
created canals and railroads ("iron horse"). The first line was from manchester to liverpool. This also caused changed in thinking aboout innovation and worried about speed and the decline of men.
Term
Luddites
Definition
People who didn’t like the idea of the new technology being created and would go around and break the machines.
Term
the “moral economy”
Definition
Where people allowed to sell things at any price they liked or was there such a thing as a just price.
Term
ideology
Definition
Various ideas people developed trying to make sense of new things.
Term
(classical) liberalism
Definition
political ideology that advocates limited government, constitutionalism, rule of law, due process, individual liberties including freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets.
Term
Thomas Malthus
Definition
Political economc thinker, was concerned with overpopulation. More conservative. Though charity was a problem. Under liberalism.
Term
Jeremy Bentham
Definition
Liberalism--opposed slavery and social injustice--belived in utilitarianism (whatever works for the greatest number of people)
Term
John Stuart Mill
Definition
Atheist--thought like modern democrats-- fought for womens rights and wrote on liberty talking about utilitarian societies and unlimited personal property.
Term
conservatism
Definition
a political and social philosophy that promotes retaining traditional institutions and supports, at most, minimal and gradual change in society. The main thinker was Edmund Burke.
Term
utopian socialism
Definition
It should be possible to create an ideal society on Earth
Term
Robert Owen
Definition
Created a the New lenark Mill--established schools, factory stores, limited child labor.
Term
Henri de Saint-Simon
Definition
never wrote out his thinkings--was the person who coined the word industrialism.
Term
Charles Fourier
Definition
created phlanxes (autonomous community of workers)--a society based on everyones needs
Term
Karl Marx
Definition
Created scientifi socialism (because he thought that it was obserable and could be demonstrated scientifically). Marx was a young thinker from russia who believed in utopian societies.
Term
Friedrich Engels
Definition
Worked along side of Marx--believed that there needed to be a new society that caused less suffering.
Term
dialectical materialism
Definition
originally created by Hegel- it was a thesis (particular idea) an antithesis (a competing idea) and a sythesis of the two ideas creating progress. Marx believed that there were two class the "haves" or burgeosie and the "have nots" the proletariat-- he believed that the proletariat would rise and take control creating a dictatorship.
Term
Communism
Definition
Believed that this dialectical materialism would lead to a bloody revolution and that society should be classless and everyone should be equal with no religion.
Term
The Communist Manifesto
Definition
Written by Marx and engels--book contains Marx and Engels' Marxist theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles".[4] It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism.
Term
Romanticism
Definition
It went back to the 18th century and had mainly to do with the arts--it is counter-enlightenment--it wanted to get back at the beauty and emotion of life. There were many tensions between the artists--and they were portrayed as tortured individuals.
Term
William Blake
Definition
Poet who wrote "The Tiger" he was a mystic and a christian missionary.
Term
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Definition
Was a german novelist who wrote "The sorrows of Young Werther" about a love that fails and the main character commits suicide.
Term
Eugène Delacroix
Definition
French painter who had a new emphasis on freedom--his paintings were mostly about freedom.
Term
domestic ideology
Definition
This was about the role of women and the heart and what women should do and where they should be--which was in the home
Term
“separate spheres”
Definition
Men should be working while women were at home being the homemaker and rearing the children to be proper adults
Term
“influence”
Definition
women had a loving influnce and would touch a person from within and didn’t have to use force.
Term
benevolence
Definition
women wanted to do good and right the wrong of people and society.
Term
humanitarianism
Definition
an ethic of kindness, benevolence and sympathy extended universally and impartially to all human beings.
Term
Renaissance
Definition
*French term for "rebirth."
*Going on at the same time of the Reformations. (14th-17th Century)
*Getting to the classic and becoming more secular.
*A Bridge between middle ages and modern ages.
* More skeptical of athourity.
* Set the stage for the protestant reformation.
Term
Protestant Reformation
Definition
*Martin Luther, unable to reform catholic church, begin reform movement.
*Martin Luther/ John Calvin = major leaders.
* Wanted to get back to the 1st chruch (pre-church)
* Stronger in the north versus the south.
Term
"Protestant"
Definition
Where protestantism come from. It means to Protest. They were protesting the Catholic Church and the inssues which included: pluralism, simony, and moral character of clergy, papact, and sales of indulgences
Term
Indulgences
Definition
Indulgences are supposed to shorten your time in purgatory.
They were offered for good works or going to Holy places during Holy Years.
However, not the Catholic Churches were selling them to get money.
Term
Purgatory
Definition
A place of cleansing your venial sin before you go to heaven.
Term
Johann Tetzel
Definition
Was a monk who went walking around selling indulgences to raise money for St. Peter's Basilica.
Term
Martin Luther
Definition
Came from a hardworking family, wanted to be a lawyer, but after a near death experience, he joined a Agustinian Monestary. He had a personal and theological dilemma with the sales of indulgences. He believed in Faith and Scripture alone. Founder of Lutheranism. Excommunicated by Pope Leo the X for not renoucning his ideas.
Term
"95 Thesis"
Definition
1517: Luther's propositions allowing for academic debate that questioned the sales of indulgences and church offices. They engulfed the Holy Roman Empire in conflict.
Term
Beliefs of Lutheranism
Definition
*Sola fide (Faith alone.)
*Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone.)
*"Prieshood of all Believers"- It is through all believers prayers not just one person alone.
*Rejected the idea of transubstantiation (it really becomes body/ blood of Chirst) and adopted consubstantiation (God is present, but it is only spiritual)
Term
Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor)
Definition
Issued the Diet/ Edict of Worm in 1521 stating that Luther is a heretic and tries to supress him and people could not favor him.
*King of Spain, Holy Roman Empire, Italy, and the Netherlands
*Ruled: Holy Roman Empire from 1519-1556, Spain from 1516-1556, Netherlands from 1506-1555
*Opposed the Reformation by creating the Council of Trent which was a Counter-Reformation and supported the conquests to the Americas.
Term
Anabaptists
Definition
Radical Reform movement that began in the 1520s.
Practiced: Adult Baptisim, only scripture, and plain living.
*Started a "Radical Revolution" in 1533, they took over Munster, and did many things against the Crhistian Religion.
*They were finally suppress and many were executed by fire.
Term
Huldrich Zwingli
Definition
*A founder of the reformed tradition. Began his movement in Zurich.
*He believed communion was purely symbolic and did not believe in Constubstantiation.
* Helped convice leader to shut down the Anabaptist.
Term
John Calvin
Definition
Developed calvinism thorough his book "Institues of the Christian Religion" (1536).
*Emphasis: soverignty of God, total depravity (humanity is totally corrupt), predestination, communion is taken symbolically.
* This spread into modern day presyterian, reformed, congregationalist.
Term
English Reformation
Definition
King Henry VIII wanted to get his marraige to Catherine of Aragon (the daughter of Ferdianad and Isabella, the Spainsh monarchs) anulled because she could have any males. He also wanted this because he had his mistress Anne Boylen pregnant and she might have his heir. Therefore, he asked the pope for an anulement, and when the pope said no he created the Act of Supremecy.
Term
Act of Supremacy (1534)
Definition
Made King Henry VIII the head of the Church of England/ Anglican Church. He made everyone in parliment or that needed to sign it and if they didn't they were executed.
*He did this so he could seperate from Catherine of Aragon.
*Anne Boylen didn't have a son.
Term
Thomas More
Definition
Refused to sign the Act of Supremacy and said " the King's good Servant, but God's first."
*He was executed.
Term
Mary I ("Bloody Mary")
Definition
The daughter of Catherine of Aragon. Took over the throne after her father Henry VIII died. She persecuted many protestants and returned England to Roman Catholicism.
Term
Elizabeth I
Definition
Daughter of Henry VIII and half-sister to Mary I. She took over the throne after Mary died. She returned the religion back to protestantism. She created the Elizabethan Settlement which separtated the Church of England from the Catholic Church. It made the Church follow catholic ritual and protestant theology.
Term
Catholic Reformation
Definition
Also called the counter Reformation. There were abuses in the relgious order or priestly vows, such as: Purirt, Chastity, Obedience. The Rerfomation Began at the Coucil of Trent ( 1545-1563) an ecumenical council that met to talk about the problems with the catholic church.
Term
Changes and Renwal of the Catholic Reformation
Definition
Reform: began a seinimary system, aboliton of sales of indulgences
Renewal:catechesis (oral instruction of doctrine), private confessions, the tridentine mass (uniform mass in Latin)
Term
Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Definition
Created a new order called the carmelites. She created a convent and made then life strict lives of poverty. The were not allowed to wear shoes.
*She wrote book called Interior Castle about the soul and how it must go throgh many layers.
Term
Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Definition
Began his life as a solider and he didn't think it was a good life, therefore he went to serve the church. In 1540 he founded The Society of Jesus (Jesuits). He got direct permission from the Pope to be called this. You had to be a exceptional educated man to be in this order. They were traveling missionaries and they adopted the native culture.
Term
The Inquisition
Definition
Organization in Church in Spain to try to weed out heretic Church teachings. Revived to combat protestantism thru the 1700s.
Term
The Black Legend (La Leyenda Negra)
Definition
The idea that the inquisition was cruel. However, it was over exaggerated. Only about 2% were executed, and they didn't harm the elderly, pregnant, or children.
Term
Index of Forbidden Books
Definition
There were certain books that people could read because they believed it would destroy the catholic faith. Papal Index.
Term
Witch Hunts
Definition
Belief that witches had a pact with the devil.
*usual supsects: cunning folk (midwvies, etc), poor, women.
*Trials and execution--happened different places different times.
*Ergotism theory--Fungus that made people go crazy seeming bewitched.
Term
"Wars of Religion"
Definition
The Halian Wars--the Hapsburgs fought Spain and France over Ital but had a hard time because the ottoman empire, also fighting was srtong. Hapsburg finally got Italy.
Term
Sack of Rome (1527)
Definition
During the Wars or Religion.
* German Protestant easily took over the city
*Paved way for reform.
Term
The Seige of Vienna (1529)
Definition
Ottoman laid seige to vienna- Had modern waeponary--shocked Europe.
Term
Catherine de Medicis
Definition
Was a Politique--more concerned with political stability.
*She gave limited toleration to the calvinist in france called the Huguenots.
*When civil war broke out she treid to play off factions of either side against each other.
*She married her daughter Marguerite or Henry of Navarre--Head of the burbon family (calvinist)
*Scared by the revenge of the Huguenots she order her son to kill all the leading nobles.
*St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre- August 24, killing of many huguenots.
Term
Henry of Navarre (Henry IV)
Definition
Was also a Politique. Took throne after death of Henry the III who had no heir. He public embraced catholicism, but issued the
*Edit of Nantes (1598)--which granted the Huguenots a large measure of religious toleration.
Term
Phillip II
Definition
Sucessor of Charles V after he was tired of fighting 30 years war, grandson of Ferdidand and Isabella.
*Invaded Papal territories to shut down rebellion, and had the largest area.
*Claimed he was the true King of England.
*1566- Revolt in the Netherlands- dutch calvinist didnt like catholic rule--became independent.
*1568-1570- Rebellion of Moriscos (muslims who pretended to be christian
Term
Mary Queen of Scots
Definition
Was improsioned because she was a catholic and they didnt want her in power. She consipred against the queen (Elizabeth I) and they beheaded her. When Phillip II heard of this he sent the spanish armada to England. However, his fleet was easily destryoed.
Term
Thirty Years War
Definition
There is no one single cause for the war. However, they were mainly started in the Holy Roman Empire, which is the German states. It was wars over religion based on Catholicism and Protestantism. A lot of it started because of the Peace of Ausburg which didn't allow room for Calvinism.
Term
Defenestration of Prague
Definition
Bohemians siezed deputies and threw them out of a window to make a point.
Term
Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Definition
It was a turning point. Your religion was based on the prince who reigned over you. The Hapsburgs lost a lot of territory. It was a: religious settlement, a shift in power, and it set diplomatic precedence.
Term
Geocentric cosmology
Definition
The earth is at the center of the universe and it is set up in crystalline spheres or layers. The ideology come from Aristotle and a christian view. It has a prime mover (the sun), a lunar region, and a sub lunar region. It also had the idea of epicycles in which the planted would do a loop during its course.
Term
heliocentric cosmology
Definition
This is the belief that the sun is at the center of the solar system. this took off during the renaissance. It was originally discovered by Aristarchus but Nicholas copernicus actually saw the sun at the center. There were some problem though: it went against the Bible and aristotle, ideology was messed up, and the math and physics didnt make sense.
Term
Johannes Kepler
Definition
Came up with the three laws. The elliptical orbit (which accounted for the math flaws). and he believed in mysticism (that the stars/ planets had souls.
Term
Galileo Galilei
Definition
Catholic--materialist in terms of the universe. He created a better telescope and saw many things. He said the planets orbits were circular and he discovered the principle of accelerated motion. When he started talking like this and didnt have proof he was put under house arrest.
Term
Issac Newton
Definition
Came up with newtonian physics--gravity and inertia. Calculus and principa (mathmatic principles of natural philosophy).
Term
Francis Bacon
Definition
Reacted to the philosophical crisis. mysticism v. rationalism.
he came up with the inductive method or the scientific method.
Term
Rene Descartes
Definition
Believed in God. Wrote the discourse on method where he was trying to prove that he existed and go back the the basics. He said "i think, therefore i am." He did the cartesian separation of the physical/ spiritual.
Term
Blaise Pascal
Definition
He was a mathematician and a believer in God. He came of with "the wager" which was the possibilities based on analysis and opinion. he said it was a good bet to believe in god.
Term
Military Revolution
Definition
The began differing from the medieval way of war and had an introduction of gunpowder and the early cannon called the bombard. it was a shift from bows to guns. They shifted to an infantry or standing army because of the guns. And now they had to train their soldiers.
Term
bureaucracy
Definition
an organization of non-elected officials of a government or organization who implements the rules, laws, and functions of their institution. It is a modern system and rose taxes.
Term
Constitutional (limited) monarchy
Definition
In England. is a form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the parameters of a constitution, whether it be a written, uncodified, or blended constitution. They had a bicameral parliament which was included two houses. The House of Lords (aristocrats), and the house of Common (Commoners).
Term
Magna Carta (1215)
Definition
The 1215 charter required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties, and accept that his will was not arbitrary, for example by explicitly accepting that no "freeman" (in the sense of non-serf) could be punished except through the law of the land, a right which is still in existence today
Term
Tudor Dynasty
Definition
In England. It was Henry VII, VIII, and Elizabeth 1, after she died with no heir to the throne. The Stuart Dynasty took over.
Term
Stuart Dynasty
Definition
Suspected of being catholics. James I was the son of Mary queen of Scots and then Charles I, who was dethroned during a rebellion. They believed in divine right.
Term
Long Parliament
Definition
The Long Parliament of England was established on 3 November 1640[note 1] to pass financial bills, following the Bishops' Wars. It received its name from the fact that through an Act of Parliament, it could only be dissolved with the agreement of the members[1] and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and at the end of Interregnum in 1660.
Term
Oliver Cromwell
Definition
Was a Puritan Military leader who set through the Long Parliament. Took over when there was no King. He was a monocrat and titled himself lord protector, he didnt allow christmas
Term
The restoration
Definition
The stuart dynasty was invited back and Charles II ruled. He had no legitimate children so his brother James II took over. He was catholic and when he had a son he was banished in fear that England would become catholic.
Term
The Glorious Revolution
Definition
William and Mary were invited to rule England. They were both protestant but before they could take the throne they had to agree to a bill of rights- which was them agreeing to a limited monarchy.
Term
John Locke
Definition
Two Treatise on Civil Government. He believed that everybody has natural rights that they are entitled too which include life, liberty, and property.
Term
Absolute Monarchy
Definition
This was in France under Louis XIV. He said I am the state. He had sole say in anything that went on in government.
Term
Louis XIV
Definition
Also know as the "sun King" because of his liking to Apollo. He had a very strong idea of image and a strong taste in the arts. He built an enormous place called versailles where he would have lavish parties and his most trusted men lived there.
Term
Divine right Monarchy
Definition
Catholic political Theory. The King is responsible to God and should treat his subject right.
Term
Bishop Bossuet
Definition
wrote on King's divine authority. Kings are gods ministers, must answer to god, monarchy in heaven. Basically you cant do anything to them.
Term
Peter the Great
Definition
Tsar of Russia, he wanted russia to westernize quickly. Knew russia was backwards politically and economically. He suppressed the Sreltsy and imposed taxes on those who refused to westernize. He created a centralized state.
Term
Table of Ranks
Definition
New hand of aristocracy on how well you serve the tsar.
Term
St. Petersburg
Definition
Got this land in the Great Northern Wat. It was a warm water port so it would freeze during the year. It was a Window to Europe and population grew fast. It was very successful however, many lost their lives building it.
Term
Erasmus
Definition
Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style. He was an early proponent of religious toleration, He was a Dutch Catholic preist and theologian.
Term
The Praise of Folly
Definition
In Praise of Folly is considered one of the most notable works of the Renaissance and was employed as one of the catalysts of the Protestant Reformation Written By Erasmus.
Term
Francis Xavier
Definition
was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre (now part of Spain) and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He was a student of Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven Jesuits, dedicated at Montmartre in 1534.[1] He led an extensive mission into Asia, mainly in the Portuguese Empire of the time.
Term
Huguenots
Definition
Calvinist in France.
Term
raison d'etat
Definition
is a country's goals and ambitions whether economic, military, or cultural.
Term
Cardinal Richelieu
Definition
By restraining the power of the nobility, he transformed France into a strong, centralized state. His chief foreign policy objective was to check the power of the Austro-Spanish Habsburg dynasty, and to ensure French dominance in the Thirty Years' War that engulfed Europe. Although he was a cardinal, he did not hesitate to make alliances with Protestant rulers in attempting to achieve his goals.
Term
Baroque
Definition
The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe.
Term
mercantilism
Definition
Mercantilism is the economic doctrine in which government control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring the prosperity and military security of the state. In particular, it demands a positive balance of trade.
Term
Levellers
Definition
The Levellers were a political movement during the English Civil War which emphasised popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law, and religious tolerance, all of which were expressed in the manifesto "Agreement of the People"
Term
Tories and Whigs
Definition
Tories:the Tories represented the more conservative royalist supporters of Charles II, who endorsed a strong monarchy as a counterbalance to the power of Parliament, and who saw in the Whig opponents of the Court a quasi-Republican tendency
Whigs: The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule.
Term
Social Contract Theory
Definition
Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority of the ruler or magistrate (or to the decision of a majority), in exchange for protection of their natural rights.
Term
Thomas Hobbes and Leviathan
Definition
His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.
Hobbes was a champion of absolutism for the sovereign but he also developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought: the right of the individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and the state); the view that all legitimate political power must be "representative" and based on the consent of the people; and a liberal interpretation of law which leaves people free to do whatever the law does not explicitly forbid.
Term
Essay Concerning Human Understanding/ Tabula Rasa
Definition
by John Locke concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa, although he did not use those actual words) filled later through experience. The essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy, and influenced many enlightenment philosophers, such as David Hume and George Berkeley.
Term
John Milton
Definition
He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost.
Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day.
Term
Salons
Definition
A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation
Term
Age of Exploration
Definition
Globalization- European nations spread- wanted to find metals- commercial and consumer revolution. Portugal and Spain took the lead.
Term
Atlantic World
Definition
Also called the atlantic system- looking for other routes to the east--china and india.
Term
Vasco De Gama
Definition
Goes all the way around Africa to India--Portuguese.
Supporting users have an ad free experience!