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More Renaissance
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10th Grade
02/24/2007

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Commercial Revolution Characteristics
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Nations looking for new trade routes-led to new explorations, Nations sought new sources of wealth and new economic theories/practices to deal with new found wealth, Nations had to desire for increased world power through colonial empires
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Effects of Commercial Revolution
Definition
increased world trade, population increases and stronger middle class, shift from old market ports of Mediterranean to trans-Atlantic trade, trade restrictions, slave trade/Triangle trade, Changes in social structure
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Adam Smith
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"Father of Capitalism", "ANTI-mercantilist"
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Producers
Definition
person/company/country that makes/grows/supplies, goods/commodities for sale
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Consumers
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purchases goods and services for personal use
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Market Economy
Definition
operates by volunteer exchange in free market, not planned/controlled by central authority; capitalist
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Natural Price
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price not greater or less than sufficient to pay for land rent, labor wages and profits according to natural rates
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Market Price
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price of commodity when sold in given market
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Effectual Demand
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quantity demanded at natural price, enough money to buy product
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Absolute Demand
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Those who want particular goods
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Law of Competition
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compete as best you can, but don't take it too far
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Law of Supply & Demand
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price for a good will move towards level where supply and demand are equal
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Standarized Money
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coins minted with fixed value; increased trade and banking in 1400s, had more silver/gold to work with; no more cutting edges/grooved edges, paper money more common-could hold value
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Joint-Stock Companies
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independent merchants join together and form companies, sold stock (shares) of company to investors, investors divided profit in proportion to number of stocks owned, financed by explorations
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Mercantilism
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Economic theory that world contains fixed amount of wealth, to increase one country's share it must be taken from other countries-Competition!
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Balance of Trade
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to increase your country's wealth, had to sell more than buy, strove for positive balance of trade
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Tariffs
Definition
tax/imports
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Subsidies
Definition
government funded industry
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Self-Sufficiency
Definition
get own resources without paying others
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Colonies
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seen as best way to achieve good balance of power under system of mercantilism, require colonies get raw materials free/cheap, without paying rival countries
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Slave Trade
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emerged as responsibility to new colonies to demand for labor-wiped out lot of native population with disease, work on plantation was labor intensive
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Triangular Trade-Europe to Africa
Definition
cotton clothes, weapons, liquor, beads
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Triangular Trade-Africa to Americas
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slaves
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Triangular Trade-Americas to Europe
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raw materials (cotton, sugar, etc)
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Middle Passage
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brutal, dehumanizing, little food/water, 1500s-2000s/yr., 1780s-8000/yr., 11-14 million survived, Europe population up, Africa population didn't increase from 1650-1800
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Aristotle Method of Proving Earth is Round
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shadow of earth as it crossed moon during eclipse was circular, stars' heights larger further north
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Aristotle-"armchair explorer"
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only used logic to prove theories, when he said he could demonstrate the libvability around the earth by comparing the conditions north and south of the equator
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World View of Medieval Europe
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religious and theological, transformation caused by scientific revolution-humans worthier than first thought
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Aristotle Views Still accepted in Medieval Europe because...
Definition
made humans center of universe, gave throne to god, created link called 'great chain of being'
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Aristotle Views of the Universe
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earth motionless and at center of universe, ten crystal spheres circled around it, first eight were moon, stars, sun, five known planets, tenth and ninth where god and saved souls were
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Copernicus Theories
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improve upon ideas of Ptolemy and Aristotle, believed sun was center of universe, stars seemed to move because earth was rotating around sun, universe really huge, no throne for god
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Tycho Brahe
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detailed observations of star in 1572, built most sophisticated observatory of his day, massive amount of data over twenty years, not good math skills, couldn't really understand own data
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Johannes Kepler
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Brahe's assistant, able to put data together because he had a better understanding of math
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Three Laws of Planetary Motion
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designed by Kepler, planets moved around sun in oval shapes, planets didn't always move at same speed, amount of time it takes for a planet to completely finish its orbit is directly related to how far away it is from the sun
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Galileo
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elborating and consolidating modern experimental method-easier to understand, proved when things thrown/dropped with same force, speed of acceleration was also same, created law of inertia, tried for heresy, imprisoned and threatened by torture, improved telescope, discovered four moons of jupiter
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Law of Inertia
Definition
Objects in motion like to stay in motion, objects at rest like to stay at rest, unless acted upon by an outside force
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Newton
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combined theories of other scientists to create simple explanation of motion on earth and in sky, created set of mathematical laws to help explain mechanics and motion, force=mass times acceleration, three laws of gravity, cause and effect
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Lazy Aristotle
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never bothered to test hypothesis about habitability of world around equator because it was supposedly very hot and unbearable, same for 'frigid zone' farther from equator
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Ironic Copernicus
Definition
originally wanted to glorify god, instead proved no concrete place for god to be in universe, earth wasn't center, protestants stronger in attack beacause Catholics hadn't put as much weight on Bible yet
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Scientific Method vs. Aristotelian Observation
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sci method offers more chances to get actual facts
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Donatello
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sculptor, used wood, marble, bronze, first to do free-standing statues, bronze David most famous-first free-standing nude statue, not a lot known about personality, three stages of work, went from goth to more humanism, realist
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Judaism-1500s
Definition
not doing well, diaspora, scapegoats, no home, many problems, success downfall, blamed for plague
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Islam-1500s
Definition
would have been main religion if not for Battle of Tours, Moors, influenced architecture, most in middle east, merchants
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Christianity-1500s
Definition
led by Pope, the church in Europe, west in rome, east in Constantinople
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Fancy Lifestyle of Clergy/Pope
Definition
not right, supposed to be spiritual guides
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Black Plague
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Turned to church, blamed god/church
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Babylonian Captivity
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French King upset with Pope's extravagant and corrupted lifestyle, challenged them, Avignon held captive
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Great Schism (Great Divide)
Definition
1417, two divisions of power, popes excommunicated each other, didn't help church, look elsewhere for salvation, people voice more opinions, most northern humanists attacked church
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John Wycliffe
Definition
attacked wealth/power of Pope
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John Huss
Definition
spread same ideas as John Wycliffe, burned at stake, excommunicated
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Sale of Indulgences
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piece of paper, people work for church, pardon self of sins by buying them, selling to bunch of people, Pope sold this
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Nepotism
Definition
give position away
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Simony
Definition
buy position
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Protestant Reformation
Definition
Northern Humanists accused church of losing sight of original mission-inner spirituality, too many complications
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Pope Leo X
Definition
wants to rebuild St. Peters, needs money
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Johann Tetzel
Definition
Pope's best seller of indulgences, pope sent him to northern germany to sell in town square
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Martin Luther
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wanted to be lawyer, freak lightning storm-hid in church, became monk, bough indulgences, didn't fell any different, realized something was wrong with church, well educated, felt damned all the time, married
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95 Theses
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1517, complaints nailed on church about why indulgences were wrong/unneccessary
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Break With Church
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1520, printing press helped spread news
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Diet of Worms
Definition
1521, meeting called to shut Luther up, he hid in a castle til things quieted down, translated Bible into German, lots of people agreed
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Peace of Augsburg
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1555, each individual german province chose between catholicsm or something else
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Sects
Definition
branched off, new religions made-most died out
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Henry VIII and the Anglican Church
Definition
wants a son, wife won't so he wants a divorce, Pope says no, so he starts new church-Anglican Church, became safe haven for prosecuted people
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John Calvin
Definition
influenced by Luther, developed Calvinism based in Geneva, banned from city
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Predestination
Definition
people pre-picked by god for duties, obligations, no dancing, card playing, cult status, french calvins-Hugirats(?)
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Puritanism
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part of Calvinist Church, went to England, colonies in America
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Pope Benedict
Definition
supposed to get Catholic Church back on track, expected to be gone soon
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Franscisco Pizarro
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conquerer of peru, killed lot of Incans, Spanish influence
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Albrecht Durer
Definition
brought Italian Renaissance to Germany, painted self like Jesus
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Medici
Definition
patron of arts, collected taxes, takes credit for many artists' fame
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Leonardo da Vinci
Definition
painted Mona Lisa, Last Supper, many talents
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Michelangelo
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didn't want to be merchant, excelled in art, sculptor, didn't bathe
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Cortez
Definition
invaded Mexico, Aztec Empire, Spain, with disease
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Van Eyck
Definition
self portrait, perfect oil painting, date pics, symbolism
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Rembrandt
Definition
art, historical paintings, light, shadow
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Guttenburg
Definition
printing press, spread ideas, discovered church's faults
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Dante
Definition
exiled, wrote many poems, illusions
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Rene de carte
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father modern philosopher, math system for graphing
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Shakespeare
Definition
new style of drama, introduction of more "English" words
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Petrarch
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started humanism, perfected sonnet, traveled a lot
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Brugel
Definition
painters, master, guilds
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Magellan
Definition
exploration to Spain, get to Americas
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Machiavelli
Definition
entered clerk service, exiled, wrote The Prince
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Prince Henry
Definition
navigator, captured sucrus (?), spread christianity
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Brunelleschi
Definition
architect, father Renaissance architecture, linear perspective
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Botticelli
Definition
"little barrel of rum", Birth of Venus, feminine beauty
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Thomas Moore
Definition
wrote Utopia-perfect world, guidelines of society
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Vernini
Definition
sculptor, painter, "Apollo and Dauphne", brought life and detail to art
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Chaucer
Definition
writer of 14th and 15th century, wrote Kindaberry Tales
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Raphael
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painter, from Rome, did a painting for Julias II
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Erastme
Definition
satire on church book, loyal catholic
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Cervantes
Definition
failed playwright, wrote Don Quixote
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Changes Instituted by Council of Trent
Definition
made priests go to exams, produced books, dogma on marriages, teach obediants, question bible-put in jail
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Church Needs Accurate Calendar
Definition
didn't know dates, had to set holidays on right days/times
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Vesalius
Definition
excellent work in anatomy, many books, intricate details, found many flaws in Galen's work
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Scientific Revolution Outcomes
Definition
Experimental Method, Mathematization of Nature-quantitative instead of qualitative, practical use of scientific knowledge-patrons, development of scientific institutions
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Experimental Method
Definition
question/purpose, hypothesis, materials, procedure, data, analysis, conclusion
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