| Renaissance and Reformation | began 1400's-1600's |
| Italian Renaissance | influenced by religion |
| Italian Renaissance | influenced by Greco-Roman style (Greek mythology) |
| Italian Renaissance | Leonardo de Vinci |
| Italian Renaissance | Michelangelo |
| Italian Renaissance | Raphael |
| Northern Renaissance | Germany, Netherlands, Belgium |
| Northern Renaissance | influenced by everyday life |
| Northern Renaissance | Rembrant |
| Northern Renaissance | Albrecht Durer |
| Northern Renaissance | Pieter Brueghel |
| humanism | philosophy of the Renaissance |
| scholastisism | reinforced the Catholic church |
| Machiavelli (Renaissance and Reformation) | author of "the prince" |
| "The Prince" | leaders should be feared, appear to see both sides of a situation "fox and lion" |
| Protestant Reformation | strengthening of the power of the state at the expense of the church |
| Protestant Reformation | spread of education |
| Protestant Reformation | end to religious unity |
| Protestant Reformation | strengthening of the middle class |
| mercantilism (Age of Exploration) | accumulation of wealth |
| Ming Dynasty | China |
| Ming Dynasty | began in llate 14th century |
| Ming Dynasty | founded by Ming Hong Wu |
| Ming Dynasty decline | late 16th century |
| Ming Dynasty decline | government corruption |
| Ming Dynasty decline | weak rulers |
| Ming Dynasty decline | taken by Manchus |
| Ming Dynasty decline | peasant revolt |
| Qing Dynasty | china |
| Qing Dynasty | mid 17th century |
| Qing Dynasty | founded by Manchus |
| Qing Dynasty | blending of Chinese/Manchurian culture |
| Qing Dynasty decline | late 18th century |
| Tokugawa Japan | late 15th/early 16th century |
| Tokugawa Japan | Tokugawa Ieyasu |
| Tokugawa Japan | stratified political system/social structure similar to feudal system |
| Tokugawa Japan decline | mid 19th century |
| Yi Dynasty | Korea ("hermit Kingdom') |
| Scientific Revolution | reason/logic |
| Scientific Revolution | geocentric vs. heliocentric theory |
| geocentric | earth centered (Aristotle, Ptolemy) |
| heliocentric | sun centered (Copernicus, Galileo) |
| Copernicus (Scientific Revolution) | "Revolution of Heavenly Bodies" |
| Copernicus (Scientific Revolution) | didn't publish theory until later in his life |
| Copernicus (Scientific Revolution) | was not persecuted by the Church's Inquisition |
| Galileo (Scientific Revolution) | was tried by the Inquisition |
| Galileo (Scientific Revolution) | house arrest, not allowed to experiment or research, recant theory, not allowed to publish |
| Galileo (Scientific Revolution) | was not executed because he was too famous |
| John Locke (Enlightenment) | "tabula rasa"- blank mind, experiences shape a person |
| Montesquieu (Enlightenment) | invented three branches of government (Legislative, Executive, Judicial) |
| Voltaire (Enlightenment) | political satirist, supporter of free speech |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Enlightenment) | "Social Contract"- people give up some of their rights to a string ruler for order and stability |
| Adam Smith (Enlightenment) | philosopher, economist, wealth of nations, capitolism |
| capitolism | profit motive, supply and demand |
| French Revolution | moderate- Declaration of the Rights of Man, Constitution of 1791, Storming of the Bastille |
| French Revolution | radical- led by Robespierre, Reign of Terror |
| Napoleon | military genius, work was undone by Congress of Vienna |
| Age of Exploration | new economic system |
| First European Explorers (Age of Exploration) | Portugal, Spain |
| treaty of Tordesillas (Age of Exploration) | divided the world into 1/2 (Portugal took East, Spain took West) |
| Effects of Trade on Africa (Age of Exploration) | internal conflict, war amongst tribes, depopulation, focus of economy shifts from East to West |
| Ottoman Empire | Turkey (Anatolian Peninsula), Greece (Balkan Peninsula), as far West as Hungary and Austria, coastal portions of Arabian Peninsula |
| Ottoman Empire | began in 14th century |
| Ottoman Empire | Sunni Muslim |
| Ottoman Empire | religiously tolerant |
| Suleyman 1 (Ottoman Empire) | killed family members to retain power, very sympathetic to citizens while remaining in complete power, "Lawgiver" |
| Ottoman Empire | decline- 17th century |
| Safavid Dynasty | Persia, Central Asia, Iraq, Iran |
| Safavid Dynasty | began in 16th century |
| Safavid Dynasty | Shiite Muslim |
| Safavid Dynasty | used Shiite faith to unite people of the Empire |
| Shah Abbas (Safavid Dynasty) | very structured army, latest weaponry |
| Safavid Dynasty | decline- early 18th century |