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