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48 Cards in this Set
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renaissance |
means rebirth |
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humanism |
importance of humans
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secular |
acting of no religious basis |
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Italian Renaissance historian, politician, diplomat,philosopher, humanist, and writer.
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Leonardo DA Vinci |
painter, painted the last supper |
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Johannes Gutenberg
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introduced printing to Europe
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Indulgences
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pay for your sins |
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William Shakespeare |
famous poet, wrote Romeo and Juliet |
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Protestant Reformation
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most people found the church unconcerned with their spiritual needs
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Martin Luther
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wrote the 95 theses |
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John Calvin
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Made Calvinism |
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counter reformation |
17. successful in restoring, to stop complaints about catholic things did not look good for Catholicism due to the spread of Protestantism
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Council of Trent |
Catholicism to parts of Europe and in spreading it to other parts of the world
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Henry the Navigator |
early development of Portuguese exploring
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Vasco da Gama |
first to sail from Europe to India |
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Christopher Columbus |
"first" to find the americas |
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Ferdinand Magellan
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found that the Earth is round |
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circumnavigate |
to go around |
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Sir Francis Drake |
found the terro DE fuego, second to circumnavigate the world |
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Henry Hudson |
Hudson river, many bodies of water |
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Encomienda
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demand tribute and forced labor
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Hernan Cortes |
defeated the Aztecs |
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Conquistador
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conquerors
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Francisco Pizarro
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conquered the Inca
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Viceroys |
authority in a colony |
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Treaty of Tordesillas-
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Spain and Portugal agreement, there is a line between and Spain gets west and Portugal gets East
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Columbian Exchange
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transfer of plats, animal, culture, technology and disease between the Americas, Asia, and North America
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Mercantilism-
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benefits of profitable trading
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Capitalism
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trade is controlled by private owners for profit
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joint-stock companies
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stock held by shareholders |
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plantations |
area of land where a plant is specifically put there to be planted |
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triangular trade
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trading slaves from North America, Africa, and South America all in a triangle
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Middle Passage-
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passage for slaves through the triangular trade
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Ottomans-
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40. founded by the Osman Bey in 1299Replaced the Mongol Empire in Anatolia, eastern Turkey
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absolute monarch
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monarch has complete control without limits from the constitution or from law
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divine right
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political doctrine, tells a monarch is the subject of authority directly from the will of god
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Philip II
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king of Spain |
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Spanish Armada
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ships that sailed from A Coruna under the command of Medina Sidonia
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Geocentric Theory
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theory that puts earth in the center of the universe and every other planet is in the POV of Earth
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Scientific Revolution
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historical changes
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scientific method |
process of how the make an experiment
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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formulated that the universe is placed around the sun rather than the earth at the center of the universe
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53. heliocentric theory-
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model of the solar system that posits a central place for the Sun, with the planets orbiting it.
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Galileo-
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Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
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Isaac Newton
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developed the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion
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Enlightenment
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emphasizing reason
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social contract
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an implicit agreement
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john locke |
argued against the belief that human beings are born with certain ideas already in their minds.
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