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What was the significance of the peace of westphalia? |
¤the end of the religious warfare between catholic and protestants.
¤Europe no longer religious and politically united.
¤Political and religios authority resides in the rulers of sovereign states.
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Absolutism |
All authority resides in a single hereditary monarch (king, queen, emperor) The power of the monarch includes: ¤ To maintain a loyal army. ¤ "" """""""""" " """"" bureocracy. ¤Taxition. |
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Constitutionalism |
Doctrine that a government's authority is determined by a body of laws or constitution. |
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Mercantilism |
¤"Favorable balance of trade" = Export more than import. ¤Markets and colonies provide raw materials for manufactured goods. |
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House of commons |
Also called commons, it is technically the lower house, is predominant over the house of lords. "Parliament" is often used to refer to the hausa of commons alone. |
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Versailles ( palace ) |
Former French royal residence and center of government. |
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Louis XIV OF FRENCH |
¤To expand France's borders to the river he launched a series of war. ¤The "sun king" ( 1643-1715 ) |
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Parliament |
¤A formal conference for the discussion of public affairs. ¤is the primary law-making institution in great Britain's constitutional monarchy ¤is the primary law-making institution in great Britain's constitutional monarchy |
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Diferences absolutism in Easter and Western Europe |
West: strong middle class, limited nobility. East: Weak middle class, strong nobility. |
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Serfdom |
System used by nobles and rulers where peasants were bound first to the land they worked and then by degrading obligations to the lords they served. |
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Motivations for Europeans expansion in north America and far East |
Europeans desired to find a new route to Asia, resulting in economic marginalization of Muslim world. And also religious motivations |
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Slavery |
Was a trade that the portuguese traders acquainted with the portuguese and the African slave trade. It was already widely in practice in west Africa and funded by sugar production. |
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Geocentric Universe |
Is a superseded description of the univer with earth at the center. Under geocentric model l, the sun, moon, stars and planets all orbited Earth. |
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East India companies |
Are able to raise and maintain their own private armies. |
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Heliocentric |
When the sun is orbited by the earth, planets and so on. |
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Adam smith |
¤Believed that economies should be based on a competitive free market with a minimum of government intervention = laissez-faire
¤Smith's ideas laid the intellectual foundation of capitalism as an economic model |
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John Locke |
= tabula rosa
¤The human mind is born "blank" = tabula rosa
¤Believed that government exist to protect the "natural rights" of its subjects (life, liberty and property)
¤Believed that government exist to protect the "natural rights" of its subjects (life, liberty and property)¤ ¤Believed that government exist to protect the "natural rights" of its subjects (life, liberty and property) |
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What was the Turkish' policy toward non-muslims? |
Emperators practiced Universal toleration |
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Why did the empire enter in a long period of decline after 1700? |
Experience economic difficulties after 1700 |
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What were the consequences of aurangzed's reign? |
¤Reverse tolerance policy toward hindus and attempted to impose strict Islamic law ¤The policies caused a major hindu revelation in southern and central India |
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Sultan |
Ruled an Absolut Monarchy |
