World Civ. Midterm

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1483-1546

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-Martin Luther

-objected to the way the new indulgence was preached

-wrote a letter to the Pope, asking him to stop the abuse

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1519

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-Protestant Reformation

-occured in Rome

-Luther burned the papal bull (document) of condemnation, rejecting the pope's authority

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1545

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-Catholic Reformation

-occured in Northern Italy

-a result of the protestant reforms

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-A council that met at the city of Trent, in northern italy
-three sessions between 1545 and 1563
-distinquished proper Catholic doctrines from protestant "errors"

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Catholic Reformation

-Counter Reformation (reaction to Protestant Reformation

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1643-1715

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-Louis XIV

-Bourbon Dynasty

-palace in Versailles

-embraced Catholic faith

-union of church and state

-Spain

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language of religion

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Vernacular

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95 Thesis

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-about indulgences
-Martin Luther wrote this mainly because he did not likle the idea of indulgences but also to try and change some aspects of the Catholic Church

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1756-1763

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-Seven Years War

-b/w England, Prussia and France, Austria, Russia

-fought in the Carribean

British will maintain control (globalized economy)

-Portugal and Spain control global economy (gold and silver from the New World)

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-important part of the Catholic Reformation

-helped stem the Protestant tide and win back some

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Society of Jesus "Jesuits"

founded by Ignatius of Loyola

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1.
-believed balance of power/ absolute rulers (absolute monarchs) and constitutional monarch

2.
-argued the idea of "balance of power

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1. Louis XIV

2. John Locke

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Balance of Power:

Belief that power was given divinely (Divine Right)

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Absolute Ruler/ Absolute Monarch

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Balance of Power

Belief that power was inherited, but not by god

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Constitutional Monarch

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an economic theory that holds that the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable."

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Mercantilism

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1520-1566

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Suleyman "The Lawgiver"

-cosmopolitan
-forced open silk road again

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1556-1605

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Akbar the Great

-India
-religious war
-acts of tolerance
-Akbar is saying there will be no war
-while he is gone to observe his empire, the general has taken the thrown
-Akbar comes back and throws him out the window twice
-he establishes a central administration of the expanding state

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What Empire is Akbar the Great a part of?

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Mughal Empire

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1603

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Tokogawa Shogunate

-in Japan
-establishment of a more centralized state
-welcomed trade
-European merchants

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1689-1725

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Peter the Great

-thinking revolution
-enlightened yet absolute ruler
-changed nobility's status
-married to Catherine the Great
-rules in Russia
-wanted warm port
-Russia's territory is expanded westward to Poland and Eastward to Alaska

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1100's

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Daimyo

-Japan
-warlords (most successful warlord-Hideyoshi)
-emporor is losing power
-Hideyoshi invades Korea
-regional governors

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1368-1644

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Ming Dynasty

-before Qing Dynasty
-in China
-(Hongxi, Wanli, Eunuch)
-transformed global economy
-sons will have a chance to become governors

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1661-1911

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Qing Dynasty

-Manchu family
-after Ming Dynasty
-(Kangxi, Quinlong)

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1552-1610

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Matteo Ricci

-bringing Western Tradition
-the people make him a bureaucrat
-accomplish scholar of Confusious classics
-outstanding Jesuit of late Ming China

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1723

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Serfs

-transformation of peasants into serfs
-hereditary
-tied to land

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1798

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Toussaint Loverture

-most remarkable representation of revolutionary era
-Haiti
-defeats British in Haiti
-organized rebels into potent military force

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1775-1800

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American Revolution

-b/w Europe and the Americas
-British North America
-long process of political and cultural tranformation

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1789-1815

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French Revolution

-Louis XVI
-colonial revolution
-North America
-undermined traditional monarchy and Catholic Church
-expanded mass participation in political life

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1793-1794

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The Terror

-Robespierre
-failed effort of King and Queen to escape from Paris and find foreign allies

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1783-1830

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Simon Bolivar

-abolition of slavery
-Spanish South America

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1800-1850

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Caudillo System

-personalist leader who gained and held political power
-contact b/w Russia and Quig Dynasty