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Ignatius of Loyola
He thought about the past life of jesus. Gathered followers and the pope created a religious order for the followers called the society of jesus, the followers were known as jesuits.
John Knox
a scottish preacher who put Calvin's ideas to work. His followers became know as presbyterians.
Thomas Moore
tried to show a better model of society. Wrote a book called Utopia where he showed an imaginary land.
Henry VIII
Catholic King of England who takes the popes power away,m annuls marriage, and kids mess up the throne when they come to power.
Gutenberg
Invented the printing press
Calvin
Believed ideal government was theocracy, took over Geneva and started calvinism there.
Indulgences
a pardon; released sinners from performing the penalty the priest imposed for sins. You had to buy them.
Printing Press
could print hundreds of copies of one single work
Renaissance man
a man who excelled in many fields
Peace of Augsburg
Princes agreed that each ruler would decide the religion of his state.
Vernacular
native language
renaissance
rebirth of art and learning form 1300-1600
Reformation
a movement for religious reform
Shah Jahan
could not tolerate competition and secured his throne by assassinating all of his possible rivals.
Jahangir
left the affairs of the state to his wife
Safavids
a member of the Shi'a Muslim dynasty, built an empire in persia
Devershime System
in the ottoman empire, the policy of taking boys from conquered christian peoples to be trained as muslim soldiers.
Taj Mahal
beautiful tomb in Agra, India built by Shan Janhan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Decline of the Safafids and Ottoman empires
Both King the same mistake by blinding/killing their ablest sons, so there was no successor.
Cultural Blending in the ottoman empire
Cultural Blending leads to change in language, religion, styles of government, and military tactics.
Prince Henry
Son of Portugal's kings, dream of overseas exploration. Founded school of Navigation.
Vasco de Gama
Portuguese explorer that began exploring the coast, reached the port of calicut, found portugal a direct sea route to India and to many spices and goods.
Tokugawa Ieausu
unified japan
Zheng He
Chinese muslim led 7 large voyages. Distributed gifts everywhere to show chinese superiority, then china went into isolation.
Hongwu
Peasants son who commanded the rebel army that drove Mongols out of China. Became first Ming Emperor when he died it lead to a power struggle and his son Yongolo took over.
Dias
Portuguese explorar went far down the coast of Africa until he and his crew reached the tip. Went home because of the storm.
Caravel
Triangular sail that makes it easier to sail against wind.
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty that Spain and Portugal signed to honor the line dividing them.
Korea (vassal state)
remained independent, existed in china's shadow confusion principaled government koreans organized.
Haiku
Japanese form of poetry consisting of 3 lines. 5, 7, 5 syllables.
Kabuki
type of Japanese drama in which music, dance, and mime are used to present stories.
Daimyo
Japanese Feudal lord who maned private army of samurai
Spices
Islands are full of them
Reason's china did not become industrialized
because they were self sufficient and did not need the british
Japan's closed country policy
Sealed Japan's borders
1st Europeans to arrive on japanese soil
Shipwrecked Portuguese sailors washed upon the shores of southern Japan. Portuguese merchants.
Portugal and Sailing innovations
Created carvel, sextant, compass, and more navigation intruments
Cortes
Spaniard who landed on the shores of mexico. Colonized the Caribbean Islands and looked in America mainland for new lands for Spain.
Pizarro
Spanish conquistador marched a small force into south america and conquered the Incan Empire.
Columbus
Genoese sea captain who made a daring voyage for Spain, instead of sailing south around Africa and then east he sailed west around Africa and then east.
Vespucci
an Italian in the service of portugal who traveled along the eastern coast of south america. He claimed land in the "new" world, not Asia
Mercantilism
Nations of Europe adopted a new economic policy that held a countries power depended mainly on its wealth.
Economic Activity: New France
Didn't want a community. They only cared about money; depended on fur trade.
Encomienda System
system where natives farmed, ranched, or mined for spanish landlords.
The Dutch: New Netherlands
The dutch holdings in north america that encouraged settlers by opening its doors to a variety of people.
Difference in slavery in the americas vs. other countries
More harsh in the americas
Atlantic Slave trade
Buying and selling of Africans for work in the americas
Affect on Africa
9.5 Mil: Africa--> Americas
1st country to import slaves
Spain
Affect of the loss of Natives to disease
No more slaves to work. Need for slaves from africa.
Peter the great
Westernized Russia
Ivan the Terrible
Came to power when he was 3 years old. Thought that the boyars poisoned his wife so he organized his own police force to hunt down and murder them.
Maria Theresa
Inherited the Austrian throne and enemy was prussia. Guaranteed a peaceful reign.
Fredrick II
King of Prussia who softened his father laws
English Bill of rights
Parliament drafted it to make clear limits of power.
Restoration
Charles II restored the monarchy
Versailles Palace
Louis XIV built this palace to prove his absolute power, it also made him a patronage of the arts.
Edict of Nantes
declaration of religious tolerance.
Glorious Revolution
Bloodless overthrow of king james II, William and Mary took the throne
Boyars
Russia landowning nobles
War of Austrian Succession
Between Austria (Maria Theresa) and Prussian (Frederick the great) overland.
Divine Right
the idea that god created the monarchy and that a monarch acted as god's representative on earth.
St. Petersburg
The seaport Peter made to make it easier to travel to the west
Czar
a ruler
Thirty years war
a conflict over religion and territory and for power among European ruling families.
Russian Economy
Used potatoes, started newspaper, raised woman's status, western fashions, heavy tax, and education
Absolutism
Politic Belief that one ruler should hold all of the power within boundaries of a country.
Frederick II
ruled Russia, favored to end serfdom, gave nobles absolute power and expanded empire into western poland
Copernicus
Formed heliocentric theory
Bacon
Thought Scientists should reject old assumptions and ideas and try something new
Newton
Law of graviton/theory of motion
Montesquieu
Separation of powers, checks, and balences
Locke
Life, Liberty, and property. Positive view of human nature, believed people learned from experience
Diderot encyclopedia
for many scholars
Galileo
Published Starry Messenger, telescope, and supported Copernicus's theory.
Declaration of independence
written by thomas jefferson based on ideas of locke and the enlightment
Articles of confederation
created a weak government and only had 1 branch of congress
American Revolution causes
navigation act, enlightenment, boston tea party, and french and indian war/Lexington and concord
Heliocentric Theory
Theory formed by copernicus that everything revolved around the sun
Geocentric theory
Theory formed by Aristotle and Ptolmey that everything revolved around the earth.
Philosophers
social critics in this time that reformed
Baroque Style
style of european art which was characterized by a grand ornate style
Neoclassical Style
simple and elegant style from Greece and rome "new classical"
Treaty of Paris, 1783
recognition of American independence, established american boundaries contenetial congress
Scientific Revolution
a new way of thinking about the natural world