Age of Exploration
Motivations of the age of exploration
God
gold
glory
Known as “rebirth” in French, this was a cultural movement in the 14th-17th centuries during which European artists, scientists, and scholars, were inspired by Classical achievements of the Greeks and Romans
Renaissance
Checks and Balances
3 branches - Executive, legislative, and judicial
montesquieu
In northern and central Europe there was a large group of reformers who left or challenged the Catholic Church's authority. These people are known as what?
Protestants
Scientific Revolution is based on observation and a willingness to question accepted beliefs in which they use _______ and __________ to answer questions about the natural world.
logic and reason
"old world"
Europe
Asia
Africa
Secular means what?
non religious
Life, Liberty, and Property
John Locke
the full or partial remission of temporal punishment for sins after the sinner confesses and receives absolution.
Indulgences
Italian, theories about astronomy, built his own telescope, wrote a book called Starry Messenger, laws of motion. Who is this?
Galileo
economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy. It promotes imperialism, colonialism, tariffs and subsidies on traded goods to achieve that goal.
Mercantilism
Greek and/or Roman Influence
Humanism
Emphasis on the Individual
Celebration of Secular Achievements
Freedom of speech
Voltaire
German monk and religious reformer who is credited for sparking the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.
Martin Luther
The scientific revolution is a cause of what?
the enlightenment
During what treaty did the Pope simply drew a line of demarcation [separation] and proposed that all lands discovered to the east of the line would belong to the Portuguese, and that all lands discovered to the west of the line would belong to the Spanish.
Treaty of Tordesillas
The statue Sistine Chapel was created by what artist?
Da vinci
A Political movement led by philosophers used logic and reason to question and challenge the power of the government
Enlightenment
In response to the sale of indulgences Luther drafted a set of propositions and questions and nailed these proposition's to the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg. Within three months it had spread through Europe with the help of the printing press.
95 theses
logical procedures for gathering & observation
Scientific method
Question
Research
Hypothesis
Experiment
data
Conclusion
This exchange of plants, animals, humans, bacteria, and technology between the Old World [Europe, Asia and Africa] and the New World [the Americas] is known as
Colombian exchange
In 1450, Johannes Gutenberg is going to lead to the spread of ideas and mass production with the invention of what?
Printing press
belief that God directly gave an absolute monarch the authority to rule.
divine right
Effects of the counter reformation (need at least 2/3)
Forbidden Books
The Inquisition
Society of Jesuits
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” This is a quote from what famous scientist
Sir Isaac Newton