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What was the "Renaissance"?
What did it stand for?
A period of cultural, artistic, political, and economic rebirth in Europe?
What were the 95 theses and why were they important?
What did they include?
95 complaints about how the church was being run
selling indulgences (not in the bible)
Mary Wollstonecraft was an Enlightenment thinker who advocated for women's ___________.
rights
Explain what Reign of Terror was?
A violent period during the French Revolution
Who was the Medici family?
Why were they so well known?
How'd they gain their wealth?
Italian family comprised of bankers
Well known for ruled Florence and Tuscany for a long time
banking and trading
What are indulgences
paper promising heaven not hell
What was the age of Exploration?
What were they influenced by (3G)
A period from the late 15th to early 17th century where European powers explored the globe searching for new trade routes and colonies.
Influence by Gold, Glory, and God
What was the significance of the Industrial Revolution?
Which nation led the era?
What were some of the effects?
Transformed societies from rural to urban changing what goods were produced
Great Britain
Bad living conditions
Why was Johannes Gutenberg's printing press so revolutionary?
because previously you'd spend days to re-write a book
What was the significance of the Scientific Revolution?
What was the impact of European life?
a new way of thinking about the natural world based on observation
answers to unanswered questions were answered
What were some negative and positive effects of the Exploration Age?
Neg - mass slavery
Pos - Discovering America
What was the Protestant Reformation?
Why did it occur?
What was the effect of it?
A 16th century religion
Political, intellectual, and cultural upheaval
split the church
What was the Scientific Method?
Who discovered it and why is it important?
Exploring observations
Bacon and Descartes
important because its what all scientists use today
What was the leading cause of the French Revolution?
The imbalance of social classes
Who was Martin Luther and what was his role during the Reformation?
A monk who didn't agree with how the church was being run.
His role was a wake-up call to people about the church's wrongdoings
Who was Corpernicus and why is he important?
A Renaissance astronomer and mathematician
Published the heliocentric theory (earth and other planets revolve around the sun)
Contrast the difference between the First, Second, and Third Estates (French Revolution)
First - Had a lot of power and paid little taxes/involves in the church
Second -Had power and paid no taxes
Third - Had almost no power and paid high taxes
What was the Enlightenment and some of its impacts?
An 1800's cultural movement in Europe that inspired democratic values
What was the importance of Galileo and his involvement with the church?
He had severely different opinions compared to the church. Church believed all planets and the sun revolve around the earth but Galileo was correct to say in was the sun at the center.
What was absolutism?
A single person rules
What is at the center of a Geocentric model
Earth
What occurred at the Tennis Court Oath?
Hint - One of the estates did something that spurred the _________ _______________.
The third estate's defiance of the Monarchy- the beginning of the French Revolution
Thomas Hobbes supported this type of monarchy.
Absolute Monarchies
What is at the center of a Heliocentric model?
The Sun
Why is the date July 14th, 1789 significant?
The storming of Bastille
John Lock was an Enlightenment thinker who was one of the first modern believers in ____________.
Democracy
What was Issac Newton's addition to science?
Gravity
Explain the Declaration Rights of man. (It inspired three things)
How did this impact the French people? (Inspired a framework)
Life, Liberty, and Equity
Provided a framework for a new government