Renaissance and Reformation
Why did people start to read more in the mid-1400s?
Because of the printing press
Who benefited most from the Columbian Exchange?
Europeans
Who was the father of modern philosophy who said " I think therefore I am"
Rene Descartes
Who was the main target of the Reign of Terror and why?
Peasants, because they were conservative and supported the Catholic church
Napoleon enacted a lot of changes to the French government, legal system, and army. What were these changes called?
Napoleonic Code
Who started the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
Who thought it first?: “Man is good but corrupted by society, however the majority should be trusted to rule.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Who is credited with creating the scientific method?
Francis Bacon
Why did the French people support Napoleon?
Because he brought order and stability after a period of violence and chaos
Napoleon is finally defeated by the British and Prussians at what battle?
Battle of Waterloo
Which king was inspired by the Protestant Reformation to leave the Church? Why did he do so?
King Henry VIII, wanted a divorce
Who thought it first?: “Mankind is naturally evil and requires a strong monarch to prevent chaos.”
Thomas Hobbes
I developed the sun centered universe known as heliocentric theory
Nicolaus Copernicus
Name the three estates in France before the French Revolution?
1st estate - Clergy
2nd estate - Nobles
3rd estate - Peasants
Since he had lost most of his navy, Napoleon intended to hurt the British economically by making the decree that no European port would accept British ships. What was this strategy called?
Continental System
Corruption in the Church, Renaissance ideas, spread of the Gutenberg Bible
What advantage did Europeans have that led them to develop language, weapons, and diseases earlier?
Geography - close to the Fertile Crescent
What crime did Copernicus and Galileo commit by confirming the heliocentric theory? Why?
Heresy; because the church believed in the geocentric model that God placed earth in the center of the universe
How did the American Revolution cause the French Revolution?
The French Revolution went into debt helping the Americans defeat the British which caused a financial crisis - led to revolution
Name two changes in French law due to the Napoleonic Code
Makes all Frenchman equal before the law
Allowed religious freedom
Institutes public education in the form of the secondary education lycées
Revises taxes, destroyed noble privileges (esp. primogeniture)
All adult men could have any job and own property
Established fathers/husbands as powerful heads of household
Unified the Law in France, ended regional practice
Put these events in order:
- Martin Luther nails the 95 Thesis
- Edict of Nantes
- Printing press is developed
- Christopher Columbus lands in America
- The Renaissance
1.) Printing press is developed (c. 1440)
2.) The Renaissance (c1400's)
3.) Christopher Columbus lands in America (1492)
4.) Martin Luther nails the 95 Theses (1517)
5.) Edict of Nantes (1598)
Put these events in order:
1.) American Revolution
2.) Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
3.) Christopher Columbus landed in America
4.) Spanish colonize South America
5.) Enlightenment
1.) Christopher Columbus landed in America
2.) Spanish colonize South America
What way of thought from the renaissance helped lead to the scientific revolution?
Humanism
Put the following events in order:
1. Tennis Court Oath
2. Storming of Bastille prison
3. National Assembly meets
4. Estates-General Convened
5. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
1. Estates-General Convened
2. Tennis Court Oath
3. National Assembly Meets
4. Storming of the Bastille
5. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Name two results of the Congress of Vienna
French lost all its conquered territory
Redrawing of boundaries
Restoration of monarchies
France had to pay reparations