The following exercise is intended to clarify the geophysical environment and the spatial relationships among the important objects and places mentioned in the chapter. Locate the following places on the map.
Mark Protestant countries with a P and Catholic countries with a C.
Mark absolute monarchies with an A and parliamentary governments with a P.
Where were most Catholic countries located? Where were most Protestant nations? Is there any apparent connection between religious preference and the existence of absolute monarchy? Can you offer an explanation?
absolute monarchy
Louis XIV
Boccaccio
Adam Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft
Rabelais
Anglican church
Jean Calvin
predestination
Catholic Reformation
Jesuits
Edict of Nantes
Cervantes
95 Theses indulgences
Enlightenment
Denis Diderot
Catherine the Great
social sciences
William Shakespeare
Frederick the Great
Johannes Gutenberg
Martin Luther
Protestantism
John Kay
liberty and equality
Isaac Newton
Deism
Lutheranism Henry VIII
Marianne Ehrmann
Encylopaedia Britannica
capitalism
mercantilism
Glorious Revolution
Leonardo da Vinci
Niccolo Machiavelli
humanism
Northern Renaissance
parliamentary monarchy
Frederick the Great
Copernicus
Treaty of Westphalia
Elizabeth I
Scientific Revolution
witchcraft
René Descartes
Thirty Years War
I. The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce
A. A New Spirit
Identify Francesco Petrarch:
How was his writing different?
B. The Italian Renaissance
When and where does it begin?
When classs does it originate in?
Urbanized
Describe renaissance Painting:
B. The Italian Renaissance
Identify Michelango Buonarotti:
Describe the accomplishments of Leonardo da Vinci:
Describe the accomplishments Nicolo Machiavelli:
Describe Humanism
What did humanism draw on?
C. The Renaissance Moves Northward
When does the Renaissance move north?
Describe the Northern Renaissance:
Where does it start?
How was it dofferent from the Italian Renaissance?
Identify William Shakespeare:
Identify Miguel de Cervantes
D. Changes in Technology and Family
How wa printing important?
Describe changes in the Family
E. The Protestant and Catholic Reformations
What happens in 1517?
What does Luther see as the only authority?
How do vernacular translations aid in luther’s work?
In what ways are Protestant protest used for political gain?
Describe the German opposition to the papacy
What does Henry VIII do?
What does Jean Calvin do?
What is Predestination
Describe the Catholic Reformation
What role do the Jesuits play?
F. The End of Christian Unity in the West
Religious Wars
France
Who fought the religious wars in France?
Identify Edict of Nantes:
Describe the 30 Years War (1618-1648)
What were the outcomes?
G. The Commercial Revolution
What occurs in the 16th century woith regard to money?
Why does this happen?
H. Social Protest
What is the Proletariat?
How do Attitudes towards poor change?
Explain the Witchcraft hysteria:
A. Did Copernicus Copy?
Identify Nicolai Copernicus:
Identify and explain the significance of al-Urdi, al-Tusi:
II. Science and Politics: The Next Phase of Change
B. Science: The New Authority
How do New instruments add to data collection?
Identiofy Galileo Galilei:
Whose work does he use?
How do Kepler’s observations confirm earlier work?
Idenitfy William Harvey:
Methods
Identify Francis Bacon
Explain Empirical research:
Identify René Descartes
Explain Skepticism:
Identify Isaac Newton
Explain System of natural laws
What is Deism?
What system of thought does Locke advocate?
C. Absolute and Parliamentary Monarchies
How is the medieval balance disrupted in the 17th century?
Describe France’s monarchy:
What is an “Absolute monarchy?"
Identify Louis XIV:
Where were Other absolute monarchs ion Europe?
How was England Different?
Explain the English Civil War:
D. The Nation-State
What is a Nation State?
III. The West by 1750
A. Political Patterns
Describe the Great change in central Europe:
Identify Frederick the Great of Prussia:
Continual warfare
Explain the rivalry between France and Britain:
Explain the rivalry between Prussia and Austria:
B. Enlightenment Thought and Popular Culture
How does the Scientific Revolution lead to Enlightenment:
What are the General principles of the enlightenment”
Political science
Identify Adam Smith
Describe the advances in Criminology:
How do the following change at this time:
Women's rights
Protection of children
inequities
C. Ongoing Change in Commerce and Manufacturing
Describe Mass consumerism:
Explain the importance of the following to Agriculture:
Nitrogen-fixing crops
Stockbreeding
Swamp drainage
Potatoes, etc. introduced
Domestic system
D. Innovation and Instability
Explain the phrase “Change becomes the norm:”