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Title: The Transformation of the West, 1450 1750 Chapter 16


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The Transformation of the West, 1450
1750Chapter 16
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Map 16.1Western Europe during the Renaissance
and the Reformation (page 369)
  • 1. Using the map on page 717 369, what modern
    nations are
  • - Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Calvinist,
    Eastern Orthodox, Muslim?
  • 2. What European nations are divided by religion?
  • 3. How might 2 religions in a nation affect its
    development?

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Map 16.2Europe under Absolute Monarchy, 1715
(page 374)
  • Which modern nations (use map on 717) already
    existed in 1715?
  • 2. Which modern nations have not yet emerged?
  • 3. Why would it be different to govern the Holy
    Roman Empire Italy?

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Culture Commerce - changes
Italian Renaissance - challenge medieval
intellectual values styles
start writing in Italian (not Latin)
15th century blossoms - da Vinci
Michelangelo change sculpture
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Machiavelli ideas like Chinese legalists
historians favor critical thinking over divine
intervention
merchants bankers move to profit-seeking,
capitalistic ways
Humanism focus on humanity as center of
creativity work -destiny controlled by man
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Italy declines in 1500s
Northern Renaissance
centered in France, low countries, Germany
England
Atlantic trade routes hurt Mediterranean economy
Shakespeare, Cervantes mix classical themes
with medieval popular culture
rulers - patrons of arts - try to control the
church - sponsor trade colonies
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education architecture favor classical styles
individuality defiance of tradition common
yet feudalism stays strong - ordinary people
not really affected
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technology improves - printing expands religious
technological thinking
European style family - marry later (smaller
population) - nuclear family
intensifies links between families individual
property holdings
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Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther - 1517
German princes seize church land (power), become
Lutheran
peasants saw as permission to rebel against
landlords
other Protestant groups - Anglican - Calvinists
Catholic reformation
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End of Christian Unity
Religious wars 16th 17th centuries
Edict of Nantes
English Civil war
30 years war - Germans dont recover for 100
years
wars affected European power balance political
structure
Spain
France power
England Netherlands develop international trade
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Protestant theory encouraged parliamentary power
greater emphasis to family life
religion daily life separate
literacy more widespread
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Commercial Revolution
economic structure changes
stimulate population, urban, manufacturing
growth
greater commercialization - inflation
trading companies formed
prosperity shared by all classes
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witch hysteria economic religious uncertainties
Renaissance, Reformation economic changes bring
divisions - b/t elite masses - popular
rebellions for political voice or against
landlords taxes
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revolution peaks in 17th century - spreads
quickly among educated
Science
church has trouble dealing with new science
Copernicus Galileo Kepler Harvey Descartes Newton
people control environment
science central to Western intellectual life
Locke learn through reason
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Absolute Parliamentary monarchies
feudal balance comes undone
France most important nation
absolute monarchy
improve internal international
trade manufacturing colonial development
Louis XIV
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Absolute monarchies Austria-Hungary Prussia Spain
- push territorial expansion
England power from the people, not royal divine
right
England Netherlands - parliaments
Nation-State
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West after 1700
major western states fighting each other
Political Patterns stay the same
France Britain over colonies Prussia
Austria over land
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continue scientific research apply scientific
method to study society
Enlightenment
criminology political science economics rationally
explain behavior
humans are naturally good reason was the key to
truth intolerant/blind religion was wrong
ideas spread - socially
family life changes
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Change in Commerce Manufacturing
mass consumerism
professional entertainment
spurs manufacturing
agriculture changes
population growth
technological innovations - flying shuttle
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