The Beginning of Modern Times

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The Beginning of Modern Times

• Chapter 9 Section 3
• (Pages 245-249)

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Renaissance1350-1815

• Begins in 1350
• interest in education, art and science
• N. Italy then spread through Europe
• Revisited classical Greece and Rome
• Curiosity and enthusiasm at the heart

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Artists

• Focus on the beauty of life
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Mona Lisa
• The Last Supper
• Michelangelo Buonarotti
• Statue of David
• Painted the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

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Sistine Chapels CeilingSt Peters Cathedral,
Vatican City
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Sistine Chapel
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The Printing Press

• Invented in 1450 by Johannes Gutenberg
• Father of printing in the western world.
• Larger access to books people encouraged to
  read and write
• Started to write in local language, not Greek or
  Latin

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Nationhood

• Rulers became more powerful
• United their countries with common culture and
  language.

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Nationhood

• Henry the VII and VIII in England,

Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain united Spain,
drove out the Moors
Louis XIV of France
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Protestant Revolution

• Reform Change
• Protestant- Protested many of the Catholic
  Churches teachings
• Priests more interested in wealth, not God
• Indulgences Wrong
• Sold documents freeing owners from sin

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Martin Luther

• A German priest, one of the first to challenge
  the Church
• 1520- Pope kicked him out of the Church
• Started own church (Lutherans)
• Spoke in German not Latin

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Reformation

• John Calvin
• Early Protestant Leader
• EnglandPuritan
• Wanted religious freedom
• Freedom in America to practice own religion
• Split caused many years of religious wars

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Age of Exploration

• Began in the mid-1400s
• Europeans wanted to trade more, explored the
  world
• Portuguese sailed to S. Africa and to India
• Spain looked for a faster way to the East.
• Christopher Columbus sailed west.
• Landed in Americas by mistake
• Thought he was in India, called the people
  Indians.
• Dutch, French, English traders followed.

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Age of Exploration

• Columbian Exchange- the trade of products and
  ideas between the Old World (Europe) and the New
  World (America)

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Age of Exploration

• Ideas Spread
• Religion
• Governments
• Technology
• Slavery
• 20 million Africans taken to Americas
• Most worked on plantations
• Outlawed early to mid 1800s

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Age of Exploration

• From Europe to America
• Live stock
• cotton
• sugar
• wheat
• ideas
• people
• Disease killed 90 of the NA pop small pox,
  measles, cholera, tuberculosis

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Age of Exploration

• From Americas to Europe
• Corn
• tobacco
• potatoes
• tomatoes
• chocolate
• turkey

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Age of Revolution

• With the printing press, ideas could spread
  faster and cheaper
• First modern revolution was with the 13 Colonies
  in America spread to Europe

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Age of Revolution

• Overthrew centuries rules of kings and emperors
• Ended Divine Rule of the King- Kings rule by the
  will of God

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Age of Revolution

• Rule of the people
• Idea that people can rule themselves
• People should have a greater role in gov.
• Philosophers
• John Locke and Jean Rousseau
• Studied the nature of man and gov.
• Old thought People are here to serve the gov.
  (Kings and emperors)
• New thought Gov. is here to serve the people
  (protect their freedoms)