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history midterm
Mrs. Hunter's Global Studies 2 midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Renaissance | Peroid of European history lasting from about 1300 to 1600 during which renewed intrest in classical culture led to far reaching changes in art and learning |
| secular | concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters |
| Patron | Supports the arts financially |
| Perspective | An artistic techniquie that creates the appearance of 3 dimensions on a flat surface |
| Vernacular | Everyday language |
| Humanism | A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements |
| Printing Press | Revolutionary method of printing papers - faster |
| John Knox | Scottish preacher who followed Calvin's ideas (enjoy God's gifts) and started Presbyterian movement |
| Jesuits | Members of society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola |
| Council of Trent | Meeting of Roman Catholic leaders, called by Pope Paul III to rule on doctrince criticized by Protestant Reformers |
| Anglican | Church of England |
| Renaissance Man | A Man during the Renaissance who had many talents - could do it all! |
| Indulgences | Pardons releasing a person from punishments of sin |
| Martin Luther | Made the 95 Thesis which began the reformation & Lutheranism |
| Henry VIII | Didn't like Luther's ideas/wanted son/changed religion and became head of church/killed his wives |
| Devshirme | In the Ottoman Empire, a policy of taking boys from conquered Christina people to be trained as Muslim soldiers |
| Safavid Empire | Member of Shi'a Muslim dynasty that built an empire in Persia int he 16th -18th centuries |
| Suleyman | Great leader who made changes in law and set up devshirme system/Ottoman |
| Jahangir | Welcome foreigners/emperor of India/Nicknamed "Grasper of the World" his wife is the real ruler |
| Aurangzeb | Shah Jahan's 3rd son/Killed his brother |
| Shah Jahan | Killed rivals competing for throne/loved his wife and buildings /built the Taj Mahal |
| Caravel | Ship that can sail against the wind |
| Hongwu | Commanded rebel army and drove out mongols/restored China/then became tyrant and died |
| Prince HEnry | Supported exploration/made exploration sailing school |
| Vasco Da Gama | Explorer- Portugese/East African coast to south west India/brought home riches |
| Bartholomew Diaz | Portugese Explorer whose motives were to serve God and His majesty/to give light to those in darkness and to grow rich as all men desire |
| Christopher Columbus | Spaniard found the Americas searching for India |
| Closed Country Policy | In Japan/ basically they didn't have or want contact with the europeans |
| Zhenghe | HE went to other countries and distributed gifts/sailor |
| Fire arms introduced to Japan | Destroyed shoguns power and samurias |
| Aztec Empire Declies | Cortes killed with the help of other tribes and disease |
| Slavery | ownage of a human |
| New France | Canada to mississippi/ know for fur trade/ low population/ owned by france |
| Joint Stock company | a buisness in which the investors pool their wealth for a common purpose then share their profits |
| Encomienda | Slaves for spanish conquerors they were the natives |
| Absolutism | rule that is unrestrained |
| Glorious Revolution | bloodless overthrow of king james II/ replaced by william and mary |
| Englands govt. Change | idk |
| Edict of Nantes | Henry IV said protestants could live peacefully in france (huguenots) |
| serf | midieval peasant bound to stay on lords land |
| boyars | landowning nobles of russia |
| heleocentric, geocentric theory | the earth and other planets revolve around the sun |
| Scientific Method | n. a logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentationand observation are used to test hypotheses. |
| Philosophes | one of a group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment |
| Declaration of Independance | a statement of the reasons for the American colonies’ break with Britian,approved by the Second Continental Congress in 1776. |
| Ivan the terrible | Russain leader who had good and then bad period killled lots of people including his own son |
| Louis XIV | made france super power and #1 in art and literature, good military leader, but..., was in constant war plus versailles, high taxes, you name it |
| Peter the Great | westerized russia and named St. Petersburg after himself (Swamp city) |
| Karl Marx | inventor of communism |
| Communism | an economic system in which all means of production—land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses—are owned by the people, private property doesnot exist, and all goods and services are shared equally. |
| Laissez Faire | the idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries and businesses |
| Bill of rights | first ten ammendmants of contstitution protects the basic rights for france #1 no suspending for parliment, #2 no taxes without parliments consent #3 no penalty for petioning the king about grievances |
| neoclassical Style | utopia, realisic, bright, secular |
| Scientific Revolution | a major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the studyof the natural world began to be characterized by carefulobservation and the questioning of accepted beliefs. |
| Scientific Revlution inventors | Bacon-scientific method Galileo- heliocentric theoryKepler- laws of planetary motionJanssen-microscopeCopernicus- heliocentric theoryNewton-gravityleewonhok, boyle, fareheit.. |
| nationalism | loyalty to country |
| liberals, conservatives, radicals | middleclass men wanted to give power to elected parlaments/ weathly wanted to preserve the monarchy/ those who favored democracy |
| Romantisism | 19th century idea valued emotion over reason |
| impressionism | non-realistic veiw in art (impression based) |
| industrial revolution | 18th century england started using machines rather than humans |
| Urbanization | growth of cities with people migrating to them |
| stock | buying and sharing part of a company |
| Capitalism | business based on private ownership and investment of money on buisness ventures to make money |
| socailism | an economic system in which the factors ofproduction are owned by the public and operate for thewelfare of all |
| Restoration | the period ofCharles II’s rule over England, after the collapse of OliverCromwell’s government. |
| Adam Smith | three laws:law of self intrest, law of supply and demand, law of compitition |
| Louis XVI | horrible ruler of France bastile, ran away, hung |
| Napoleon | crowned himself emperor, sold lousiana purchase, improved france, spread land but eventually lost |
| reign of terror | the period, from mid-1793 tomid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled Francenearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures andordinary citizens were executed. |
| French revolution | time in which french government underwent much change |
| french estates | 1st clergy, 2nd nobles, 98% in common third (everyone else) |
| Latin independence movement | latin american countries gained independance |
| Agricultural revolution | time of agricultural growth, crop rotation and new ways to grow things/ plow (I believe this is right im not sure sry.) |
| catherine the great | russain, wanted religous freedoms, no torture, however didnt help serfs/ she also expanded the country |
| Phillip II of Spain | shy and religious, disliked protestants and attacked elizebeth I but lost |
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