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Midterm: Unit 1
Unit One Midterm Review
| TERM | ID/SIG. |
|---|---|
| Hanseatic League | Alliance of trading guilds that established a trade monopoly |
| Estates | 1. Clergy, 2. Nobility, and 3. Others. |
| Baldassare Castiglione (1478 - 1529) | "The Book of the Courtier" (1528) : Handbook for aristocrats. |
| Francesco Sforza | Became duke of Milan by turngn on his Milanese employers. He devised a tax system that generated a large revenue for the government. |
| Sack of Rome (1527) | HRE raided Rome (A Papal State) which meant that the HRE and Spain won over the Pope. This also ended the Roman Rennaisance. |
| Niccolo Machievelli | "The Prince" : Taught Princes how to rule. |
| Individualism | Dscribes a moral, political, or social outlook that stressed human independence (no religious limitations). |
| Secularism | Idea that certain practices should be seperated from religion. |
| Humanism | Intellectual movement based on the study of classical literary works of Greece and Rome. |
| Pico della Mirandola | "Oration on the Dignity of Man" : Ideas of many different philosphers came together. |
| Petrarch | "Father of Humanism". He created a model for modern Italy. |
| Liberal Studies | Study of history, moral philosophy, rhetoric, grammar and logic, poetry, mathematics, astronomy, and music. |
| Francesco Guicciardini | "Father of Modern History". |
| Giotto | Painter (Florence) : Arena Chapel |
| Botticelli | Painter (Italy) : Primavera |
| Donatello | Painter (Florence) : David |
| Brunelleschi | Painter (Florence) : Church of San Lorenzo |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Painter (Florence) : Last Supper |
| Raphael | Painter : Madonas and Frescoes at the Vatican |
| Michelangelo | Painter : Sistine Chapel |
| Northern Renaissance | Difference in art and centralization of political power. |
| Van Eyck | Painter (N) : Giovanni Arnolini and his Bride |
| New Monarchies | Monarchies that gained more power via centralization of government. |
| Durer | Painter (N) : Mastery of laws of Perspective and Rennaisance Theories of Proportion. |
| Louis XI | (France) : "The Spider King" ; Taille |
| Henry VII | (England) : First Tudor king ; Ended private wars of nobility ; Star Chamber. |
| Isabella and Ferdinand | (Spain) : Unified Spain ; Created royal army ; Made clergy an instrument of royal power. |
| Maxmilian I | (HRE) : Attempted to centralize. |
| John Wyclif | Wanted to translate the Bible into Vernacular and he was disgusted by the Clerical corruption. Created English Lollardly. |
| John Hus | Spread Lollardly. Reform to eliminate the worldiness and corruption of the clergy and the extensive power of the papacy. |
| Great Schism | 3 Popes were elected (split within Church). Ended with the Council of Constance and the election of Pope Martin V. |
| Julius II | "Warrior Pope". |
| Leo X | Great patron of Renaissace culture. |
| Erasmus | Most influencial of all Christian Humanists. |
| Thomas More | "Ethiopia" |
| Fredrick the Wise | Defended Martin Luther. |
| Emperor Charles V | (HRE) Grandson of Isabella |
| Peasants War | Hindrance to Luther. |
| Peace of Augsburg (1555) | Formally acknowledge the division of Christianity and it accepted the right of each German ruler to determine the religion of his subjects. |
| Union of Kalmar | Unified Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under the rule of the king of Denmark. |
| Act of Supremacy (1534) | Gave the king all power, and took all the power away from the Pope. |
| John Knox | Spread Calvinism on Scotland. |
| Society of Jesus | 1. Absolute obedience to the Papacy, 2. Common Education, and 3. Detemination to engage in "conflict for God". |
| Hugenots | French Calvinists |
| Edict of Nantes (1598) | Acknowledged Catholicism as the official religion on France, but it allowed Huguenots to worship in selected places. |
| Duke of Alva | Sent by Philip II to go to the Netherlands with an army to stop the revolt. |
| William of Orange | (Netherlands) Helped in the revolt of Netherlands. |