Question | Answer |
What ultimately ended the Fronde in France in the 1650s? | The nobles were not unified in their attack against royal strongholds |
What were causes of the plagues that swept through Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? | Poor sanitation, overcrowding in cities, no understanding of disease, and rats carried fleas infected with the Bubonic Plague |
What happened in towns and cities as a result of the constant crop failures during the seventeenth century? | Rising food prices created hardship for poor and middling folk |
What event ended the English Civil War? | The trial and execution of King Charles I in 1649 |
What was the significance of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648? | It recognized that different religions could coexist within the Empire |
What were two effect of the Thirty Years' War? | German states remained fragmented for over two hundred years and the population of Central Europe was decimated |
Why did King Louis XIV revoke the Edict of Nantes? | He wanted to further demonstrate his absolute authority by enforcing Catholicism for all of France |
How can you combine study stack cards from other people? | When you get to the study stack page choose the edit icon. |
Where does most of our information concerning how old people lived and at what age they got married came from? | Church documents |
In medieval times what was the most common explanation for natural disasters or events? | God's intervention because of a person's bad deeds. |
Were did people most commonly look for answers to questions about their daily lives? | The bible, Scholastic theology and the Ancients, is where people searched for answers. |
What is heliocentric? | The sun is positioned in the center of the universe. |
How did Francis Bacon change how we view the scientific world? | He described a method of systematically discovering information about the world. He also helped science become respectable and worth peoples time. |
What is tabula rasa? | Tabula rasa is the idea that people are born as blank slates and are molded by their experiences. |
How did tabula rasa effect peoples' world view? | This questioned the idea that all people are born evil. Also it showed that parenting and education are important aspects of a persons' live and effect them latter on. It also showed that people born to a higher status were not better than anyone else |
Describe the process of scientific revolution. | People begin to ask questions, discoveries challenge the accepted world view, then someone brings together all the pieces in to a new world view. |