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Ap World History - Summerville High School

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Niccolo Machiavelli   show
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humanism   show
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show cultural and intellectual movement of northern Europe; influenced by earlier Italian Renaissance; centered in France, Low Countries, England, and Germany; featured greater emphasis on religion than the Italian Renaissance.  
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show king of France (r. 1494–1547); one of many monarchs of the Renaissance period who were influential through their patronage of the arts.  
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Johannes Gutenberg   show
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show emerged in the 15th century; involved a later marriage age and a primary emphasis on the nuclear family.  
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show German Catholic monk who initiated the Protestant Reformation; emphasized the primacy of faith for gaining salvation in place of Catholic sacraments; rejected papal authority.  
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show general wave of religious dissent against the Catholic church; formally began with Martin Luther in 1517.  
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show form of Protestantism in England established by Henry VIII.  
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Jean Calvin   show
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show Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation; reformed and revived Catholic doctrine.  
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show Catholic religious order founded during Catholic Reformation; active in politics, education, and missionary work outside of Europe.  
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show 1598 grant of tolerance in France to French Protestants after lengthy civil wars between Catholics and Protestants.  
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show war from 1618 to 1648 between German Protestants and their allies and the Holy Roman emperor and Spain; caused great destruction.  
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Treaty of Westphalia   show
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show conflict from 1640 to 1660; included religious and constitutional issues concerning the powers of the monarchy; ended with restoration of a limited monarchy.  
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proletariat   show
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witchcraft persecution   show
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Scientific Revolution   show
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show Polish monk and astronomer; disproved Hellenistic belief that the sun was at the center of the universe.  
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show resolved basic issues of planetary motion and accomplished important work in optics.  
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show publicized Copernicus’s findings; added own discoveries concerning the laws of gravity and planetary motion; condemned by the Catholic church for his work.  
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show English physician who demonstrated the circular movement of blood in animals and the function of the heart as pump.  
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Francis Bacon   show
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René Descartes   show
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Isaac Newton   show
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show concept of God during the Scientific Revolution; the role of divinity was limited to setting natural laws in motion.  
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show English philosopher who argued that people could learn everything through their senses and reason; argued that the power of government came from the people, not from the divine right of kings; they had the right to overthrow tyrants.  
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show concept of government developed during the rise of the nation-state in western Europe during the 17th century; monarchs held the absolute right to direct their state.  
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show French king who personified absolute monarchy.  
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show English political settlement of 1688 and 1689 that affirmed that parliament had basic sovereignty over the king.  
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show originated in England and Holland in the seventeenth century, with monarchs partially checked by significant legislative powers in parliaments.  
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Frederick the Great   show
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Enlightenment   show
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show established new school of economic thought; argued that governments should avoid regulation of economies in favor of the free play of market forces.  
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Denis Diderot   show
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show Enlightenment English feminist thinker; argued that political rights should be extended to women.  
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show the spread of deep interest in acquiring material goods and services below elite levels, along with a growing economic capacity to afford some of these goods.  
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proto-globalization   show
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