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Semester Final for Mrs.Shaw

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Neoplatonism   Platonic philisophy traslated by Ficino  
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War of Roses   Civil war b/w ducal houses: Lancaster(red rose)and York(white rose)  
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Medici in Florence   Increase in banking(15th century) by the Medici family  
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Printing   Movable type invented by Johannes Gutenberg  
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Black Death   1347-1351 crop failure, 15% of people died from famine. Bulges turn black  
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Estates   First:Clergy Second:Nobility Third:Peasants  
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Hermeticism/Pantheism   Translation of Corpus Hermeticum(sci and ph)/ divinity in all aspects of nature  
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Francesco Guicciardini   P backround helped him write history through P and military emphasis  
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Johannes Gutenberg   Inventor of movable type  
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New Monarchies   France, England, Spain at 15th century with centralized power  
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Syclif and Lollardy   John Wyclif hated clerical corruption, followeres were Lollardians  
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Hus and Hussites   John Hus also attacked clergy, burned at the stake, started Hussite wars  
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Sacrosanta and Frequens   Church received authority from God and holding of councils to ensure reform  
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Nepotism   Families serve in clergy for increase of power in church  
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Sack of Rome   1527 under HRE Charles V  
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Fall of Constantinople   1204 Byzantine power overthrown by Ottoman Turks  
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Entrepreneurs   Rulers who transfered titles to underground minerals to financiers as collateral for loans  
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Northern Humanism   focused on early manuscripts, sought to reform church last half of 15th century  
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Thomas More   Christian humanist and Lord Chancellor of England, wrote Utopia and gave life to King Henry VIII  
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Pluralism   High church officials taking over more than 1 office  
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Zwinglian Reformation   Ulrich Zwingli brought reform to Switzerland,Zurich; music, clergy, and pope eliminated  
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Charles V-Hapsburg   HRE tried to keep territory and christianity, abdicated in 1556  
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Anabaptists   Radical reformers, mostly peasants affected by E, no one should be forced to accept bible  
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St.Bartholomew's Day Massacre   1572 Bourbons were killed in Paris by Charles IX(persuaded by Guise family and Catherine de Midici), Henry of Navarre survived  
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Philip II   King of Spain and HRE lost Netherlands and Spanish armada lost to Queen Elizabeth  
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Queen Elizabeth   Killed Queen Mary, Act of Uniformity(church service), weakened France and Spain, supressed puratins and avoided war  
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Absenteeism   Church officeholders ignored duties ahdn hired underlings not qualified  
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Transubstantiation   Bread and wine transform to the body and blood of Jesus  
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Schmalkaldic League   8 princes and 11 imperial cities(lutheran) formed to defend themselves from Charles V  
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Schmalkaldic Wars   1546-1559, lutherans defeated at Battle of Muhlberg; Henry II+protistants defeated Charles, PEACE OF AUGSBURG  
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Habsburg-Valois Wars   War against Valois king of France, Francis I; 2 wars b/w 1521-1544  
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War of 3 Henries   Henry duke of Guise vs. Henry III vs. Henry of Navarre 1588-1589 Henry of Navarre took the throne and turned Catholic  
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Puratins   Protistants w/in the Anglican church inspired to Calvinism to remove any trace of Catholicism from the curch of England  
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Price Revolution   Prices increased in Europe, commercial and industrial entrepreneurs benefited, growth of capitalism  
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Bartholomeu Dias   1488 South Atlantic to Cape of Good Hope  
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Vasco da Gama   Reached East coast of Africa and set port of Calicut in India  
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Afonso de Albuquerque   Set port at Goa(headquarters of Portuguese trade in India)  
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Conquistador   Authorized by Castilian crown and financed privately, groups sent to conquer foreign lands  
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Middle Passage   Journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas  
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Witchcraft Craze   Village cult viewed as activities of the devil by M/E church, persecution increased in 17th century in protistant regions  
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Constitutional Monarchy   Constitution shares power w/ nobles or parliament giving head of state limited power, Instrument of Gov. in England by Cromwell and Bill of Rights in the Glorious Revolution  
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Mannerism and Baroque Art   Mannerist painters distorted proportion and conveyed strong emotions(El Greco); Baroque used dramatic effects to heighten emotional intensity(Peter Paul Rubens)  
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Cardinal Richelieu/Mazarin   Chief ministers that crushed conspiracies, executed royal authority, increase monarchial power and dept in France  
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Russian Serfdom   Tsar on top followed by upper class of landed aristocrats who bound their peasants to land  
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Orthodox Church   Merchants and peasants and schism revolted the Orthodox church  
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Vienna/Ottoman Empire   the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Suleiman I the Magnificent with an effective gov. that expanded to the west, Vienna resisted  
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Janissaries   Christian boys taken from parents, converted to Muslim, and subjected to rigid military training; 8,000 troops loyal to sultan  
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House of Orange   Part of Dutch Rep. occupied the stadholderate in 7 provinces and favored centralized gov. w/ themselves as hereditary monarchs  
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Amsterdam   Financial and commercial capital of Europe w/ an increased population in 1610, founded Amsterdam Stock Exchange in commodities  
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James II   Catholic brother of Charles II who came to power in 1685 after English Civil War, protistant daughter Mary and William of Orange overthrew him  
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Bourbons   Calvanist dynasty fought France and Spain w/ England, United Provinces, Habsburg Austria, and German States(PEACE OF UTRECHT 1713 and OF RASTATT 1714)  
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Charles I/II   Charles I fought Cromwell in the English Civil War, Charles II reestablished the monarchy after Cromwell's death  
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Scientific Method   Bacon's empiricism + Descartes' rationalism: systematic observations and experiments  
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Antoine Lavoisier   Invented system of naming elements, founder of chemistry  
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Newton   Invented scientific method, 3 laws of gravity, and president of Royal Society  
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Renaissance Magic   Hermetic magic w/ alchemical thought, world was a living embodiment of divinity  
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Brahe   Danish noble man made record of his observations of the stars and planets, imperial mathmatician to Emperor Rudolf II  
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Kepler   3 laws of planetary motion, eliminated idea of crystalline spheres revolving in circular orbits  
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Galileo   First to observe heavens w/ telescope: mountains and craters on moon, 4 moons of Jupiter, phases of Venus, and sunspots  
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Skepticism   Fontenelle, downplaying the R backgrounds of the 17c, church is enemy of scientific progress  
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Joseph II   New policy toward Jews, litte more freedom  
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High cult vs. Popular cult   High education and more literacy in high class; S activities and life of people, festivals  
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Edward Gibson   Author wrote "decline and fall of Roman Empire"  
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Immanuel Kant   German philosophe defined the Enlightenment as "man's leaving his self-caused immaturity"  
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David Hume   Pioneer of S science, used observation and reflection  
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Physiocrats   Founders of modern discipline of E, natural E laws that governed S  
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Francois Quesney   Leader of physiocrats, land constituted only source of wealth  
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Denis Diderot   Writer who complained of R and attacked Christianity viciously  
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Paul d' Holbach   Antheism and materialism, believed in classes  
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Marie-Jean de Condorcet   French philosophe claim for forgiveness, The Progress of the Human Mind  
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Jean Jacques Rousseau   Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality of Mankind, most critical philosophe  
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S Contract   Rousseau, harmonize liberty w/ gov. authority  
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Feminism   Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman, women rights in enlightenment  
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General Directory   Frederick I, chief administrative agent of central gov.; supervised millitary, E, police, financial affairs  
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Reason of State   Joseph II, tried to put enlightenment ideas in the Habsburg state  
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Edict of Nantes   1598 Catholicism offficial R of France but guaranteed Huguenots right to worship and allowed fortified towns  
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Administration of Spanish Empire   Administrative system based on Viceroy advised by Audiencias; catholic Spain was given extensive R power in the new world  
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Columbia Exchange   Import/Export trade b/w Europe and the Americas  
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Viceroy   King's chief civil and military officer, aided by audiencias; Viceroy of Lima  
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Audiencias   Advisory groups that helped viceroys and were supreme judicial bodies  
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Encomienda   Queen Izabella, permitted Spaniards to collect tribute from natives and used them as laborers; Indians were protected, given wages,and their spiritual needs were supervised  
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Joint-Stock Company   People bought shares in a company and received dividens on their investment while a board of directors ran the company  
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Commercial Capitalism   Commercial expansion mostly in Mediterranian, Low Countries, and Baltic region; Dutch ruled European and world trade  
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Mercantilism   Historian name for E tendencies that dominate E practices in 17c  
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Balance of Power   Richelieu eliminated P and military rights of Huguenots and preserved R ones  
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Golden Age Dutch Rep   Power struggle b/w Orange and rep, E prosper, Amsterdam became European trading city; United Provinces-Atlantic power  
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Gustavus Adolphus   Swedish king(30 Years' War) military genus got to Germany and died at Battle of Lutzen against Wallenstein  
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Bishop Jacques Bossuet   Chief theorists of divine-right mon.; P Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture  
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Edict of Fontainebleau   1685 Louis XIV, destruction of Huguenot churches and closing of Protestant schools  
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Versailles   Residence of the king, reception hall for state affairs, office building for members of king's gov, home of royal officials and aristocratic courtiers  
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Jean-Baptise Colbert   Controller general of finances for Louis XIV; increase wealth and power of France through general adherence to mercantilism; gov regulation of E activities  
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Peace of Utrecht   War of Spanish Succession, United Provinces fought to prevent a Bourbon dynasty from taking over Europe(Louis XIV); throne of Spain and France were to remain seperate  
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Treaty of Karlowitz   Ottomans made siege to Vienna and Austrians defeated the Ottomans; Austria took over Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, and Slovenia  
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Romanovs   Aristocratic dynasty started by Michael Romanov 1613-1917  
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Hohenzollerns   Prussia dynasty started in Brandenburg 1415; Fredericks brought it to greatness  
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Saint Petersburg   S gatherigs 3 times a week were held here during Peter the Great's rule  
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Great Norther War   Peter the Great vs Charles XII(Sweden), defeated Charles at Battle of Poltava; Peace of Nystadt, Peter gained Estonia, Livonia, and Karelia  
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Poland's Sejm   Polish diet, 2-chamber assembly where landowners dominated townspeople and lawyers; mon shared power with Sejm  
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Stuarts   Dynasty that took over after Tudors(Queen Elizabeth), King James I of Enland, Charles II(son) lost England to Cromwell  
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Levellers   Had ideas of freedom of speech, R toleration, and democratic rep; called for annual Parliaments, women equality, and care for the poor; Cromwell smashed them by force  
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Test Act   Catholics couldn't have positions in gov, military, navy, or universities in England  
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Peace of Pyrenees   1659, War of Spanish Succession, France gained the Spanish Netherlands and Arois  
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Intendants   Royal officers sent by Richelieu to execute orders of the central gov  
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War of League of Augsburg   1689-1697, Spain, HRE, United Provinces, Sweden, and England vs Louis XIV Treaty of Ryswick allowed him to keep Strasbourg and part of Alsace  
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War of Spanish Succession   1702-1713 England, United Provinces, Hasburg Austria, German Staes vs France and Spain to stop Bourbon dynasty; treaty of Utrecht and of Rastatt  
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Philip III/IV   Philip III spent a fortune on his court and allowed Lerma to run the country; Philip IV advisor, Gaspar de Guzman did alot to help but war deprived Spain  
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Boyars   Russian nobility  
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Procurator   Layman that's head of Holy Synod who represented the interests of the tsar and assured Peter of effective domination of the church  
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Gentry   Well-to-do landowners below the nobility  
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Descartes   Made theory on the doubt that seperated mind from matter, father of rationalism  
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World Machine   Conceived as operating absolutely in time, space, and motion  
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Pracelsus   Philippus Aureolus von Hoheheim hoped to change medicine with chem ph(macrocosm-microcosm analogy), chem reactions of the universe are in humans  
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Vesalius   On Anatomical Procedures, anatomy with hands on dissection, found blood vessels originated from the heart  
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William Harvey   On the Motion of the Heart and Blood, based on obs and experiments, heart was center of circulation and blood makes circut as it passes through the body  
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Cartesian Dualism   duality b/w mind and body by Descartes  
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Empiricism   Part of sci method, inductive principles, carefully organized experiments and thorough, systematic observations  
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Spinoza   Philosophe believed in pantheism or monism; Ethics Demonstrated in the Geometrical Manner; tried to rationalize God, humans,and their actions/emotions  
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Pascal   French sci tried to keep sci and R unified,Pensees: tried to convert rationalists to Christianity through reason and emotions  
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Spinoza   Philosophe believed in pantheism or monism; Ethics Demonstrated in the Geometrical Manner; tried to rationalize God, humans,and their actions/emotions  
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Pascal   French sci tried to keep sci and R unified,Pensees: tried to convert rationalists to Christianity through reason and emotions  
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Pietism   Movement in Germany lead by Zinzendorf and Moravian Brethren to foster a personal and deeper devotion of God  
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Spirit of the Laws   Montesquieu's work, 1748, treatise was comparative study of govs to apply the sci method to the S and P to ascertain the "natural laws" governing the S relationships of humans  
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Cult Relativism   European intellectuals began to evaluate their civ relative to others, practice of reason  
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Cosmopolition   Sophisticated and international, enlightenment movement  
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Separation of Powers   Doctrine enunciated by Montesquieu in the 18c that separates executive, legislative, and judicial powers; England  
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E Liberalism   Physiocrats and Adam Smith laid foundation of E liberty; gov doesn't interfere with an individual's E  
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Romanticism   movement in 19c, emphasis on heart and sentiment  
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Rococo   Style that stressed majesty, power,grace, and gentle action; rejected geometrical patterns  
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Neoclassicism   Style that recaptures dignity and simplicity of the classical style of ancient Greece, Jacques-Louis David: Oath of the Horatii  
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Progroms   Jewish communities were looted and massacred  
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Wsley   Anglican Minister, had mystical experience and became missionary of English people  
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Louis XV   Weak and lazy king of France, Madame de Pompadour influenced gov decisions  
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King George   Hanoverian dynasty after death okf Queen Anne(Stuart), relied on Robert Walpole since he could not speak English  
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William Pitt   Spokesman became prime minister acquired Canada and India in 7 Years' War  
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Pragmatic Sanction   Different European powers agreed to recognize Charles VI's daughter, Maria Theresa as his legal heir  
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Primogeniture   Practice of treating the first son as the favorit  
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Jethro Tull   Discovered that using a hoe to keep the soil loose allowed air and moisture to reach plants and enabled them to grow better  
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Water Frame   Invented by Richard Arkwright; powered by horse aor water, turned out yarn faster than cottage spinning wheels  
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Tithes   Portion of harvest or income paid by peasants to church  
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