Important terms to note for MC:
The Late Middle Ages, Fourteenth Century—quick review this section, but needed more for causes towards later ideas/events like the Renaissance….
War and Political Instability
Hundred Years War
Battle of Agincourt
Joan of Arc
Condottieri
The Decline of the Church
Pope Boniface VIII and King Phillip IV of France
Unam Sanctum (Papal Bull)
The Great Schism of 1377
Conciliarism
Council of Constance 1414-1418
Purgatory
Mysticism and Lay Piety
Meister Eckhart
Catherine of Siena
William of Occam
The Cultural World of the Fourteenth Century
Vernacular Literature
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies
The Renaissance
Meaning and Characteristics of Italian Renaissance
Jacob Burckhardt: The Civilization of Italy in the Renaissance
Social Changes in the Renaissance
Book of the Courtier, Baldessare Castilglione
Leon Battista Alberti: On the Family
The Italian States of the Renaissance
Lorenzo di Medici (the Magnificent)
Isabella d’Este
Machiavelli: The Prince
Cesare Borgia
The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy
Petrarch Ascent of MountVentoux
Leonardo Bruni
Civic humanism
Lorenzo Valla, the Elegances of the Latin Language
Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man
Johannes Gutenberg
Renaissance Artists
1377-1446: Brunelleschi, architect-interior of San Lorenzo
1386-1466: Donatello, sculptor David
c.1390-1441: Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride
1401-1428: Massacio frescoes in Brancacci Chapel
1445-1510: Botticelli, Primavera, Birth of Venus
1452-1519: Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, Mona Lisa
1471-1528: Albrecht Durer, Adoration of the Magi
1475-1564: Michelangelo, David, ceiling of Sistine Chapel
1483-1520: Raphael, School of Athens
Golden Bull
The EuropeanState in the Renaissance
‘new monarchies’
Wars of the Roses
Henry VII (Tudor)
Court of Star Chamber
Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon
Habsburgs
Ottoman Turks and fall of Constantinople (1453)
The Church in the Renaissance
John Huss
Pope Julius II
Pope Leo X
Prelude to Reformation: The Northern Renaissance
Christian humanism
Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly; Handbook of a Christian Knight
Thomas More, Utopia
Prelude to Reformation: Church and Religion on the Eve of the
Reformation
Indulgences
Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Justification by faith
Johann Tetzel
Ninety-five theses
Charles V(Habsburg Emperor of the HRE 1519-1556)
Peasants’ War
Priesthood of all believers
Germany and the Reformation: Religion and Politics
Suleiman the Magnificent
Peace of Augsburg 1555
The Spread of the Protestant Reformation
Ulrich Zwingli
The Marburg Colloquy
Anabaptists
Henry VIII
Mary Tudor
John Calvin
Predestination
The Catholic Reformation
Ignatius of Loyola
Society of Jesus
Council of Trent
Ursulines
St. Teresa of Avila
Politics of Wars of Religion in the Sixteenth Century
France
Huguenots
Henri IV
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Edict of Nantes
Spain
Phillip II
Spanish Armada, the Enterprise of England
England
Elizabeth Tudor (Elizabeth I)
Mary, Queen of Scots
Elizabeth’s 1601: Golden Speech
Age of Discovery and Expansion
Hernan Cortes
Bartolome de las Casas, The Tears of the Indians
Lateen sails and square rigs
Compass and astrolabe
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartholomew Diaz
Vasco da Gama
Alfonso de Albuquerque
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Francisco Pizarro
The encomienda system
The African Slave Trade
“price revolution”
Jacob Fugger
Bank of Amsterdam
Define mercantilism
The Columbian Exchange
StateBuilding and the Search for Order in the 17th Century
Witch hunts
The Thirty Years War
Wallenstein and Tilly (Generals on the Imperial/Catholic side)
Gustavus Adolphus (Swedish king; Protestant General)
Jakob von Grimmelshausen, author of Simplicissimus
Military revolution
Jean Bodin
Bishop Bossuet
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Mazarin
The Fronde
Nobles of the robe and nobles of the sword
Louis XIV
Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon
War of the League of Augsburg and the War of Spanish Succession
Edict of Fontainebleu
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Le Tellier the marquis de Louvois
Battle of Blenheim 1704
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
Spain: What were the principal reasons for the decline of Spain in this period?
Philip II and Philip IV
Absolutism in Central, Eastern and Northern Europe
The German States
Frederick William the Great Elector (1640-1705)
Junkers
Leopold I (1658-1705)
Treaty of Karlowitz
Peter the Great and Russia
Serfdom
Old Believers
Duma
Peter the Great (1698-1725)
Table of Ranks
Holy Synod
“open the window to the west”
Great Northern War
Peace of Nystadt 1721
Boyars
Ottoman Government
Millets
Dhimmis
Dvshirme
Ulama
The end of Ottoman Expansion (page 449)-what accounted for this halt in expansion?
Scientific Revolution
Geocentrism
Heliocentrism
Nicholaus Copernicus
Mechanism
Empiricism
Issac Newton
Deism
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
Andreas Vesalius
Academies
Enlightenment
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Blaise Pascal
End of witch-hunts
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tabula rasa
Print culture
Philosophes
Immanuel Kant
Deism
Voltaire
Islam and Enlightenment
Denis Diderot
Cesare Beccaria
Physiocrats
Baron de Montesquieu
Adam Smith
Francois Quesnay
David Hume
Baron d’Holbach
Enlightened Absolutism
Frederick the Great of Prussia
Joseph II of Austria
Maria Theresa
Catherine the Great
Old Regime-18th century
aristocracy
aristocratic resurgence
treatment of peasants: French, Russia, Ottoman Empire
Pugachev’s Rebellion
English Game Laws
Consumer Revolution
New leisure venues: coffee houses, taverns, theaters and opera houses
Agricultural Revolution
Jethro Tull
Charles Townsend
Robert Bakewell
Enclosures
Industrial Revolution
Why does the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?
First and second
Textile
Spinning jenny
Water frame
James Watt
Urbanization
Ghetto
Transatlantic Economy
Mercantilism
Peninsulares
Creoles
Slave trade
Mid-18th century wars
War of Jenkins Ear
Maria Teresa
Pragmatic Sanction
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
The Seven Years’ War
Frederick II
William Pitt
American Revolution
The French Revolution
3 estates
Jacques Necker
Louis XVI
Parlements
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
National Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
Bastille
The Great Fear
The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
March on Versailles
Assignats
Émigrés
Declaration of Pillnitz
Jacobins
National Constituent Assembly
Girondists
The September Massacres
Convention
Sans-culottes
Edmund Burke
Reign of Terror
Committee of Public Safety
Levee en masse
Maximilien Robespierre
De-Christianization
The Thermidorean Reaction
Napoleon Bonaparte
Consulate
Coup d’etat
Concordat with the church
The Napoleonic Code
Treaty of Tilsit
The Continental System
Invasion of Russia
Congress of Vienna
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