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History Sem 2-Europe
All Eras
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What happened in he enlightenment period in Europe? | People started to study human behavior and absolute monarchies and believed people had natural rights, life, liberty and property |
| What is a protestant? | A person who was protesting certain practices of Catholic church wanted reforms to faith and practice |
| Who is Martin Luther? | A german monk who believed the church was corrupt, pope was immoral, nailed 95 theses (complaints), was excommunicated and started Lutheran Church |
| Protestants do: | Not follow the Pope, or catholic church, believe the bible is the foundation to faith, believe in personalized faith, don't follow all the sacrements, and believe can save your soul. |
| Absolutism: | the belief that monarchs had unlimites power given to them by God at birth, people had few freedoms; gave kings/queens excuse to do whatever they wanted for their own glory |
| Louis 14: | King of France for 72 years, taxed heavily, built huge palace of Versialles for his own huge house, used tax $$ for his own money, fought wars to make himself more powerful, people could do little to limit the power. |
| Exploration: | Looked for new routes, resources, markets. |
| Christopher Columbus: | Spanish explorer who sailed to America's and helped colonize them. |
| Colonization: | the process of turning foreign lands into claimed territories so Europeans could get new resources and lands for settlement |
| Renaissance: | means 'rebirth' a time period after the middle ages where people wanted a renewalof classical (Greece and Rome)art, sculptures, literature, thinking |
| Medieval: | means middle ages, was time period between fall of Rome and the Renassiance- no major countries, lawlessness, church is political |
| Feudalism: | Political/Social systems of medieval Europe, peasants (serfs), for lords, knights protected them |
| Serfs: | peasants bound to the land, poor, worked whole lives on farms owned by a lord or in a specific guild in a town |
| Christian Church: | most powerful organization/political force, lives of farms owned by a lord lord or in a political force in Europe; Pope ws most powerful person |
| Black Death: | bubonic plague, a diesese that would kill 1/3 of Europeans, would get big black boils on skin, ended medieval era |
| Greece: | divided into more than 100 city states, which acted like counties, Sparta and Athens are well known, Athens was birth place of democracy |
| Alexander the Great: | spread ideas or Greece to middle East, north africa, india, created an empire- collection of lands ruled by a single person. |
| Rome Republic: | a democracy on italian peninsula, elected its leaders, got ideas from Greece, Ended when Julius Caesar took over as a dictator then assassinated |
| Roman Empire: | developed when Caesar Augustus took over, grew too big, corrupt, fell in 476 AD, |
| Christianity: | a religion founded by Jesus, in Palestine during Roman Empire, monotheistic evolved from Judaism Jesus: was executed it spread secretly. |
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