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TIME PERIODS FOR EUROPEAN HISTORY
MIDDLE AGES: 500-1400 Midieval Art
Feudalism
Development of national monarchs
1
Secularization
Power struggles between church and monarch
Crusades
RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION: 1400-1550
Renaissance Art
Rebirth of learning leads to questions about church practices and
doctrine, science, and philosophy
2
Art flourishes in Italy and Science flourishes in the N. Renaissance
Corruption and worldliness of Christian (catholic) church leads to
development of the Protestant churches
Reformation is political and economic as well as religious
EXPLORATION, COLONIZATION, ECONOMIC RENEWAL AND RELIGIOUS
WARS: 1490-1650
Late Renaissance & Early Baroque Art
Exploration is fueled by the Renaissance as nations hustle to
achieve new trade routes
3
Colonization and mercantilism lead to economic stability
Series of wars that would firmly establish religious lines in Europe
Domestic System
AGE OF ABSOLUTISM: 1450-1750 Baroque & Rococo Art
Spain's Century of Gold
English Civil War - Leads to a balance of power
Establishment of absolutism in France (Henry IV through Louis XV)
4
Development of E. European Empires (Prussia, Austria, Russia)
Global Economy - Mercantilism
Balance of Power theory developed and employed against Louis XIV
AGE OF SCIENCE: 1600-1700 Baroque Art
Continuance of secularization due to new scientific thought (Bacon,
Descartes, Galileo, Newton, Spinoza)
5
Political theory moves in two directions both governed by contracts
between society and government (Locke, Hobbes)
AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: 1700 - 1800 Rococo, Neoclassical, Romantic Art
Philosophes (Diderot, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau) spread the
new ideas of the Enlightenment (Natural rights, equality,
toleration, freedom of thought, progress, and constitutions)
6
American revolution puts the ideas of the enlightenment into practice
French Revolution and its impact on Feudal Europe
Enlightened Despotism
Industrialization: Factory system, Laissez Faire
AGE OF NAPOLEON: 1804-1814 Neoclassical & Romantic Art
Internationalism of Europe
7
Napoleonic reforms
Rise of Nationalism
AGE OF REVOLUTION: 1814-1870 Neoclassical, Romantic, Realism Art
Congress of Vienna attempts to maintain conservative forces
against rising liberalism an nationalism
8
Nationalist desires - revolts - failures and successes
Spread of industrialization
Advent of Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, and Realism
Germany and Italy established
AGE OF EUROPEAN SUPREMACY: 1860-1914 Impressionism, Post
Impressionism, Symbolism, Early Modern Art
Imperialism in Africa and Asia
9
Economic nationalism invades the world economy
Advance of Democracy and the Welfare State
Queen Victoria: "The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire"
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: 1914-1919 Early Modern
Impact of nationalism and alliances
10 Impact of a World War
First Marxist revolution takes place - consequences
Development of Communism - U.S.S.R. established
WORLD DEPRESSION: 1920-1938 Early Modern Art
Rise of Democracies in new E. European States
Economic nationalism - End of the Gold Standard
11 Deficit Spending (Keynsian theory) vs. Retrenchment
Rise of Totalitarian Gov'ts (Hitler (Fascism) , Mussolini (Fascism) , Japan)
WORLD WAR II AND THE EARLY COLD WAR: 1939-1950 Late Modern
World War II
12 Cold War Deepens
Iron curtain descends - NATO vs. Warsaw Pact
United Nations is established (collective security)
AGE OF CONFRONTATION AND DETENTE: 1950-1980 Late Modern Art
End of empires
Crisis in the Middle East
13 Confrontation (Korea - Vietnam)
Nuclear Age
Arms and Space Race
THE CHANGING WORLD: 1980-Present Contemporary Art
End of the Cold War - Collapse of Communism in U.S.S.R. and E. Europe
14 Persian Gulf War
Computer age