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This is our timeline of our events. As you can see, the late 1400’s and early
1500’s are where many of our events occurred including, Columbus, the painting of the
Sistine Chapel, the discovery of the Americas, and many more events.
Our first question is:
The Dutch were one of the northern European trading empires, and made lot of
money off of spices and other things in the Indies. They did have a few colonies in the
Americas, but lost most of them to Britain and other empires.
The British Empire was the largest empire ever established. They gained a lot
territory in the New World from the French and Indian War, but then lost some after the
13 colonies established themselves as a country. There is a saying that the sun never set
on the British Empire. They had territories all over the world, including all of Canada,
India, and Australia at one time or another/
The French and Indian War was fought from 1754 to 1763. This was one of the
causes of the Revolutionary War.
The French Empire did not get along with Britain and fought them countless
times. Because of this they lost all of their colonies in the New World except for some
small islands.
Most of these empires focused on colonies in the Indies or in the Northern part of
North America. They made colonies more about trade, commerce and money than
converting people to Christianity.
The Spanish and Portuguese empires combined had most of South America and
had very similar languages. They did not have many colonies in the Indies though.
They were much crueler to the natives and conquered them then converted them
to Christianity. They had to either convert, or die.
Our second question is:
Athenian democracy helped develop the modern political system in Europe
because it was the first democracy.
The middle Ages were ruled by monarchy and the feudal system.
Each king ruled a portion of land. He divided it among his nobles, who divided it
among their knights, who then had the peasants work and farm it.
Things such as the French revolution brought a change in government and made it
closer to democracy.
Renaissance reemphasized old ideas and started to use them.
Now in most countries in Europe, the prime minister is the head of the
government and the monarch is just a public figure.
Our third question is:
The printing press encouraged people to write in vernacular languages (languages
other than Greek and Latin) it also encouraged literacy and caused people to change their
views on religion because they interpreted the Bible themselves instead of a priest doing
it for them.
The Chinese were much more about how the writing looked and considered it an
art called Calligraphy.
European Art became more realistic and more about religion, because people
could interpret religion themselves.
The Chinese art was similar to earlier periods, but they used different materials
such as lacquer and porcelain and became more creative with those materials.
The architecture in Europe focused on symmetry, proportion, and geometry.
They also looked at classical architecture and tried to use that to build new buildings.
The Chinese had little wood, so they glued pieces of timber together to create
large columns to support the pagoda roofs.
Humanities in Europe became something to study instead of something to do.
In china the government at this time did not want the culture to spread and did not
allow people to travel in and out of China. They had coast guard boats to make sure no
one came in or out.
33. Martin Luther's spiritual predecessors included men such as
John Wycliffe and Jan Hus, who had attempted to reform the church along similar
lines but failed. In Wittenberg, Saxony (in present-day Germany). There Martin
Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of the All Saints' Church, which
was a notice board for university-related announcements. The most well known
churches that came directly from the protestant Reformation were the Lutherans,
the Reformed/Calvinists/ Presbyterians, and the Anabaptists.
The Counter Reformation is also known as the catholic reformation, and
has 5 major parts:
Doctrine
2. Ecclesiastical or structural reconfiguration
3. Religious orders
4. Spiritual movements
5. Political dimensions
Neo-Confucianism is a form of Confucianism that was developed during time of
the Song Dynasty, but can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. It was an idea that
attempted to merge certain ideas from Confucian, Daoism, and Buddhist religions.
One of the most important of the early Neo-Confucians was Zhu Xi (1130-1200),
who wrote a book called Family rituals where he provided detailed advice on how
to conduct weddings, funerals, family ceremonies, and the veneration of
ancestors. He also believed that it was important to practical affairs that one
should engage in both academic and philosophical pursuits, although his writings
are concentrated more on issues of theoretical significance. He wrote lots of
essays attempting to explain how his ideas were not Buddhist or Taoist, and
included some denunciations of Buddhism and Taoism.
34. The Scientific revolution had many new ideas on how to invent things, the
scientific method was thought of as a way to test new ideas. As a result, the
scientific revolution is commonly viewed as a foundation and origin of modern
science.
35. Some significant ideas of the enlightenment were governmental
consolidation, centralization, and primacy of the nation-state. Centralization is the
process where the activities of an organization become concentrated within a
certain location and/or group or a group that is like a leader to a bigger group.
Primacy of the nation-state is where a certain state or place comes above all the
others, like the capital of a country or nation. No one knows when the start of the
age of Enlightenment was, and some scholars simply use the beginning of the
eighteenth century or the middle of the seventeenth century as a default date.
Some scholars use the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1804–15) as a
convenient point in time with which to date the end of the Enlightenment. Others
describe the Enlightenment beginning in Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688
and ending in the French Revolution of 1789. Others say that the Enlightenment
ended with the death of Voltaire in 1778.