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Patrons
- WHO: wealthy italian families
- WHAT: paid for thinkers and artists
- WHERE: Italy
- WHEN: early Renaissance 1300s
- WHY: get back to roots of Hellensitic culture where education was huge and knowledge and art
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Carolingian Dynasty
- WHO: Frankish and German rulers
- WHAT: series of rulers
- WHERE: France/Germany
- WHEN: 700s AD
- WHY: power struggles between empire and pope
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Humanism
- WHO: Petrarch (father of)
- WHAT: study of nonreligious things
- WHERE: Italy and spread
- WHEN: 1300s
- WHY:reflected a shift in thought that previously had been dominated by
- religious subject matter. Opened up avenues to explore art, literature
- and science for its own sake and to focus more on man than God
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Machiavelli
- WHO: humanist author
- WHAT: wrote The Prince
- WHERE: Italy
- WHEN: 1500
- WHY: state's sole purpose is survival; no divine authority over state
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Da Vinci
graceful humans, spacial relationship, Renaissance
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Reconquista
- Crusades in Spain against Muslims
- 1200s
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Siberia
- 1st Americans came from here
- 25K yrs ago; hunting
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Archaic Indians
more gathering, horticulture, larger groups, gender roles, after ice age
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Horticulture
- science of developing plants
- changes environment
- more control over survival
- after ice age
- men dont hunt as much
- more food > more pop
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Cahokia
- mound-builders city - St Louis
- trade
- 1000 ADish
- huge construction needed organization and leadership and design, specialized labor
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Qin Dynasty
- China
- 500 BC
- Shinhuangfi uses legalism and warfare, rules and harsh punishment based on morals and truth
- built Great Wall keep ppl out
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Confucianism
- 500 BC
- China
- superior/inferior relationships cyclical with kindness
- education
- internal harmony
- popular in urban
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Dao
- "The Way" - underlying energy
- China
- 6th century
- remove from society
- harmony with external
- be individual
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Yellow Turban Revolt
- China
- 185 AD
- peasants revolt, landowners and officials brutally put it down
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Tributary system
- China
- other places pay taxes/gifts to empire
- keeps them loyal and makes empire wealthy
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95 thesis
- 1300s
- why indulgences dont save ppl
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peace of augsburg
- 1500s
- peace between Charles V and his Protestant princes he ruled over; each German province can choose religion > decentralized German politics, no common religion
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Philip II
- Al Great's dad
- 382
- "Great Defender", propaganda, revenge on Persia, murders his way to throne 359Macedonian Phalanx - 14' spearsunites a disunified/disorganized area; aims @ Persia but is assassinated
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Absolutism
- gov run by king
- authority from God, tied to church
- Louis 14th France (1600s)
- sun king, I am the state,
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Social contract theory
- God does not create the state, the ppl do
- 1600s
- Thomas Hobbes works for King in england
- writes book Leviathan: says “life sucks/dangerous/brutal, so ppl need to band together and pick someone to be ruler”
- John Locke writes Two Treaties of Government: ppl band together and give power to king but can also take it away
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Glorious Revolution
- 1688
- opposition to James II; move from absolutism to constitutionalism
- Parliament (British Congress) takes his power away
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