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what stands for OPVL and what does every word mean
develops criticism and historial awareness. Helps students value quality of source.
- origin: who, when, where and what
- purpose: why and for who was created
- value: conclusion in the 4 variables
- origin (primary, secondary)
- author (official, non-official)
- audience (public, private)
- purpose (direct, indirect) - limitations: define this 3 bias the author (nationality, income, education) context (political, intentions, goals) and source (translations, editions, fragments)
define the 4 variables of Value in a OPVL (origin, author, audience, purpose)
- origin
- primary: was written by a witness or a memory of the event
- secondary: based on primary sources - author
- official: the author is known (legal, hereditary)
- non-official: author just participated or studied event - audience
- public: general audience, open to public
- private: specific audience - purpose
- direct: historical data is obvious
- indirect: reader must read and understand
Absolutism occurred between the 16th and 17th centuries. Since they had a lot of conflicts caused by RELIGIOUS differences they invented absolutism. What is absolutism?
absolute power of a single ruler. Doctrine or belief in which a monarch / dictator holds COMPLETE power over a country.
facts
- ruler can’t be checked by anyone
What’s the divine right of kings?
believe that the power rulers / monarchs received was directly from God and they could only respond to him.
Known as “the Sun King”.
Louis XIV
Ruler of France (absolutist ideology) He saw himself as “source of light”
Had complete control over national / foreign policy, the church and taxes.
Who where the huguenots?
French protestants. Seen as thread to the monarchy and stripped them from political and military rights, churches and closed schools.
What happened after the death of Queen Elizabeth I?
the Tudor dynasty ended and her cousin King James Stuart ascended the throne.
In what did James I believed?
he believed in his divine right as King and started leaving the crown and Parliament out of the picture.
Who where the Puritans?
English protestants. Did not like the king’s deep connections with the church.
When James I dies his son ______ becomes king.
Charles I
FACTS
- he also believed in the divine right of kings.
- In 1628 Parliament passed a _______ which placed limits on the king’s power
- ______ ignored these limitations.
- Puritans are also known as _______
4.
- petition of rights
- Charles I
- Pilgrims
- Cavaliers where
2. Roundheads where
- supporters of the king
2. supporters of parliaments
Who was Oliver Cromwell and what happened after his death
leader of roundheads. After his death his son Charles II restored the monarchy. (this was known as the restoration period) and the begging of the end pf Absolutism.
FACTS
- executed by Charles I.
- declared England a Commonwealth (type of republic) and set up a military dictatorship.
Liberalism and the expansion of the industrial society took place in the 15th and 18th centuries.
What led to the Scientific Revolution?
- middle ages (natural philosophers, scientists)
2. renaissance (humanists and mathematics)
The Scientific Revolution was known by
new contributions in the fields of math, chemistry, astronomy, biology, and physics.
new ways of thinking about everything (existentialist philosophies, politics, sociology economics and religion)
these ideas made it possible to people to base findings through reason rather than dogma
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Theory of Nicholas Copernicus
heliocentric theory: sun at the center and the rest of the planets orbiting it.
after him people believed in the GEOCENTRIC THEORY (ptolemaic system) states that the Earth was the center of the universe.
what did Johannes Kepler discovered
that the motion of the Earth and the rest of the planets was ELLIPTICAL rather than spherical. (the sun at the end of the ellipse)
famous Galileo Galilei what did he invented?
the telescope. Church hated him because of his ideas
What did the next people from the scientific revolution where known for
- Issac Newton
- William Harvey
- Blaise Pascal
- Margaret Cavendish
- Maria Winkelman
- René Descartes
- Francis Bacon
- universal law pf gravitation
- dissecting human bodies (show that the heart was responsible for the circulation pf blood)
- pascal’s law, syringes (any pressure applied to a liquid inside a closed space will transmit that pressure)
- natural philosopher
- discovered a comet
- I think therefore I am (father of modern rationalism)
- created the scientific method and empiricism
The Enlightenment was an 18th century philosophical movement of intellectuals that were influenced by the Scientific Revolution.
FACTS
- used the scientific method to understand life
- reason, natural law, hope and progress were common guiding themes.
What was the role of philosophy and reading?
the role was to change the world. The use of reason and rational criticism were to be applied to everything from religion to politics
English philosopher that had a very pessimistic view of human nature.
Thomas Hobbes
What did the next people from the enlightenment where known for
- John Locke
- Montesquieu
- Voltaire
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Denis Diderot
- Adam Smith
- everyone is born with tabula raza (blank mind) and the natural rights (life, liberty and property) if the gov. fails to protect these rights the people should set up their own government
- separation of powers (executive, legislative and judicial)
- freedom of religion and speech
- social contract (society agrees to be governed by its general will)
- women’s right (1900)
- encyclopedia (weapon of knowledge)
- laissez - faire (modern economics, independent economy) and wealth of nations (army, police and public works)
what is political liberalism
directly influenced by the ideas pf the enlightenment. enlightenment thinkers saw the American revolution as a confirmation of what had been suggested
- bill of rights
- constitution
- federal system Montesquieu
Bill of rights is proposed by
John locke