Unit 3 Roads to Revolution Flashcards
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What are the three criteria for a revolution?
- Upset with the status quo or sees the need for change.
- There needs to be a plan.
- The plan is put into action.
What is a revolution?
A forcible overthrow of a government or a new social order in favor of a new system.
What is a Tragic Necessity
It is a necessary action that has consquences.
It depends on historical prespective.
Some people may see it has a tragic necessity, others might see it as tragic.
What was the Renaissance?
It was a social revolution right after the middle ages. It moved from the idea of everything being about God and Heaven to life on Earth. People’s mindset changed. Trade, education, arts, architecture etc. grew and were more important at the time. It started in Italy. (Upset with orignal status quo)
What is humanism?
It was a veiwpoint that focused more about your life on Earth and enjoying it in contrast to thinking about God and Heaven. (Plan criteria)
What is secularim?
It was a belief that religion shoudn’t be incorperated in everything on a daily bases. (Plan criteria)
What is Individualism?
It is were you veiw yourself as a singular unique person with your own talents. Not a part veiwed as part of a group or community. (Plan criteria)
What is Christan Humanism?
When the Renaissance spread to Northern Europe, it became different. One thing was Christan Humanism which was focused on the history of Christianity and to be a good Christan by focusing on love and simplicty. Will contribute to another revolution call Prostant Reformation.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
He was an artist in the Renaissance with a variety of talents (engeerning, music, anatomy etc.). He was known as the Renaissance man. (He helped put the plan into action)
What were Indulgences?
They were these tickets that were sold by the Christan Church. They said that if you buy one of these your sin would be forgiven and you could go to heaven. So, if you had commited a sin or were going to then you would buy these and were supposedly forgiven. They made these in order to obtain more money. They were what the people were un happy with(Unhappy with status Quo).
Who was Martin Luther?
He was a man who was studying to become a lawyer, but one day he was part of a storm. He made a deal with God that if he survives he will devote himself to God. He did survive and he devoted himself to God. Once he went to Rome and saw priest and people of the church not doing as the Bible had taught them. He went against the Catholic church. He used excerpts from the Bible as evidence for things he argued.
What were the 95 Theses?
It was a list of 95 complaints against the church that Martin Luther made. It spread far because, of the printing press. (Made a plan and put it into action).
What was the Protsent Reformation?
Was a revolution against the church. Some side from Martin Luther, others sided with the Church.
What is classical scholarship?
People started to study the classical world, such as the Greeks and Romans.
What were inquistions?
They were what the church did if they found someone guilty or if people weren’t Christan.
1. Kicked out
2. Tortured until convereted, most died beause of it.
3. Executed
(Another thing people were unhappy about).
What was the Chatolic Reformation
The Chatolic Church changed their ways.
1. Stopped selling indulgences
2. Can’t pay to become a priest
3. Sent missonaries
4. Upheld tradtional beliefs
(Plan was put into action)
Who was King Louis XVI?
He was the king of France from 1754-1793. He destroyed Frances economical state which led to an assembly. The people wanted to have an equal voice as the first and second estate, so they planned on having a revolution. He was executed and then began the Reign of Terror, when France became a democratic country.
Who was Marie Antoinette?
She was the kings wife and helped the king make decesions. She was accused of hording grain, because of that she and the king moved to Paris. She also said once, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”.
Who were the Jacobins?
They were a group of revolutionaries who attacked royal families during the war. They captured the king and in which the took control. They put the plan into action by taking away the monarch.
What was the Scientific Revolution?
Through 1540-1700 many people question our scientific understanding. (Upset with status quo)
What was the Scientific Method?
- Come up with a problem
- Research and observe
- Come up with a hypothesis
- Conduct an experiment to prove hypothesis
- Analayze and Devlop your data
- Develop a convlusion
- Futher question
(This was the plan and it was put into action).
Who was Ptolemy?
He was a Greek philsopher. He can up with the Geocentric Theory, that the Earth is in the center of the universe. This was before the scientfic revolution and the church agreed with and used the Bible to explain the world.
Who was Nicolas Copernicus?
Condricated Ptolemy’s theory and instead said that the Earth revolved around the sun, but he died before proving it.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
He proved Copernicus’ theory and proved many other things. The put him up agianst an inquistion, because he said the Earth revolves around the sun. He ended up denying his beliefs, and thus saved his life. He was put under house arrest for the rest of his life.
