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Western Civ Final
From the Crusades on
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History
Undergraduate 2
12/09/2010

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Octavian "Augustus"
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< 100s in Ancient Rome
Moral, good, and loved emperor. Created fire and police departments, more advanced, beat Antony.
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Caesar
Definition
< 100s Ancient Rome
Expanded Rome into Asia Minor, dictator, was murdered.
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Constantine
Definition
300s AD in Rome
Builds a new city, Constantinople.
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Aristotle
Definition
After Plato Archaic Greece
Polis is necessary, "well-rounded" education is necessary.
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Plato
Definition
After Socrates, Archaic Greece
Only philosopher kings could rule.
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Socrates
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400s BC Archaic Greece
Revolutionized philosophy, examined ethics, didn't believe in democracy.
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William the Conquerer
Definition
Feudal Europe
Duke of Normandy "bastard"
Wins battle of Hastings, is king
German, English, French culture
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Saladin
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King of Egyptians and Syrians during Crusades
Leads, reunifies muslim, becomes "patron st."
Just, humane, chivalrous
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Richard "the Lionhearted"
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King of England, fights in third crusade (failure), captured by Germans and held for ransom.
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Henry VIII
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Kills/divorces his wives, starts English Reformation, protestantism.
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Elizabeth I
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Protestant, politique
Made England strong
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Charles I
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Parliament won't grant him money so he rules without them. Invades parliament, causes civil war, killed.
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Oliver Cromwell
Definition
Leader of round heads, puritan army vs Charles I. Names self "protectorate" (military dictator).
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Philip Augustus II
Definition
King of France, fought in third crusade.
Spread influence of monarch, financial stability
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Joan of Arc
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14 yrs old, leads French against England.
Burned by Inquisition.
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Henry IV
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King of Navarre, then France.
Politique, religious freedom, full civil rights to Huguenots.
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Cardinal Richelieu
Definition
"Puppet master" of France, extended Thirty Years War.
Wants to weaken France's enemies (even catholics), politique.
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Louis XIV
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King of France, absolute monarch. Bought nobles off with titles, Palace of Versailles. Forces catholicism, huguenots banned. France is repressed and dumb under his rule.
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Voltaire
Definition
Wrote satire (Candide), French. Jailed in France, fled to England where he was free, promoted England.
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Ferdinand and Isabella
Definition
Reconquista, united Spain, started Spanish Inquisition.
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Charles V
Definition
Makes Peace of Augsberg to make nobles fight in the war.
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HernĂ¡n Cortes
Definition
Conquers the Aztecs.
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Philip II
Definition
Catholic King of Spain, ruled well for over 40 years. Converts everyone to catholicism, targets Netherlands. Because of religious zeal, sends Spain into financial decline.
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Frederick Barbarossa
Definition
(First HRE) Led Germans into third crusade, drowned in a shallow river, Germans fled.
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Johannes Gutenberg
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Invented printing press, started revolution because people gained literacy.
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Martin Luther
Definition
Pissed at catholics, wrote 95 theses, started Lutheranism.
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Dante Alighieri
Definition
Italian poet of the Middle Ages, the Inferno where Vergil was the guide.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Definition
Italian philosopher, started political science, politique. Discourses of Livy (praised Rome), The Prince (handbook for tyrants).
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Michelangelo Buonarotti
Definition
Sculpts David and Adam. Focuses on humanism, not God.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Definition
Renaissance Man, perfect man, genius. Ahead of his time.
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Christopher Columbus
Definition
Italian, worked for Ferdinand and Isabella, discovers the Bahamas.
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Catherine de Medici
Definition
Played families against each other to maintain power. Politque, Queen for a long time, religious freedom, then St. Bartholomew's Day.
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John Calvin
Definition
Started Calvinism (predestination), French.
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Gustavus Adolphus II
Definition
Lutheran king of Sweden, secretly in pay of France, impressive victories, died leading a battle.
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William of Orange
Definition
Dutch king, whom the English Parliament invited to be king of England during the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
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Absolute Monarchy
Definition
The monarch controls the right to make war, tax, and judge. He governs authority as head of state and government, wielding political power over the sovereign state and its people.
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Avignon Papacy
Definition
city on the southeastern border of France, seat of the papacy (Pope's office) between 305 and 378.
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Black Death
Definition
Epidemic of the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe, East Asia, and North Africa, killing 1/3 of the European population.
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Counter-Reformation
Definition
To counter the spread of the reformation and initiated by the Catholic church at the Council of Trent in 1545.
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Huguenots
Definition
French Protestants who endured severe persecution in the 16th and 17th century.
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Humanism
Definition
belief that humans have dignity and our existence matters. Also sparked the Renaissance, scientific revolution, reformation, and the enlightenment.
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Indulgence
Definition
Remissions of the penances owed by Catholics as part of the process by which their sins are forgiven.
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Inquisition
Definition
Tribunal of the Roman Catholic church that aimed to enforce religious orthodoxy and conformity.
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Magna Carta
Definition
signed by King John of England which limited the king's fiscal powers and is seen as a landmark in the political evolution of the west.
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Parliamentary Monarchy
Definition
Have reserve powers in which they elect their king or prime minister who will act as head if state. Government is established under a constitutional system.
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Politique
Definition
Rulers who cared more about citizens who obeyed the laws, not what religions they were.
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Reformation
Definition
Religious and political movement in 16th century Europe that led to the breakaway of Protestant groups from the Catholic church. Martin Luther and John Calvin.
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Renaissance
Definition
sparked by humanistic ideas, and referred to as expanded cultural production of European nations between 1300-1600.
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Scholasticism
Definition
doctrines taught in schools, which were universities of late medieval Europe, and an intellectual system that sought to reconcile classical Greek philosophy with Christian faith through reason.
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Vernacular
Definition
the native language of a population located in a country or in an area defined on some other basis such as locality.
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