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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The Transformation of the West: 1450-1750
World Civilizations, The Global Experience
AP* Edition, 5th Edition
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Copyright 2007, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman
Chapter 17: The Transformation of the West: 1450-1750
I. The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce
II. Science and Politics: The Next Phase of Change
III. The West by 1750
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Chapter 17: The Transformation of the West: 1450-1750
I. The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce
A. A New Spirit
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
Secular writing, achievement
B. The Italian Renaissance
Western Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation
Begins 14th, 15th centuries
In northern Italy
Italy
Urbanized
Merchant class
City-states politics
Petrarch, Boccaccio
Italian writings
Secular topics
Painting
Use of perspective
Shadow, distance
Focus on humans
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Chapter 17: The Transformation of the West: 1450-1750
I. The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce
B. The Italian Renaissance
Michelango Buonarotti
Leonardo da Vinci
Nicolo Machiavelli
Humanism
Focus on humankind
Looking back to classical past
Study of texts, especially ancient
C. The Renaissance Moves Northward
By 1500, impetus moves north
Northern Renaissance
France, Low Countries, England, Germany
Thence to eastern Europe
More concerned with religious matters
William Shakespeare - England
Miguel de Cervantes -Spain
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Chapter 17: The Transformation of the West: 1450-1750
I. The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce
D. Changes in Technology and Family
Technology
printing
Family
Ordinary people married at a later age, and a primary emphasis on the nuclear family developed
Changes influenced husband-wife relations and intensified links between families and individual
property holdings.
Later marriage was a form of birth control and helped to control population expansion.
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Chapter 17: The Transformation of the West: 1450-1750
I. The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce
E. The Protestant and Catholic Reformations
1517, Martin Luther's challenge
Attacks church institutions
Bible the only authority
Vernacular translations
Protestant protest used for political gain
German opposition to the papacy
Rulers seize church lands
Henry VIII
Establishes Anglican church
Jean Calvin
Calvinism
Predestination
Catholic Reformation
Renewal
Jesuits
Missionaries
Education
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Chapter 17: The Transformation of the West: 1450-1750
I. The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce
F. The End of Christian Unity in the West
Religious Wars
France
Calvinists v. Catholics
1598, Edict of Nantes
Promises Protestants’ toleration
30 Years War (1618-1648)
Devastating to Germany
German Protestants/
Lutheran Sweden vs.
Holy Roman Emp/Spain
Netherlands independent
Literacy increases
Western Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation
G. The Commercial Revolution
Inflation, 16th century
Gold, silver from New World
Demand outstrips supply
H. Social Protest
Proletariat develops
Attitudes towards poor change
Protests; Witchcraft hysteria
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Chapter 17: The Transformation of the West: 1450-1750
II. Science and Politics: The Next Phase of Change
A. Did Copernicus Copy?
Nicolai Copernicus
Polish monk
Knowledge of work of al-Urdi and al-Tusi?
Earlier Arab scientists
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B. Science: The New Authority
New instruments add to data collection
Galileo Galilei
Uses Copernicus' work
Kepler’s observations confirm earlier work
William Harvey
Circulatory system
Methods
Francis Bacon
Empirical research
René Descartes
Skepticism
Isaac Newton
System of natural laws
Deism
God does not intervene with nature
John Locke
Use of reason, senses
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II. Science and Politics: The Next Phase of Change
C. Absolute and Parliamentary Monarchies
17th century, medieval balance disrupted
Western Europe under Absolute Monarchies
France dominates
Centralized monarchy
Bureaucracy
“Absolute monarchy"
Louis XIV the best example
“I am the state.”
Nobles kept at court
Other absolute monarchs
Spain, Prussia, Austria-Hungary
Territorial expansion
England
Difference
Civil War
Parliament triumphant
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D. The Nation-State
Definition
Ruled people with common language, culture
National literature, songs, foods
Territorial aspect
Common allegiance
Expectation that govt. should act in their best interests
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III. The West by 1750
A. Political Patterns
Great change in central Europe
Frederick the Great of Prussia
Religious freedom
State regulates economy
Better agricultural methods
Overseas commercial networks
Continual warfare
France v. Britain
Rivalry over overseas territory/colonial power
Prussia v. Austria
Territorial conflicts
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B. Enlightenment Thought and Popular Culture
Scientific Revolution leads to Enlightenment
Scientific methods applied to other fields
General principles
People are good
Reason the answer
Belief in progress
Political science
Adam Smith
Laissez-faire
Criminology
Society
Women's rights
Protection of children
Attack inequities
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III. The West by 1750
C. Ongoing Change in Commerce and Manufacturing
Mass consumerism
Agriculture
West improved food supply and agricultural efficiency, leaving more labor for other pursuits
Nitrogen-fixing crops
Stockbreeding
Swamp drainage
Potatoes, etc. introduced
Domestic system
Capitalists merchants distributed supplies and orders and workers ran production process for pay
D. Innovation and Instability
Change becomes the norm
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