AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

Commercial Revolution the expansion of the trade and buisness that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries. proto-industrialization Preliminary shift away from agricultural economy in Europe; workers become full- or part-time producers of textile and metal products, work...

Commercial Revolution the expansion of the trade and buisness that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries. proto-industrialization Preliminary shift away from agricultural economy in Europe; workers become full- or part-time producers of textile and metal products, work...

Joan of Arc Deeply religious girl. Came to Charles VII and claimed to have heard the voices of saints ordering her to save Orleans. Fought in the Hundred Years War and helped the French. Captured by the English. Burned as a heretic. Wars of the Roses English aristocratic families (with their armi...

Humanism the scholarly interest in the study of classical texts, values and styles of Greece and Rome. Humanism contributed to the promotion of a liberal arts education based on the study of the classics, rhetoric, and history Christian Humanism Northern European Reniassance. A branch of humanism...

Humanism the scholarly interest in the study of classical texts, values and styles of Greece and Rome. Humanism contributed to the promotion of a liberal arts education based on the study of the classics, rhetoric, and history Christian Humanism Northern European Reniassance. A branch of humanism...

Black Death (The Plague) 1347 Genoese sailors carried cargo along with disease-infested rats and fleas with a disease later called this. Often transmitted person to person- many priests died because cared for the sick. Started with boil, bubo that was a bump the size of a nut or apple and very pa...

Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance was the beginning of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600. Jacob Burckhart A 19th century historian who claimed the Renaissance period stood i...

Cosimo de Medici supported education and the arts, made many business connections in Europe Lorenzo Medici gave power to the lower classes of Italy, but he let his family business decline. Savonorola bonfire of Vanities and Ruled Florence STRICTLY, later exectued by the Pope Petrarch coined the ...

Cosimo de Medici supported education and the arts, made many business connections in Europe Lorenzo Medici gave power to the lower classes of Italy, but he let his family business decline. Savonorola bonfire of Vanities and Ruled Florence STRICTLY, later exectued by the Pope Petrarch coined the ...

Scientific Revolution advances in the knowledge of how nature works, included new discoveries and solved ancient problems, moved knowledge from uncertainty to uncertainty, came in the fields of physics, astronomy, and medicine alchemy the belief that matter could be understood and transformed by ...

Scientific Revolution advances in the knowledge of how nature works, included new discoveries and solved ancient problems, moved knowledge from uncertainty to uncertainty, came in the fields of physics, astronomy, and medicine alchemy the belief that matter could be understood and transformed by ...

Black Death Council of Constance burns Hus and ends Great Schism Fall of Constantinople; end of Hundred Years' War 1453 Invention of printing press 1455 Columbus encounters America; completion of reconquista in Spain 1492 Luther posts 95 Theses 1517 Cortez conquers Aztecs 1519 Act of Supre...

Mary Wollstonecraft British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men, even in voting, in her 1792 "Vindication of the Rights of Women." Montesquieu Philosophe who wrote "Spirit of Laws" in 1748. He described the British model of divided branches of governme...

Mary Wollstonecraft British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men, even in voting, in her 1792 "Vindication of the Rights of Women." Montesquieu Philosophe who wrote "Spirit of Laws" in 1748. He described the British model of divided branches of governme...