Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment By: Megan Davies, Phillip Dougherty, and John Kinkead
Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment
By: Megan Davies, Phillip Dougherty, and John Kinkead
Empiricism ( pg 527)
What?What?• It was part of the scientific revolution• This was during the sixteenth and
seventeenth century So what?So what? • Empiricism was the theory that all
knowledge originates in the experience; the practice of relying on direct observation of events and experience for determining reality
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Humanism (439)
What?What?• This was supported by men such as
Boccaccio and Petrarch • Was the central motivating philosophy
of the Renaissance So What?So What?• the term which was applied to the
intellectual movement initiated in western Europe in the fourteenth century.
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Enlightened Despotism (535)
What?What?• A ruler who used this system was Fredrick II
the great of Prussia also Catharine II of Russia • Taxes were reasonable agriculture and
handicraft was encouraged freedom of speech and religion was allowed and lastly the military was strengthened in result of all this a powerful empire was formed
So What?So What?• a form of government where the ruler has
absolute rights over his or her subjects, but uses this power for their benefit
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Concordat (545)
What?What? • Napoleon had a Concordat with the pope.
So What?So What?• a public agreement, subject to
international law, between the pope as head of Roman Catholic Church and a temporal ruler regulating the status, rights, and liberties of Church within the country concerned
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Important Places
• London= Start of Industrial Revolution, Chartist movement, equal rights
• Paris= Revolutions, labor unions, worker revolts
• Rome= Start of Renaissance, spread to the rest of Europe
• Germany= Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, Bismarck
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Key Leaders: Thomas Hobbes
• Political Philosopher, he wrote Leviathan which said to limit the power of the king
• In “State of Nature” Hobbes said that people need leaders so that they will not be in chaos, this is known as the social contract
523-524 PD
Key Leaders: John Locke• Believed in the social
contract like Hobbes• Locke believed how ever
that “equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man”.
• He also believed that a government should be ruled by the majority
• The most important thing that he believed in was that property and private profit were what government should encourage people to do 524 PD
Key Leaders: Napoleon• Created the Code
Napoleon, which allowed for equality in laws and said that people can go into any profession they wanted to
• He also allowed all religions the same rights and brought said that the pope can have control over the Roman Catholic church
• Napoleon then sought to spread the principles of the French revolution to others through conquering them thus creating an empire, and the Napoleonic wars
545-546 PD
Key Leaders: Karl Marx
• Created the Communist Manifesto, this book called for a a worker led revolution
• Proletariats or the labor classes should rise up and become the ruling classes because the workers are the ones that keep the nations going
581-583 PD
Time Line (455)Date What happened? Significance?
1789 (France) Tennis Court Oath When the third estate told the king they wanted a new constitution and would have a revolution to get one. (led to the French revolution)
1791-9 (France)
Second French Revolution
Revolt of the poor, everyone wanted to have equal rights
1804 (France) Napoleon becomes Emperor
Spreads the principles of the French revolutions to other countries
1820 (Britain) Chartist Movement Chartist movement for men's suffrage, men get the right to vote
1848 (Europe) Communist Manifesto A book by Marx, saying that socialism is the only good form of government
1884 (France) Labor Unions Labor Unions in France are legalized
Question 1
• Question: How was the Medici family the “father family” of the renaissance?
• Answer: – They sponsored many new artists and
flourishing peoples in Florence (the capital city of the Renaissance)
– Their reign lasted many years, providing many years of patronage.
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Question 2
• Question: How did the views of Locke and Hobbs affect the Enlightenment?
• Answer:– Locke: created idea of a strong democracy
ruled by the will of the people and a voluntary government- allegiance to the king is based on how well they are treated
– Hobbs: created “social contract” and believed that the government was to serve the people
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Question 3
• Question: Why did Europe shift towards capitalism?
• Answer: – 1. It offers profit, education, motivation,
and growth of the middle class– 2. Unlike mercantilism/feudalism which
gives the government the wealth, the profit goes to the people.
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Question 4• Question: How was the Church involved in the
Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment?
• Answer:– Renaissance: disliked pursuit of personal profit, and
personal business.– Reformation: Martin Luther and John Calvin taught
new forms of religion, besides the powerful and big Catholic Church. The Church, being outraged with these new reforms brought along the Counter-Revolution
– Enlightenment: Led by the philosophes that were deist, which means that they taught human reason over the authority of the Church.
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