Renaissance & Age of Exploration
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Concepts/Themes
People
Effects
Causes
Rediscovery of ancient, classical texts
Trade and emergence of banking/commercial markets
Medicis
Petrarch
Scholasticism
Machiavelli
Humanism
Sets stage for further investigation of knowledge / learning in Sci Rev, Enlightenment
Greater emphasis on the invidual vs community
New Monarchies (ie Ferdinand and Isabella)
The Age of Reformation
Causes
Christopher Columbus
Columbian Exchange
Resulted in the exchange of goods, knowledge and diseases
Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Creation of a global economy and networks of trade
Decimation of Native populations in the Americas
Increasing secularism (movement away from solely ecclesiastical knowledge or perception of reality
Effects
People
Martin Luther
Henry VIII
John Calvin
95 Thesis (1517)
Corruption in the Catholic Church (ie indulgences)
Religious Wars
Thirty Years War
French Wars of Religion
Henry IV
Edict of Nantes (1598)
Peace of Augsburg (1555)
Charles V (HRE)
Creation of Printing Press (1450)
Establishes the Anglican Church in England