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