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The Dutch started to monopolize trade with Asia through the Dutch East India Trading Company. They were able to keep it for about two full centuries. They also founded The Bank of Amsterdam, the first true central bank in 1609.
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A western style of music or art. Everything is a lot more detailed.
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The consumer revolution is the period from approximately 1600 to 1750 in England in which there was a marked increase in the consumption and variety of "luxury" goods and products by individuals from different economic and social backgrounds.
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The Galileo affair was a sequence of events, beginning around 1610. culminating with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633 for his support of heliocentricism.
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The Commercial Revolution was a period of European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism.
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The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists over the government. The Parliamentarians won with the beheading of King Charles 1.
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Louis XIV was born on September 5, 1638, to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. He ruled France for 72 years, the most by any one European monarch. He was best known as being an absolute monarch.
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Ended the Thirty Years War, which was the last major European religious war.
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Mercantilism was an economic theory and practice, dominant in modernized parts of Europe during the 16th to the 18th century.
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It is one of the earliest and most influential examples of the social construct theory. It is about the structure of society and legitimate government.
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The Navigation Acts were a series of English laws that restricted colonial trade to the mother country. They prohibited the colonies from trading directly with the Netherlands, Spain, France, and their colonies.
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The monarchy was restored with the crowning is King Charles 2. When he became king, strict laws were signed limiting his power and giving more power to parliamentary,
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English laws that were meant to punish Roman Catholics or nonconformists.
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Second major attempt by the Ottomans. Was unsuccessful, started the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
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Also known as the Edict of Fontainebleau. It was issued by Louis XIV of France.
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The Enlightenment was a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
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Published by Sir Isaac Newton. It was the book that had his three laws of motion. One: An object at rest will stay at rest, unless an external force acts upon it. Two: Force = Mass * Acceleration. Three: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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The Glorious Revolution was the overthrowing of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch leader William III of Orange.
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It is a work of political philosophy published by John Locke. He tries to attack the patriarchy.
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Peter the Great was a Russian czar best known for the reforms me made to Russia trying to make it a major power again.
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The Agricultural Revolution was a period of technological improvement and increased crop productivity that occurred during the 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe.
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Enclosure was the legal process in England during the 18th century of enclosing a number of small landholdings to create one larger farm. Once enclosed, use of the land became restricted to the owner, and it ceased to be common land for communal use.
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The War of the Spanish Succession was the first world war of modern times with Spain, Italy, Germany, Holland, all involved. Charles II, king of Spain, died in 1700 without an heir. In his will he gave the crown to the French prince Philip.
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Classical art and music is less complex compared to Baroque. Everything was a lot lighter and shorter. Piano music, however, became more powerful.
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Rococo was even more detailed then Baroque. Rococo are also had a lot of symmetry which was something new to western Europe.
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Frederick was a proponent of enlightened absolutism. He modernized the Prussian bureaucracy and civil service and pursued religious policies throughout his realm that ranged from tolerance to segregation. He reformed the judicial system and made it possible for non-nobles to become judges and senior bureaucrats.
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Maria Theresa promulgated financial and educational reforms, promoted commerce and the development of agriculture, and reorganized Austria's poor military, all of which strengthened Austria's international standing.
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France and Prussia fought against England and Austria. Literally nothing was solved. This war also led to the Seven Years War.
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Conflict between Great Britain and France broke out in 1754–1756 when the British attacked disputed French positions in North America and seized hundreds of French merchant ships. Meanwhile, rising power Prussia was struggling with Austria for dominance around the Holy Roman Empire in central Europe. In 1756, the major powers "switched partners". The war ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
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The Diplomatic Revolution was the reversal of longstanding alliances in Europe between the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
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Catherine the Great was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67.
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The Social Contract is a book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality
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The American Revolution was a political upheaval in which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America.
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The First Partition of Poland took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.
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An important theme that persists throughout the work is the idea that the economic system is automatic, and, when left with substantial freedom, able to regulate itself.
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The Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, experienced violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon that rapidly brought many of its principles to Western Europe and beyond.
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The slave revolt in Haiti was the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was written by the 18th-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy
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The first successful vaccine to be developed was introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796. He followed up his observation that milkmaids who had previously caught cowpox did not later catch smallpox by showing that inoculated cowpox protected against inoculated smallpox.
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The last European case was in Constantinople.
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Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a large empire that ruled over continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815.
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The Congress of Vienna was convened in 1815 by the four European powers which had defeated Napoleon.