AP Euro FRQ "Even though the renaissance had begun in main Italian city states by 1347‚ the rest of Europe was still basically Medieval in culture and outlook. Analyze how the Black Death put an end on to this medieval culture and hastened the development of the renaissance.” The Bubonic plague‚ also known as Black Death invaded the bodies of 50% of the English population‚ flourishing them with welts‚ 104-degree temperatures‚ bruising‚ wretched stench‚ coughing and death within 24 hours.
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During the Middle Ages‚ feudalism was common and people lived mainly under their lords. Peasants were assigned to work on their lord’s land and were not able to move around freely. Peasants generally lived under their lords and would only get the surplus food after they provided for their lords in exchange for the use of the land. In the late Middle Ages‚ peasants started fleeing local king owned communities and went to vast‚ open‚ and totally uninhabited land. The reason why this shifted is that
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DBQ After the devastation of World War I‚ the vast majority of people saw the world in a totally different light. So many people had died. The future of society seemed pessimistic and dark at best. The Big Four had come together in France to sign the Treaty of Versailles‚ officially ending the war in 1918. I agree with the statement that the Treaty of Versailles was ill-created‚ bringing about far more problems than it solved and later paving the road to World War II. Political‚ social‚ and economic
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Elliot Vasquez 9/28-29/13 AP European History renaissance art essay Throughout European history art has changed in many ways. During medieval European history the art style was very unrealistic. The human body proportions were all wrong. Grown men and women were sized as children or midgets. The art style was also not very elegant due to the fact it was called the dark ages. During the Italian and upper European renaissance the art styles changed along with the rest
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Michael Vazquez AP European Period 3 Presented: October 22‚ 2010 Seminar Topic: “Phillip 2 of Spain (15556-1598) built the Escorial and Louis XIV of France (1643-1715) built the Versailles. Starting with the pictures of theses palaces‚ below and on the next page‚ analyze the similarities & differences in the conception and the practices of monarchy of these two kings.” 1988 Question #3 Thesis Paragraph: King Philip II of Spain & King Louis XIV both believed in “Absolute Monarchy”
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by significant tensions among lords and peasants. These episodes of conflict set the scenario for the violent events of the Great Revolt of 1381 and ultimately led to a major shift to established authority and feudal structures. The revolt unfolded quickly‚ but not without previous warnings. Two major shaping events can be clearly identified when analyzing the changing political and economic activities of Englishmen in the period before the Peasants Revolt. First‚ the spread of bubonic plague‚ referred
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experiencing a grand accumulation of uprisings. Along with the Protestant Reformation (1517) and the Dutch Revolt (1568-1609)‚ the Germanic states and the Holy Roman Empire were home to one of the most significant peasant revolts in European history‚ the revolt of 1524. Causes of the revolt include the unfair treatment of serfs by nobles and the evolution of Lutheranism and protestant reform in peasant culture. The nobles were under the assumption that the commoners would follow them blindly with regard
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European power relationships and destroyed the Concert of Europe. Austria and Russia are enemies‚ Russia and Britain pull back from continental affairs‚ leaving Austria without powerful friends. Realpolitik‚ fluid international situation =Italian and German Unifications. Italian unification: Savoy- ruled Piedmont in N Italy = best hope for unification when lead by Count Camillo di Cavour prime minister to Victor Emmanuel II. Cavour = liberal minded moderate who favored constitutional government‚
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Unit 1: Renaissance and Reformation The Renaissance * Approximate dates: 1375 (death of Petrarch) – 1527 (sacking of Rome) * The Renaissance is highlighted by: * a rediscovery of classical learning (Greek and Roman) * beginning of science * increased diplomacy * increased secularism * new belief in the individual * Secularism: never rejects Christianity‚ however‚ rejects Church’s domination and emphasizes man’s capabilities * Begins in Italy
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Ximenes de Cisneros (1436 – 15170 urged an improvement of education level in Spanish clergy‚ established University of Alcala‚ and made a multi-lingual (Hebrew‚ Greek‚ and Latin) BibleGermany: * Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522) visited Italy encouraged German curriculum to be extended to Hebrew and Greek languages and literature * Development of Christian humanism | Classicism/Antiquity | Term for a long period of cultural history in the Balkans from the earliest recorded poetry of Homer (8th – 7th
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