Western Civilization from 1650 to the Present Dr. Edrene S. McKay Website: Online-History.org Phone: (479) 855-6836 ABSOLUTISM V. CONSTITUTIONALISM TWO MODELS OF GOV’T DECIDING FACTORS: Revenue Concerns Religious Factors Institutional Differences Personalities Social Concerns During the 17th century‚ France and England moved in two very different political directions. By the close of the century‚ after decades of civil and religious strife‚ ENGLAND had
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Richelieu‚ and Cardinal Mazarin centralized power and enlarged lands‚ making France an absolute monarchy. Aristocrats wanted equal political and social power‚ causing the French Revolution. King Louis XIV initiated religious tension because he destroyed Huguenot buildings and revoked the Edict of Nantes. In the 1600s in England‚ Puritans revolted against the Stuart monarchy of Charles I. Oliver Cromwell‚ who became Lord Protector and virtual absolute monarch through the army‚ established a republic. Charles
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I. Changes Leading to Exploration A. Expulsion of Moors in Spain and reunification of the country under Catholic rulers Isabella and Ferdinand caused an age of exploration and expansion. B. After German Monk Martin Luther posted his 95 theses against church abuses‚ there was a powerful movement away from the Catholic Church called the Protestant Reformation‚ causing the Roman Catholic countries to secure their power in the world by converting
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education and the exploration and colonisation of America. From a young age Raleigh valued education through his “[attendance]… Oriel College‚ Oxford‚ and studied law at the Middle Temple law college” (bio.com). Raleigh left his study to fight for the Huguenots
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AP European History Study Guide Pre-Renaissance * Middle Ages: began around 500 AD and ended around 1450 AD * Early Middle Ages * Roman Empire fell‚ Europe is turbulent and dark * Europe is being created by Germanic‚ Roman‚ and Church * Church * power founded in papacy * was political as well as spiritual * bishop of Rome lead Church * began the Pope system * Pope>Archbishops>Bishops>Priests * to go to heaven‚ followers had to
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Ap Packet page 6 D. English Civil War 1. Political- One of the causes was Charles’s I unsuccessful attempt to arrest five members of Parliament‚ known as the Grand Remonstrance‚ on January 4‚ 1642. Another cause was who should have the power in the country and inflation forced up prices in all parts of Europe. An effect would be that England became a Commonwealth and a Protectorate. Parliamentary supremacy was another effect. 2. Religious-One of the causes was that the Puritans‚ sought to do away
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The religious warfare of the sixth and seventh century changed the political shape of Europe through political unrest’s well and social unrest that would unite different regions with the Holy Roman Empire. As well in other sites and countries on the similar religious views diffing that of the government or the masses on what they believe is right or the are being suppressed by others or their leaders.The Holy Roman Empire was on the of the first major conflicts of the sixth century and started the
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difficult to imagine a world without clocks. People in the modern economy depends on the ability to measure time. Switzerland & Watch : Switzerland & Watch Watch making in Switzerland was introduced in the middle of the sixteenth century by the Huguenots. Around 1785 some 2000 persons worked in the watch making industry of Geneva The late seventeenth and the late eighteenth centuries‚ the center if the world watch industry was Britain. By 1901 Switzerland was again the most efficient producer of
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Geography Essay Geography is a factor and has to do with people’s life everywhere‚ but it doesn’t have a major impact and has a great impact in them. Not to mention that there are other major factors like the economics‚ religion‚ education‚ etc. in the three English settlements: New England‚ Mid-Atlantic‚ and the South that really influence their lives. The different kind of races of people that came from the Old World‚ and the way they influenced the development of the colonies had a heavy impact
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born in Cape Town‚ South Africa. He was South-African Dutch Reformed leader and an author of many devotional books. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa and his mother was a descendant of French Huguenot and German Lutheran. This background explained his love to God and his faith toward cross-cultural mission. Murray was one of the chief promoters that called to mission in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church‚ the European church‚
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