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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to collect experience. Supporting the Great Cultural Revolution is a great chance for us young people to develop ourselves.’ This early radicalism combined‚ as Mao did‚ an interest in personal exercise with a crusading‚ war-loving spirit. As the Huguenot enthusiast de Mournay put it‚ "Peace is a great evil‚ war is a great good. . . . Peace is proper to the miscreant; but war‚ to the true believer. Contrasts between passive flight and violent activism‚ between blackness and light (especially the sun)
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tidewater South. But the colonists were "different sorts" to begin with; the Pilgrims and Puritans of the North were outcasts before they came across the Atlantic. The middle-staters of Pennsylvania�--the Quakers�--and especially Maryland�--Catholics‚ Huguenots‚ and Presbyterians�--were already in search of a place where they could be different and be at least quasi-independent. To lay the responsibility for the revolution on mountains and streams‚ thereby ignoring the nature of the people before they arrived
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AN OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY "Heaven and Earth never agreed better to frame a place for man’s habitation." John Smith‚ 1607 CHAPTER 1 THE FIRST AMERICANS At the height of the Ice Age‚ between 34‚000 and 30‚000 B.C.‚ much of the world’s water was contained in vast continental ice sheets. As a result‚ the Bering Sea was hundreds of meters below its current level‚ and a land bridge‚ known as Beringia‚ emerged between Asia and North America. At its peak‚ Beringia is thought to have been
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Trop souvent‚ lorsque nous parlons de nos saints missionnaires qui ont travaillé à l’évangélisation du Canada‚ nous pensons qu’au Jésuites. Les pères Jésuites ont fait beaucoup pour christianiser le nouveau monde et surtout le Canada. Mais nous oublions un groupe très important dans l’histoire de la mission du Canada : les pères Récollets. Dans ce présent travail nous allons voir ce qu’on fait les pères Récollets au Canada avant l’arrivée des pères Jésuites. Nous verrons premièrement la démarche
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The Shaping of North America 225 million years ago-Pangaea “supercontinent” 10 million years ago- Rocky Mountains exist Appalachians exist Continents are separated 2 million years ago- an Ice Age envelopes the planet and the water level lowers 35 000 years ago- the Bering Land Bridge appears animals cross‚ followed by nomadic Asian hunters 10 000 years ago- the Ice Age ends nomadic people create civilization By1492 AD‚ the population grows to 72 million *only 7-10 million
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Italian/Northern Renaissance | | Medici Family | They dominated Florence during the 15th century and were interested in industry‚ trade‚ and banking. The first was Giovanni di Bicci de’Medici (1360-1429)‚ and the most famous was Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492)‚ the great grandson of Giovanni. Medici power fell after Savonarola (1452-1498)‚ a Franciscan friar‚ gained power‚ and therefore‚ Florence was never the same. | Humanism | England: * Started taking hold in early 15th century taught
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In 1604‚ Shakespeare acted as a matchmaker for his landlord’s daughter. Legal documents from 1612‚ when the case was brought to trial‚ show that Shakespeare was a tenant of Christopher Mountjoy‚ a Huguenot tire-maker (a maker of ornamental headdresses) in the northwest of London in 1604. Mountjoy’s apprentice Stephen Belott wanted to marry Mountjoy’s daughter. Shakespeare was enlisted as a go-between‚ to help negotiate the details of the dowry. On
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Introduction: The Reformation in Britain: 1. The reign of Henry VIII: a. Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon: the divorce issue b. Thomas Cromwell’s ascendancy‚ 1531-1540‚ and the establishment of royal supremacy over the church in England (Church of England) c. Constitutional implications of England’s break with Rome d. The dissolution of the monasteries e. Henry VIII’s foreign policy f. Anne Boleyn accused of adultery and Henry other wife’s 2. The reign of Edward VI: Ecclesiastical
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Archimedes of Syracuse (pronounced ar-ka-meed-eez) He is considered one of the greatest mathematicians in history. In fact‚ he is believed to be one of the three greatest mathematicians along with Isaac Newton and Carl Gauss. His greatest contributions to mathematics were in the area of Geometry. Archimedes was also an accomplished engineer and an inventor. He was believed to have been obsessed with Geometry though. Archimedes was born in Syracuse‚ Greece in 287 BC and died 212 BC after being
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