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AP 23.460 Holland – Tulip Mania!
There once was a flower that was unable to settle down anywhere. From the mountains in Kazakhstan, the flower bulb wandered about in Persia, China and Turkey. Until a Dutch scientist took the bulb with him to a small European country. There the flower enjoyed the climate and the soil, and the inhabitants immediately fell in love with the flower and soon designated it a national symbol. It all sounds like a fairy tale, but this is the true story of the tulip. Continue reading Post ID 49628
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AP 23.389 Counter Reformation – The Catholic Response
The Counter-Reformation (also the Catholic Revival or Catholic Reformation) was the period of Catholic resurgence beginning with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and ending at the close of the Thirty Years’ War (1648), and was initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation.
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AP 23.388 Crash Course – Reformation and Consequences
The Protestant Reformation didn’t exactly begin with Martin Luther, and it didn’t end with him either. Reformers and monarchs changed the ways that religious and state power were organized throughout the 16th and early 17th centuries. Jean Calvin in France and Switzerland, the Tudors in England, and the Hugenots in France also made major contributions to the Reformation.
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AP 23.385 English Reformation – Queen Elizabeth I
(7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)
Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last monarch of the House of Tudor.
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AP 23.383 English Reformation – Henry VIII (England)
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death. Henry was the second Tudor monarch, succeeding his father, Henry VII.
Henry VIII’s marital problems lead to a break with the Catholic Church and decades of conflict as England becomes a Protestant nation.
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AP 23.379 Khan – The Protestant Reformation
Key Points:
– There was one form of Christianity in Western Europe before the Reformation (1517)
– The Reformation caused an explosion of different types of Christianity (Protestant denominations)
– Pope Leo X authorized the sale of indulgences to rebuild St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome
– Church doctrine stated that good works and indulgences shortened time in Purgatory
– Johann Tetzel sold indulgences by giving the impression that salvation could be purchased
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AP 23.372 Reformation – Martin Luther Sparks a Revolution
Martin Luther (November 10 , 1483 – February 18, 1546) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, a Catholic monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Europe.
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AP 23.368 Reformation – Protestants and Other Early Reformers
During the Protestant Reformation, religious reformers called protestants broke from the Catholic Church and started new Christian denominations (different versions of Christianity)
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AP 23.355 Renaissance – What was it?
The Renaissance is a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age. Europe saw a great revival of interest in the classical learning and values of ancient Greece and Rome.
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AP 23.354 Renaissance – Humanism and the Catholic Church
Humanism is applied to the overreaching social and intellectual philosophies of the Renaissance era, in which the beauty of the individual was elevated to preeminence. To put it in simpler terms, humanism is the belief that man has beauty, worth, and dignity. Therefore, life here on Earth should be cherished rather than simply endured.
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AP 23.353 Renaissance – What Was Humanism?
hu·man·ism – noun
– an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.
– a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.Humanism is thought to have begun in the late 14th-century in Italy and was a major movement of the Renaissance. According to research published in Oxford Bibliographies, it spread to the rest of Europe in the mid-15th century and by the 16th century, it was the dominant intellectual movement. Continue reading Post ID 49628
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AP 23.348 Early Gunpowder Weapons
17 century Firearm WeaponsARQUEBUSIER ARMED WITH MATCHLOCK MUSKET, ILLUSTRATION FROM ‘MANUAL OF ARMS’, 1607
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AP 23.343 Absolutism – The Russian Czar (Tsarina) – (Catherine the Great)
Catherine II was empress of Russia, and she led her country into the political and cultural life of Europe, carrying on the work begun by Peter the Great. She was an ENLIGHTENED MONARCH!
Under her reign, Russia expanded its territories and modernized, following the lead of Western Europe.
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