AP World History Units 10 and 11 Stearns Quiz Flashcards

How did Europe’s commercial revolution affect social structure? 

a wealthier merchant class and more peasant dissent, as well as a general increase in quality of life 

why was there price inflation in western europe in the sixteenth century?

• the import of gold and silver form latin american colonie

• more money available

  • production slow
    

impact of western euro inflation

• trading companies fomred

  • often state sponsored

  • etc: BEIC and DEIC

• merchants take more risks

how were peasents in europe impacted? 

they became richer and had a better quality of life as a whole

proletariat

working class people, no access to wealth producing property, product of growing commercialization in the west

impact of peasant rebellions in western eurobe in the 17th century?

• revealed ideas of equality and social tension

• increased thoughts of overthrowing gov

  • populism and more voices

witchcraft persecution

reflected resentment against the poor and uncertainty about religion. many deaths, common in protestant areas

what were the most innovative features of western science? 

scientific thought and methods as well as organization

sci rev

17th century, logic advances, changes specific beliefs and wider culture

nicolaus copernicus

heliocentric model, countered greek thought.

may have copied muslim, east asian, and american thought

johannes kepler

astronomer, three laws of planetary motion, optics, astrology

galileo galilei

published heliocentric, added gravity and planetary motion laws. condemned by catholic church 

william harvey (harvey hearts)

demonstrated circular movement of blood with heart at the center

francis bacon

empirical research, worked on sci method

rene descartes

importance of skepticism, human logic can make fundamental nature laws

isaac newton 

• principia mathematicia cleaned everything up

• three laws of motion

• laws of planetary motion

• vision of the whole universe

impact of the sci rev among educated west?

scientific institutes, witchcraft declines, belief of environmental control (scientific doctors, insurance, etc)

deism

sci rev idea of god, obeyed the laws of motion. god’s only purpose is to set natural laws in motion.

john locke

everyone can learn though senses and reason. faith is irrelevant.