1. October 12th TAKE OUT: Key Terms handout SS Notebook for warmup
Learning Objective:
I can begin to describe the changing political system following the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Protestant Reformation.
I will practice critical reading

2. Warmup 10/11/17
Who is in the painting?
What do you think is going on in the painting? Pay attention to the background
What is the message of the painting?
For example, why did the artist paint this?

3. Louis XIV of France being crowned by victory after the 1673 Siege of Maastricht
by Pierre Mignard

4. A political system where one single ruler has complete power.
These rulers want to be absolute monarchs, kings or queens who have complete power over their territory
Absolute monarchs believed in divine right, the idea that God created the monarchy and the monarchy acts as God’s representative on Earth
Absolute monarch only answers to God, not to his or her subjects
Absolutism
Check your definitions, change or add to it if you’re missing anything

5. No one man should have all that power
Literally means “Great Charter”
A document drawn up by English nobles in 1215 to limit the powers of the English king and guarantees certain basic political rights to the nobles, such as:
In later years, English people of all social classes would argue that certain sections in the Magna Carta applied to everyone.
No taxation without representation
A jury trial
Protection of the law
No one man should have all that power
Magna Carta
Check your definitions, change or add to it if you’re missing anything

6. Protectorate A government run by a “protector” OR
Puerto Rico is a protectorate of the United States.
A government run by a “protector” OR
a state/territory that is controlled and protected by another
Protectorate
Check your definitions, change or add to it if you’re missing anything

7. Commonwealth Literally means “common well- being” in Old English
A nation or state where power rest in the people – a republic
The nation or state is also founded on laws agreed on by the people for the common good
Commonwealth
Check your definitions, change or add to it if you’re missing anything

8. Age of Absolutism

9. BALANCE OF POWER

10. A power vacuum…Why? DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS
Black Plague and Wars weaken feudal lords
Renaissance weakens the power of the Catholic Church
Age of Exploration makes kings rich
Absolute Power is hereditary
DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS
The belief that kings get their power from God, NOT the people
Jean Bodin (French philosopher): Only absolutism could provide order and force people to obey authority
A power vacuum…Why?

11. Europeans began to explore to the Americas, Africa and Asia
5 powerful countries/families
England – The Tudors
France – The Bourbons
Spain – The Hapsburgs
Prussia – The Hohenzollerns
Russia – The Romanovs
Large Standing armies = Balance of Power in Europe
No more feudal armies
Age of Exploration
“The absolute and perpetual power of a Republic”
Centralized Government
Central governments evolved into nation-states
with strict boundaries
with unified role
with permanent armies
Citizens shared:
language
colture
national loyalty
religion (sometimes)

12. Europe torn apart by religious conflict following the Reformation(s)
Religious strife
Europe torn apart by religious conflict following the Reformation(s)

13. In France more than 10,000 Protestants killed following the St
In France more than 10,000 Protestants killed following the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in 1572 (we’ll talk about this again…)
Spain fought bloody wars against Protestants in the Netherlands in the late 1500s.
Thousands died in the Catholic Counter- Reformation—many at the hand of the Inquisition(s)
Thirty Years War ( ), a bloody Catholic-Protestant fight for control of Germany and central Europe.
Religious strife

14. Please take out Highlighter(s)
A blank sheet of paper (not in your notebook)
Please take out