1. CHAPTER 1 THE MODERN AGE 1500-1700
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3. BY 1500, EUROPE WAS EXPERIENCING PROFOUND CHANGES.
People started to recognize the different eras that have existed.
Middle Ages – Knights, Lords, Vassals, Peasants etc.
Renaissance – education, art, literature, science, and medicine.
*Early Modern Age – the time we’re about to look at.

4. RELIGIOUS CHANGES
THE REFORMATION – dissent had been growing within the church.
People felt the church had become too wealthy and powerful.
Martin Luther pushed to keep the church plain and simple => Protestants.

5. POLITICAL CHANGES
With people questioning the church, the kings powers increased => Divine Right of the King.
The modern idea of a ‘nation’ began to emerge.

6. ECONOMIC CHANGES
Agriculture was still the backbone but industry started to increase.
In many places serfs were no longer tied to the land.
Trade encouraged exploration and empires emerged.

7. SOCIAL CHANGES
Improved agriculture meant less farmers (consolidation), better crops, and as result, a higher population,
An increase in trade created a new Middle Class of people.
Rural life became replaced by an urban lifestyle => cities emerged.

8. INTELLECTUAL CHANGES
Humanism – mode of thought in which human interests predominate (the church??).
Science expanded, challenging several old beliefs.
Copernius/Galileo => the sun was center of universe
Inventions =>telescope, microscope, and exploration
Literature, philosophers, and theatre.

9. THE DOMINO EFFECT Trucks are invented New ideas spread more quickly
People travel
more
New laws and
Regulations needed
Horses and wagons
No longer needed
More and better
roads are needed

10. CAUSE AND EFFECT Martin Luther posts 95 Thesis The Reformation Empires
Trade expands exploration
Improved agriculture
Increased population
Renaissance
The Early Modern Age