1. Chapter 5 Religious Wars and State Building
Going from Religious Wars to Freedom 1

2. Notes Hugenots Civil Wars Revolt of the Netherlands Thirty's Years War
Catherine Medcidi
St,Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Revolt of the Netherlands
Thirty's Years War
Art- Baroque
Questions on page 69 1,2,4 2

3. Chapter 6 A New Order in Science and Politics
Scientific Revolution Terms
Cosmology- theory of order of the universe
Epistemology- theory of knowledge
Heliocentric- sun centred
Geocentric- earth centred
Circular Motion-
Key People
Galileo, Newton, Bacon, Lock, Descartes 3

4. Scientific Revolution4

5. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473- 1543)
heliocentric Ø On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Galileo Galilei 5

6. Scientists Johannes Kepler (1571-1630' Ø ellipses
Ø velocity
Ø mathematics
Tyco Brahe ( )
supernova, 1572; comet, 1577 6

7. Sir Issac Newton
Gravity 7

8. Sir Francis Bacon Empiricism Induction
Learned through trial and error.
Did a lot of medical research on the human body 8

9. John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Tabula Rasa- Blank Slate
Idea of Progress is in our Own Hands 9

10. Rene Descartes Discourse On Method Rationalism
“I think therefore I am”
Rationalism 10

11. Politics- Absolutism Key Terms
Absolutism-a political philosophy based on the concept that the monarch in any sovereightny has absolute power and that the state should be centralized under this authority
Classicism- was an expression of admiration for the achievements of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Centralized authority -the idea that the state should be governed from the centre and that local areas and individuals that have no power 11

12. Louis the XIV (14th) Known as the Sun King
Expansion of military service
Change in social system 12

13. Absolutism
Economy
Under advisory Jean Baptiste Colbert tax system was changed.
Modern policy of work projects( canals and roads)
Increase exports, decrease imports
Social System
Fuedal system was superseded by one authority. 13

14. War of Spanish Succession
Fought under the idea that the crowns of France and Spain should be united
Treaty of Utrecht 1713 stated that France and Spain would never be united
Also England gained the colonies of Acadia and NFLD from France, and Gibraltar and Minorca from Spain as well as the slave trading rights of Spanish America. France was still a strong power in Europe.

15. Constitutionalism
State in which authority is disturbed legally among a number of institutions and levels.
This differs from absolutism as there are many levels of government. 15

16. England and the Puritans
Charles I- try to rule by personal rule and avoid the parliaments,
religious issues- favouring Catholics and trying to strongarm churches
He was executed by decisions of the parliaments in 1649.
England was without a monarch for 11 years until a new set of rules was devised and Charles II took the thrown in 1690 16

17. Thomas Hobbes Wrote the Leviathan
Believed the sovereign should have absolute authority.
Did not have a good opinion of human nature
Believed all people were equal under the law 17

18. England and Constitutional Monarchy
Parlimanet passed the Test Act in 1673 that said only those who practiced the state religion could hold civil and miliatry offices
Two political parties- Tories ( king supporters) and Whigs- (parliament authority)
Glorious Revolution 18

19. Locke Wrote the Two Treatises of Government in 1690
Natural Rights- the idea that all individuals have rights, such as the right to life, freedom of speech and freedom of religion that cannot be taken away by the state or any other sovereignty.
Believed in the need for different levels of the government to prevent too much power being taken by one person.
Believed the idea of property to be very important so only men in England that had property were allowed full political rights although all were equal under the law. 19