Commercial Revolution

Economic Change• Massive Price inflation due to

influx of bullion (gold) from the New World

• Could not keep up demand for goods

• Heavy investments – trading companies

•European merchants began to replace Arab and Indian traders

•Shift from subsistence economy to production for the market

•Population increase = Urbanization

• New class – proletariat – laborers without property – lived in poverty

• Changes in social structure caused many uprisings to uphold traditional life and doing business – uprisings failed

• Witchcraft prosecutions increased – poor and women

Absolute and Parliamentary

Monarchies

• Centralized monarchies replaced feudal governments – kings gained power over aristocracy through military and administration

• France – Louis XIV (14th) best example of absolute monarchy

• Louis XIV – national economic policy (mercantilism), encouraged scientific development, destroyed power of nobility

• E. Europe – tried to imitate Louis XIV – Prussia and Austria Hungary – built strong military and national economy

• French aggression lead to alliances

• Britain and Netherlands – centralized governments through parliamentary monarchies

• Glorious Revolution – parliament won sovereignty over monarchs

• Monarchies would never be able to completely displace nobility

Scientific Revolution

ConditionsIn Europe

Deism: belief in one God, who created the universe and then allowed it to

operate by natural laws

II. CausesA.Renaissance- spirit of curiosity

B.Reformation- questioned the accepted way of thinking about God

C. ExplorationD. Printing Press

III. Astronomy

A. Geocentric Theory(Earth Centered)

•Aristotle - Greek philosopher thought of it

•Ptolemy -expanded the theory

• Christianity-Upheld this theory

B.Heliocentric Theory•The sun is the center of the universe

•based on a Greek idea that the sun stood in the center of the universe

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish Astronomer; father of modern astronomy ; authored 'De Revolutionibus' proving the sun to be the centre of the universe in 1530, published in 1543, before his death

1. Copernicusa.Earth not stationary, but turns on an axis once a dayb.Earth not center of the universe-instead the earth and other planets revolve around the sun

2.Johannes Kepler•Student of Brahe

•Mathematical proved the planets move around the sun in elliptical orbits instead of circles

Galileo Galile

(1564-1642)

•With telescope saw the moon, planets, and stars; saw that the moon had craters and jagged mountains

•declared the heavenly bodies were imperfect

The Scientific Method

Logical procedure for gathering and testing

ideas

Scientific MethodObservation

2. Question.

3 Hypothesis.

4. Experimentation5 Conclusion.

Key People in the the development

of Scientific Method

A. Francis Bacon

Criticized how medieval scholars arrived at their conclusions

Empiricism - experimental method to make conclusions

B. Rene Descartes

• Developed analytical geometry

• Math and Logic to make conclusions

1) Careful experiments and observations

2) Reason is used to interpret the results of the experiments and observations

3) Mathematics rather than logic, or reasoning from principles, is used

to prove scientific theories

V. Sir Isaac

Newton

“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the

shoulders of giants.”

Law of Gravity

•There is a force of attraction between objects that is related to their mass and that the force increases as objects moves closer together

Newton•Provided mathematical proof of Galileo’s observations

VI. Medical

Improvements

A.Scientific Instruments

•Microscope

•Mercury barometer

•Thermometer

B. Medicine and the Human

Body

1. GalenGreek physician whose work had

dominated medicine in the Middle Ages

GalenDissected pigs and other animals and assumed the human body would be similar

A Medieval Post-Mortem Examination Post-mortem examinations were rare in the Middle

Ages, in part due to religious and intellectual scruples. This early representation (c. 1300) of a dissection

shows a surgeon and a monk

2. Vesalius•Made accurate drawings of the human anatomy that corrected some of Galen’s errors

3.Harvey•showed the heart acted like a pump

4. Edward Jenner•Jenner discovered that inoculation with germs from cowpox gave permanent protection from small pox

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II.The Enlightenment

A. Hobbes• People w/out government

would constantly fight

• Best government is one of Absolute Power

• People gave up rights to a ruler who guaranteed peace and order

Hobbes

•Published Leviathan (1651)

Leviathan =

Ruler

Leviathan•argued for a Social Contract- people gave up their rights to a strong ruler in exchange they would gain law and order

B. John Locke•Self-government

•believed people were reasonable and could learn from mistakes

• therefore absolute monarch not necessary

* People born with natural rights from God- not from King* Government’s job to protect

•Life

•Liberty

•Property

C. Paris

•City where Enlightenment took root

D.Philosophes•French term for Philosopher

•Social critics, believed they could apply reason to all aspects of life

E. Three Key

Philosophes

1. Voltaire • 1) against the

power of the nobles

• 2) reduce the power of the church

• 3) freedom of press speech and religion

2. Montesquieu

Wrote : Spirit of Laws

• Government should not put all the power in the hands of one man

• Separation

of powers

• Checks and

balances

3. RousseauThe only good

government is one that is freely formed by the people and guided by

“general will” of society

“Man is born free and everywhere in chains”

•Man is born basically

• good and is

• corrupted

• by society

F. Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences

• Sum of knowledge considered important by enlightened thinkers

• *36 volumes• 11 of which• were pictures

“Enlightened Monarchs”• Most of Europe

ruled by absolute monarchs

• Receptive to Enlightenment ideas

• Instituted new laws and practices

Enlightened Monarchs

• Frederick II, Prussia

• Catherine the Great, Russia

• Maria Theresa, Austria

• Joseph II, Holy Roman Empire

• Gustav III, Sweden

• Napoleon I, France

Frederick the Great (ruled 1740–1786)

• Prussian ruler

• Had a strong interest in Enlightenment works

• Induced Voltaire to come to Prussia

Frederick the Great (continued)

• Wanted to make Prussia a modern state

• Reforms

Painting titled “Frederick the Great and Voltaire.”

Catherine the Great(ruled 1762–1796)

• Russian ruler

• Well-versed in Enlightenment works

• “Westernizing” Russia

Catherine the Great(continued)

•Domestic reforms

•Peasant revolt

Maria Theresa (ruled 1740–1780)

• Austrian ruler• Government

reforms• The serfs• Son—Joseph II

Joseph II (ruled 1765–1790)

• Ruled as coregent with his mother until 1780

• Joseph’s reforms• Religious toleration• Control over the

Catholic Church• Abolition of

serfdom

The Legacy of the Enlightenment• Government• Society• Education• American Revolution and

French Revolution

The signing of the U.S. Constitution