1. Chapter 17: Transformation of the West
AP World History

2. Protestant Reformation
1517: Martin Luther posted “95 Theses” on church door in Wittenberg, Germany
Protested Catholic Church’s use of indulgences, Latin Bible, celibacy for priests, idea of Pope
Luther is excommunicated
Luther believed salvation was obtained only through faith in Christ, NOT on following Church practices
Viewed Christian participation in commerce favorably
Luther’s ideas spread rapidly via prints

3. Results of Protestant Reformation
Spread of belief that salvation can be achieved through faith alone
Creation of new Protestant churches throughout Northern Europe and America
Supported culture of questioning of political/religious leadership
Papal power decreases  monarchs’ power increases
Desire to read Bible  Increase in literacy
Increase in status of women  promotion of love between husband and wife
Growing literacy and the spread of the printing press  spread of new religious ideas

4. Protestant Developments
Second Protestant Reformation: Henry VIII
Pope refused to annul first marriage to Catherine of Aragon as she had not produced a male heir
Jean Calvin: Calvinism
Pre-destination (God predetermined the people who will be saved)

5. The Catholic Reformation
Catholicism is threatened by sudden and extreme interest in Protestantism
Roman Catholic Church launches Counter Reformation or Catholic Reformation
Council of Trent, church assembly: abandon sale of indulgences
Goal: incite Catholic fervor into Europeans, assert personal relationship with Christ through Church
New missionary efforts
Jesuits: Americas and Asia

6. Religious divisions Protestantism changes politics in 16th c. Europe
Holy Roman Emperor remained Catholic, but German princes turned to Protestantism (resented power of Pope and HRE)
: Thirty Years War
Ends with Treaty of Westphalia

7. Absolute monarchy Characteristics Divine Right
Strong, professionalized army
High taxes to support wars
Utilize bureaucracies
King Louis XIV (reigned )
“I am the state”
Patron of the arts, Palace of Versailles
Stopped convening Estates-General (French parliament) and passed his own laws
Sent bureaucrats to provinces

8. Absolute monarchy, cont.
King Louis XIV, cont.
Created state-run manufacturing
Promoted internal economy to improve tax revenues for wars
Limited imports from other nations; uses colonies to provide raw materials
Absolute monarchies set up in Prussia, Spain, Austria-Hungary

9. parliamentary monarchy
Britain used a parliamentary monarchy
King shared power with representatives selected by the nobility and upper urban classes
: English Civil War
Assertion of Parliament’s power over the British monarch
Glorious Revolution of 1689
Overthrow of English King James II
Significance of Parliamentary Monarchy
Right of revolution
Monarchs should be restrained by institutions that protect public
Power of parliament over king
Political groups can compete for influence

10. Italian renaissance Vs. Northern Renaissance
Challenged medieval intellectual, religious values
Focused on humanism
City-states in Northern Italy
Northern Renaissance
Intense religious devotion
Artists travel to Italy
Detailed realism, focus on nature
Landscape/genre painting
1450: Johannes Gutenberg, invention of mechanical movable type printing press
France, Low Countries, Germany, England

11. Scientific Revolution
17th and 18th centuries: New ideas in science that laid foundations for modern scientific thought
Create laws for nature based off of Greek and Islamic science
Copernicus (Polish)
Disproves Ptolemy’s geocentric theory
Proves heliocentric theory
Galileo (Italian)
Confirms heliocentric theory using telescope
Observes motions of planets
Condemned by the Catholic church

12. Scientific Revolution, cont.
William Harvey (English)
Circulatory system powered by heart
René Descartes (French)
“Father of Modern Philosophy”
Skeptical of accepted learning
“I think, therefore I am”
Isaac Newton (English)
Defined forces of gravity
Basic principles of motion
Francis Bacon (English)
Empirical research: utilize observations, data

13. Scientific Revolution, cont.
Scientific institutes established to advance research
Growing belief that people could control and calculate environment
Insurance companies
Doctors attack healers, quacks
Deism: a god created the Earth, but its only role was to set natural laws in motion
Reconciles religion with science
The West becomes a leading center for science research

14. The Enlightenment Scientific Revolution led to the Enlightenment
Change in attitudes about politics, society, economics
Continued scientific advances
Basic Beliefs:
Human beings are good but can be educated to be better
Reason is the key to truth
Religions that rely blindly on faith and do not tolerate diversity are wrong
Began with philosophes (French philosophers) meeting in salons
Denis Diderot: editor of the Encyclopédie, compilation of knowledge

15. Political/economic enlightenment theories
Social contract: promoted by John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau
Governments must act on behalf of the people and through consent of the people
Scottish Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations(1776)
Laissez-faire economics
People act in self-interest but thrive through competition, promote economic advance
Government should avoid regulation in favor of the operation of individual initiative and market forces of supply and demand

16. Family changes
Religious change promoted greater concentrations on family life with Protestantism
Enlightenment encourages marriages based on love
Raises status of women
Later marriage ages
Change in attitude towards children
Emphasis on nuclear families
Limit family birth rates
Swaddling declined
Educational toys and books

17. Social protest 1450-1750 Beginning of the proletariat in the West
People without access to wealth-producing property
Population growth and rising food prices
Social tension; new ideas of equality
Witchcraft persecution,
60, ,000 suspected witches killed
New resentment against poor
Role of women? Religious tension?

18. commercial revolution
Protestantism viewed involvement in commerce more favorably than Catholicism
Inflation in western Europe caused by gold and silver imports
Production could not keep pace with wealth
Trading companies were backed by governments but unregulated
Specialty areas
Wine, cheese, wool, shoemaking, metalwork
Prosperity increased for ordinary people

19. Ongoing Change in commerce and manufacturing
Economic change
Commerce continued to spread
Europeans began to buy processed goods
Sugar, coffee, tea
Paid professional performers; shows excess money
Agricultural change
Draining swamps for more land
Seed-drills, use of scythes
Capitalism spread
Investments in hopes for larger profits
Domestic manufacturing