The humanism began in Italy and slowly spread to the rest of europe
Rich families such as the Medici family supported artists, also rich families were members of important royal places
Humanism was supported by people such as Erasmus, Thomas More and William Shakespeare
many people felt uncomfortable because of the practices of the Catolic church so they decided to start the reformation
Angilican and Lutherian churches started with this movement
The Catolic church started the Counter Reformation to stop this spreading
Europe Explores New Ideas and Places
Scientists during the renaissance started using their brain and used the scientific method to confirm their theories
Copernicus and Galleo used this method to proved that planets moved around the sun.
Issac Newton discovered the law of gravity witch explains why planets stay in their position and why objects fall
In france and Rusia the King held and absolute power and could do anything they wanted.
Louis XV made the Palace of Versailles to get built
Queen Elizabeth was a great ruler and governed during the Elizhabethan Age
England rejected the idea of an absolute ruler
Europeans wanted an all water route to Asia so the made trips and discovered new places
Spanish and Portuguese claimed lands in the all new discovered America
Europeans in the
Americas
Hernán Cortés sailed to actual Mexico in search for gold
Cortés defeated the Aztec because of illness and because other groups joined cortés to defeat them
Pizzarro defeated the Inca empire and killed their leader
Spanish brought new diseases to the Americas and Native americans had no immunity
The english also wanted territory so they settled 13 colonies in what now is known as USA
The French also wanted lands in north america and they settled New France
Native americans tried to Defend their territory but at the end the lost it
African kingdoms and the slave trade
The Ashanti states united and made a confederation
They lived in large families
They belived that animals and plants had souls
The kingdom of benin belibed everyone had a personal god
The people of kongo were first kind to the portuguese but portuguese didn´t and then they attacked
this led to a civil war and the portuguese won
Portuguese kindnapped african people to use them as slaves
Portuguese started the european
slave trade
The need of workers at the tobbacco sugar and cotton plantations in the americans led to a nececity for more slaves
African were kidnapped or taken or sold from their natal homes and crowded very tightly into ships
This extremly brutal trip was called The Middle Passage in witch 1 of free passengers survived
The system of the triangular trade used slaves to work for plantations in America and then the result was
sold to europe and europe bought slaves and the cicle continued
Asian empires gain power
The ottoman empire was one of the greatest empires in history , it was HUGE
The Ottomans made their slaves Janissares who where elite army
Safavids were Shi'ite muslims and only believed that a Muhammads descendant could rule
Safavids became world famous because of their amazing and very
expensive Persian carpets
Muslims got to rule india in 1526
that started the Mughal Empire
Akbar(a Mughal ruler) was one of the greatest rulers in history
shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal to put his wife´s tomb and remember her
The Mughal Empire weakened and Europeans started taking control of india
Ming dynasty started in China
The emperor believed that Chinese villages should be self-sufficient and they don´t needed foregein trading
China sent expeditons to the world to show their power
During the Ming dynasty,the forbidden city was built and that was because only a selected group of people could get in
The Manchu took over the forbidden city and sat up the Qing Dynasty
The Tokugawa shogunate took part in Japan
The shogun used an strategy to make daimyo
be loyal to him
The Shoguns believed in isolationism and Japan
was cut off from the rest of the world during their
rule
The kabuki was a type like of japanese play
Age of revolutions
The french and indian war let many economic and personal losts to the Americans
The British wanted to abuse of colonists and made them pay for the war
British put a lot of taxes to the
Colonists but colonists disagree and
started treating bad the british
War for independence started and in 1776 Thomas Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of Independence and America was at last a free country
In France, Louis XVI was a weak king
The population was divided in 3 states and the third one had almost no rights
The third state created its own National Assembly and then the frenc revolution started
The reign of terror started and many people were killed by the guillotine, including the King and Queen
After the reign of terror, Napoleon came to power. He won a
lot of territory but he lost his last battle at waterloo and was
sent to an island
Latin americans inspired by the other
revolutions they wanted to be free too.So
they started an independence
The first latin American independent
country was Haiti freed by
Toussaint-loverture
Mexico won its independence in 1821
Simón Bolívar won the nickname of the libertator because
he freed what became the nations of
Colombia,Venezuela,Ecuador and Panama.
The industrial revolution
During the industrial revolution people started using machines instead of tools
The textile industry had great improvements
New steamboats improved water transportation
George Stephenson created the worlds first railroad train
The telephone and the electric bulb were created by alexander graham Bell and Thomas Edison
The development of the internal combustion led to cars and plains
Industrial revolution improved many peoples standard of living
Dirty and dangerous work conditions led to labor unions and new laws
Urbanization began and caused many problems
Karl Marx started communism
Growth of Nationalism
European leaders met at the congress of vienna
Strong nationalism made Italy unite
The german states joined in a single country which will later would later be one of the most powerful nations in europe
Great Britain grew HUGE
They had Canada, Australia and New Zealand
and they gave them self rule but still
controlled them
United states won new territories
They gained louisiana
They fought in war against Mexico and won Texas
Millions of americans and immigrants moved into these new lands
Native americans were forced to leave their homes
Civil war started but the north of USA won and Lincoln made changes to the constitution to end slavery and gave african Americans more rights
Austria had many nationalities within its borders
The Hungarians fought with Austria and formed Austria-Hungary
The Ottoman empire had become weak, it lost most of the big original territory it had
Rusia extended but remained being weak in many ways
Russians lost the Crimean War (fight to control Palestine)