UGC 112 1st Edition Lecture 7 Outline of Current Lecture I Political Divisions in Europe II Decline of the Spanish Hapsburgs III The Reformation a Religious Divisions IV Contrast with Asia a China and Recovery Current Lecture I Political Divisions in Europe The map has different colors to show cutoffs boundaries Current events questions referendum in Scotland Since 1707 it s been part of Britain This is a long period of being together The Scottish wanted to separate Holy Roman Empire HRE Rome was never a part of the HRE Be able to identify obvious features within about 20 years II Decline of the Spanish Hapsburgs Overreach why o Expand too far and don t have the military resources to sustain it o Overconfidence The 1588 Armada o Spain sent Armada to re impose faith Only 1 5 of English ships were war ships Spaniards didn t navigate too well English were ready for them British had been engaging in piracy and fraud Dutch Revolts These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Holland vs Dutch This took the form again of religious division Protestant and Catholic If you go to the Netherlands and Belgium you find the same language spoken through the great majority of both III The Reformation o Salvation by faith alone o You are not saved by acts of confession contrition knowing scriptures saves you having faith in general is where the value is o His second point came in his academic background He was trained to be a lawyer Grew up in eastern part of Germany Lawyers love to argue Halloween 1517 he went to the church door 95 theses 95 questions for debate Something is off something is wrong this led to reexamining the faith To Luther the Bible was central o Bible Central o Translation Latin to German This translation set the standard for contemporary German o Nationalism His work helped to crystallize German nationalism because they could not understand bible Sacred Had something sacred to refer back to o Music part of the cultural changes during this time o a Religious Divisions On map present in slideshow Green for Protestants orange for Catholics yellow for Muslims eastern orthodox pale pink A Anglican C Calvinist L Lutheran M Muslims Ignatius of Loyola born in 1491 and he lived until 1556 Overlapping with time of Charles V Hundreds of billions of bouillon Wanted to stamp out heresy of Protestantism Church needed to re examine what it was doing The Jesuits were founded by Ignatius Counter Reformation o Spain s bankruptcy overspent on war Kept on trying to conquer France Successor was concerned with restoring England to faith Too much spending on the royal family Spain had problems then as it has had recently it is currently close to bankrupt IV Contrast with Asia Mughal empire were conquerors Military Might They spoke Persian They arrived by 1258 They practiced religious tolerance As Muslims they were a minority of population 20 percent maximum They ruled with the active cooperation of Hindu landlords The tolerance was something really significant British enter scene Calcutta o Traders from Portugal the Netherlands Britain the British were the most significant Over time they extended their rule over south Asia It took a couple of centuries but from 1603 when the British intrusion started independent for Pakistan and India 1947 British were there as a significant presence Ming Qing China Large population o Far more united Highly decentralized multilingual are of Southeast Asia There is a significant contrast here o Essay questions compare any two civ with respect to x Cultural Solidarity language importance of family and ancestors Region and dialect All of these were and remain important No Colonizer except in a few small areas Macau Portuguese area casinos there and Hong Kong Ming China The Mongols brought the Yuan dynasty to power then the plague devastated China and prepared the way for the emergence of the Ming dynasty a China and Recovery The Red Turban Movement blended China s diverse cultural and religious traditions Zhu Yuannzhang was trained during the time of the Red Turban Movement He was a commander and his forces defeated the Yuan and drove the Mongols from China He took the important city of Nanjing in 1356 and renamed it Yingtian Twelve years later in in 1368 Zhu proclaimed the founding of the Ming brilliant dynasty After taking over Beijing as well it took Zhu almost another twenty years to unify the entire country Timeline Portuguese establish Indian Ocean bases 1508 1511
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