FIRST GLOBAL AGE

RENAISSANCE

• In this time, it helped inspire the thirst of knowledge.
• For example , sea traveling
• Europeans supported by catholic church's and they wanted to spread
• There religion and religious beliefs and win converts to Christianity.

WESTERNIZATION

• The Spreading of European ideas and values
• Europe had been overshadowed by the ancient civilization of Asia.

ABSOLUTISM

• Rulers having absolute power over where they live.
• Between the 16th and 18th centuries, many monarchs centralized power..
• And authority under their ruler.

DIVINE RIGHT

• Monarchs believing that their right to rule came from god.
• In china, rulers had long claimed the Mandate of Heaven to support their ruler

COMMERCIAL REVOLTION

• The rapid expansion to Europe of trade and commerce
• In the 18th century Europe was rising due to this revolution.

CAPITALISM

• All resources privately owned and markets determined how they were distruted.
• Britain and holland devised a new method of banking and business which led to capitalism.

SECULAR

• This is a non-religion based on concerns of the world
• During this era, new ways of looking at the world swept Europe.

CONQUISTADORS

• Spanish conquerors of the Americas
• Defeated the Aztec and Inca empires and brought millions of Indians
• Under control.

MESTIZOS

• People of mixed European and Native American ancestry
• This was a social class in the Spanish colonies and was under the white colonist.

INFLATION

• A increase of money supplies meaning rising prices.
• Britain and holland, prospered despite inflation because they invested wisely.

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• Transfer plants, animals and diseases between the eastern and Western Hemisphere
• Europeans took many American foods back to the old world.
• This exchange between the two is known as the columbian exchange.

GREAT DYING

• Diseases brought over from Europe causing the devastation of American Indian pop.
• Scholars estimated that during the 16th century 50% of the native population killed, leaving ten million.

HUMANISM

• Philosophy emphasizing the worth of the individual and balancing religious faith with secular learning
• Artists and thinkers of the Renaissance revived classical art and culture and helped shape new view.

REFORMATION

• 16th and 17th centuries that split the Catholic Church and gave birth to the Protestant religion.
• By the encouraging new ways of thinking the Renaissance helped pave the way if the reformation.
• It began in 1517 with the actions of Martin Luther, a German monk and teacher.

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

• The shift in thinking about the study of nature and moved beyond religious teaching.
• After the new ways of thinking for reformation, it formed another way of thinking but to study the study natural world.

ENLIGHTENMENT

• Scientific methods to the study of society and the problems.
• Enlightenment undermined the rule of kings
• European monarchs were drawn to this and tried to govern according to its principles.

WHAT CHANGED THE WORLD MORE BETWEEN 1400 & 1800- TRADE, TRAVEL, WEAPONRY

BETWEEN 1400 & 1800 THE THING THAT CHANGED A LOT WAS THEIR IDEAS IN

THEY STARTED AT REFORMATION AND FROM THERE IT KEPT PROGRESSING AND GIVING

SO OVER ALL IDEAS ARE WHAT CHANGED THE WORLD MORE THAN MOST OF THE OTHERS.