Headlines in history the 1500s
Introducing the 1500s as a period of great change, this book discusses European exploration, global scientific progress, hereditary monarchs, and religious conflict that spilled into the political realm.
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San Diego, CA
Greenhaven press
2001
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1
- Elizabeth I and Mary, queen of scots
- Battle of Lepanto: Last crusade
- Huguenots and catholics in France
- Russia and Ivan the terrible
- Freebooters and sea dogs: Pirates of the spanish main
- Henry VIII and Thomas More: Conscience versus politics
- Chapter 2
- Lost colony: Roanoke
- Singeing the King's beard: Exploits of Francis Drake
- Spanish Armada: Less than invincible
- Chapter 3
- Superstition and the sixteenth-century worldview
- Renaissance city life
- Pre-Shakespearean drama
- Apparel and attire
- Gregorian calendar
- Copernican revolution
- Shakespeare
- Chapter 4
- Michelangelo
- Renaissance painting
- Science, art, and the renaissance
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Chapter 5
- Church in 1500
- Justification by faith: Early lutheran thought
- Luther and the diet of worms
- John Calvin: Philosophy of protestantism
- Counter reformation
- Chapter 6
- Atlantic slave trade
- North African culture
- Suleyman the magnificent
- Japan and the west
- Mughal empire of India
- Expanding the menu
- Chapter 7
- Portuguese arrival in Brazil
- Magellan in the pacific
- Northeast passage: Search of the impossible grail
- Maps and atlases
- Chapter 8
- Massacre and siege
- End of empire
- Fall of the Inca.