Western Civilization

CHAPTER TIMELINE CHAPTER REVIEW Upon Reflection Q How do you explain the emergence of the Scientific Revolution? Q What do we me ...

Scientific Revolution(New York, 2002);M. Sharratt,Galileo: Decisive Innovator(Oxford, 1994);M. Casper,Johannes Kep- ler, trans. ...

Glossary abbess the head of a convent or monastery for women. abbot the head of a monastery. absolutism a form of government in ...

Cold War the ideological conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II. collective farms large farm ...

Enlightenment an eighteenth-century intellectual movement, led by the philosophes, that stressed the application of reason and t ...

imperator. In the Roman Empire, the titleimperator(emperor) came to be used for the ruler. Impressionism an artistic movement th ...

mir a peasant village commune in Russia. mobilization the organization of troops and supplies for service in time of war. Modern ...

perioikoi in ancient Sparta, free inhabitants but not citizens who were required to pay taxes and perform military service. perm ...

Rococo an eighteenth-century artistic movement that empha- sized grace, gentility, lightness, and charm. Romanesque a term used ...

total war warfare in which all of a nation’s resources, including civilians at home as well as soldiers in the field, are mobili ...

Index Italicized page numbers show the locations of illustrations. Maps (map) and tables (tab.) are indicated separately. al-Abb ...

Archpoet,Confession of Golias, 215 Arena Chapel, Padua, 268 Arete(excellence), 53 Arian Christianity, 149–50, 152, 154 Aristarch ...

Bodin, Jean, 362 Body of Civil Law(Justinian), 212, 214 Boeotia, 49, 62 Bohemia: Austria and, 367; Christianity in, 190; Hussite ...

Centuriate assembly (Rome), 98, 99 Cereta, Laura, 285 Ceylon.SeeSri Lanka (Ceylon) Chaeronea, Battle of, 74, 76 Chaldeans, 31, 3 ...

Common law, in England, 223 Common people, science and, 400 Commonwealth, in England, 374 Communication(s): in Assyrian Empire, ...

Divination, 13 Divine and Human Readings(Cassiodorus), 162 Divine Comedy(Dante), 266–67 Divine-right monarchy, 362 Divinity: of ...

Estates-General, in France, 226 Este, Isabella d’, 280 Estonia, 369 Ethelbert (England), 159 Ethics, of Israelites, 32 Etruria, ...

Geometry: Archimedes and, 88; Sumerian, 14 Germania(Tacitus), 132 Germanic languages, 28, 29 (tab.) Germanic peoples: Christiani ...

Henry VII (England), 292–93, 333 Henry VIII (England), 312–13, 321, 322 Henry of Navarre, 320 Henry the Navigator (Portugal), 32 ...

and, 205.See alsoArt(s); Enlightenment; Humanism; Philosophy; Renaissance; Science(s); Scientific Revolution Interdict, 233 Inte ...