Post on 21-Apr-2020
STANDARD WHII.6f
The student will demonstrate knowledge of scientific, political, economic, and religious changes during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries by
f) describing the expansion of the arts, philosophy, literature, and new technology.
Scientific Revolution
English Civil War Restoration
& the Glorious Revolution
Absolutism
Enlightenment (Age of Reason)
The Influence of the Age of Revolutions
French Revolution
Essential Understandings
The sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries brought many changes in the arts, literature, and political philosophy.
The Age of Reason witnessed inventions and innovations in technology that stimulated trade and transportation.
The Enlightenment had side effects!
Cultural Effects!
The sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries brought many changes in the arts, literature, and political philosophy.
The “Age of Reason” witnessed inventions and innovations in technology that stimulated trade and transportation.
Many new composers (musicians), artists, philosophers, and writers popped up with brand new styles.
New forms of music were created!
Johann Sebastian Bach: composer
German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist who created sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments
His style of music was called Baroque
Johann Sebastian Bach: composer
German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist who created sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments
His style of music was called Baroque
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Classical composer
He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
He composed over 600 works
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Classical composer
He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
He composed over 600 works
New ideas of government evolved
Voltaire: Philosopher
New forms of literature evolved, such as the novel
New forms of literature evolved, such as the novel
Novel
A book dedicated to telling a story
Miguel de Cervantes: Novelist
Cervantes wrote the book Don Quixote
It has been considered one of the greatest books ever written
Miguel de Cervantes: Novelist
It is a story of a man who is a little crazy and fights windmills!
Painting depicted classical subjects, public events, natural scenes, and living people (portraits).
Eugène Delacroix: Painter (transition to the Romantic School of painting)
La liberté guidant le peuple
Eugène Delacroix: Painter (transition to the Romantic School of painting)
La liberté guidant le peuple « Liberty leading the people »
Eugène Delacroix: Painter (transition to the Romantic School of painting)
Hamlet
New technologies were invented
•All-weather roads improved year round transport and trade.
New technologies were invented
•Improvements in ship design lowered the cost of transport.
New technologies were invented
•A new Agricultural Revolution!
New technologies were invented
•A new Agricultural Revolution!
•Enclosure System
New technologies were invented
•A new Agricultural Revolution!
•Enclosure System • It used to be that many
people had access to the same land
• This was not healthy for the land and wasteful
• Enclosing the land allowed for much greater efficiency
New technologies were invented
•A new Agricultural Revolution!
•Enclosure System • It used to be that many
people had access to the same land
• This was not healthy for the land and wasteful
• Enclosing the land allowed for much greater efficiency
New technologies were invented
Enclosure System
Fence off the land, trust it to one person, and the fields could be put to better use.
•A new Agricultural Revolution!
•Selective Breeding - mating two animals with particularly desirable characteristics
New technologies were invented
•A new Agricultural Revolution!
•Three-field crop rotation allows for the replenishment of soil nutrients
•Two fields planted
•One field left empty
New technologies were invented
New technologies were invented
•A new Agricultural Revolution!
•New designs in farm tools increased productivity.
New technologies were invented
•A new Agricultural Revolution! •New designs in farm tools
increased productivity. •Mechanization • Jethro Tull • Invented a mechanical seeder •Redesigned the horse drawn
plough • Invention of steam powered
ploughs
Essential Questions
Who were some composers, artists, philosophers, and writers of the period?
What improved technologies and institutions were important to European economies?