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European Exploration & Conquest 1450-1650

European Exploration & Conquest 1450-1650. Chapter 15. Changes in Attitudes & beliefs. Ongoing economic, religious and social change Exploration & conquest Religious conflicts Intellectual & artistic excitement New ideas, artistic forms and genres Race Africans

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European Exploration & Conquest 1450-1650

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  1. European Exploration & Conquest 1450-1650 Chapter 15

  2. Changes in Attitudes & beliefs • Ongoing economic, religious and social change • Exploration & conquest • Religious conflicts • Intellectual & artistic excitement • New ideas, artistic forms and genres • Race • Africans • Christian theological writings • Medieval Arab sources – disparagement of Africans • Physical features • Heathen religions • Cultural primitiveness • Accounts written by Euro slavers & travelers – 16th & 17th C • Prejudices were used to justify slavery & the imposition of Christianity • Slavery reinforced notions of African inferiority

  3. Changes in Attitudes & beliefs • Elizabethan Literature • Philip Sidney – poetry • Edmund Spenser – poetry • Christopher Marlowe – playwright • William Shakespeare – playwright • Reflected Ren values of individualism & humanism • Growing Eng nationalism • Histories – written the decade after the defeat of the Spanish Armada • The Tempest – exploration of colonialism • Jacobean Literature • During the reign of James I • King James Bible– the Authorized Version • a new translation prompted by Protestant commitment for lay people to read the Scriptures in the vernacular

  4. AP Tip Many AP questions ask you to make evaluations or comparisons. In such essays, be sure you take a position, develop a thesis and defend it with evidence, not just answer the question with lists of the important facts involved.

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