Transcript Overview of the 16th Century

OVERVIEW OF THE 16TH
CENTURY
NOTES
¿DO YOU REMEMBER?
• What did the Trojan War have to do with piracy?
• What happened to Caesar? (Identify the
inaccuracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmUrTVbxUo)
• Were the Vkings raiders or settlers?
• Who were the wokou?
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY OF THE 16TH
CENTURY
• China
• Trade bans and merchants as pirates
• Printed money, bronze coins, and silver
• Boatloads of money: Spanish Empire trade in the Pacific
• The Americas
• 1545: Diego Gualpa/Hualpa and the biggest silver strike in history (ore
ledge of 300 feet long, 13 feet wide, 300 feet deep, 50% silver content)
• Potosí, the silver town, and Huancavelinca, the mercury mine (mercury
used to purify silver ore): violence, “organized crime,” and exploitation
• 60 years of frenzied production: explosion in the money supply,
inflation, financial instability
• Europe
• The Spanish silver peso—”a piece of eight” (1 peso = 8 reales)—
becomes universal currency; main currency in the Portuguese, Dutch,
and British Empires, widely used in France and the German states
• Silver linked to:
• The revolts against Spain in the Netherlands and Portugal
• The Fronde civil war in France
• The Thirty Year War
TIMELINES AND LIFESTYLES
• European culture, art, science and history, 16th century:
http://www.fm.coe.uh.edu/timeline/1500s.html
• The conquest of the Americas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fniD67Z4ME
• Industry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzJer4omFgs
• Fashions, framing of gender (Women of the 16th Century):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ7CNNGEsfk
• Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbsY-6SUH6k
MAP OR EUROPE
The rise of monarchical nation-states, 1500-1700
SHORT LIST OF HIGHLIGHTS
(PUT THESE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)
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Michelangelo creates David, and paints the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet
Copernicus establishes that the Earth orbits the Sun
The Inquisition persecutes conversos (Jews converted to Christianity)
in Spain
Hernán Cortés takes over the Aztec Empire
Henry VIII establishes the Church of England
Start of the Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther’s 95 Thesis
Start of the Dutch Revolt
Battle of Lepanto
Elizabeth I defeats the Spanish Armada
Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe to Juan Diego in Mexico
Inventions:
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Flush toilet
Pocket watch
Bottled beer
Graphite pencil
SPANISH ARMADA: VIDEOS
• Discovery Channel documentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpG5E85W1ns
• Through the lens of humor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e23OnRapVg
LEARN MORE
• Battlefield Brittain series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl3stf20X10
• Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfWl0ZgK8E