Timeline 16th17th century

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Timeline 16th-17th century

• Exploration and Expansion
• 1492 Columbus
• 1519 Magellan Cortez
• Literature
• 1550s Montaigne the essay
• Early 1600s Shakespeare
• Baroque
• Early 1600s Peter Paul Rubens
• Early 1700s Johann Sebastian Bach

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16th-17th Centuries Exploration, Racism,
Culture and the Baroque
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What are the implications involved in choosing
between the terms Age of Discovery Age of
Reconnaissance and Age of Expansion?
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Why early 16th century?

• Technological changes
• Political changes
• Religious zeal (Catholics especially)
• Leadership

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Why does Spain dominate for so long?

• Portugal leads the way
• Prince Henry the Navigator Bartholomew Diaz
  Vasco da Gama
• Isabella and Ferdinand
• Gold, God, Glory, Ground
• Columbus
• Cortes Pizarro
• I have come to win gold, not to plow the fields
  like a peasant (508).
• Magellan (Charles V)
• Quinto Inflation

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Age of Spain - Map
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American Racism

• Labor shortage
• Long history of African enslavement
• Renaissance and Arab views toward blacks

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The Essay - Montaigne

• I long had a man in my house that lived ten or
  twelve years in the New World, discovered in
  these latter days, and in that part of it where
  Villegaignon landed Brazil . . . . I find that
  there is nothing barbarous and savage in that
  nation, by anything that I can gather, excepting,
  that every one gives the title of barbarism to
  everything that is not in use in his own country.
  As, indeed, we have no other level of truth and
  reason, than the example and idea of the opinions
  and customs of the place wherein we live. (519)

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Shakespeare

• Excerpt from
• Merchant of Venice Act I, Scene III
• MacBeth Act VI, Scene VIII

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King James Bible

• Psalm 37 (in textbook, p. 521)

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Baroque

• Definition
• Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens

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Baroque Johann Sebastian Bach