Age of Exploration
Motivations to explore
Spices and luxury goods from Moluccas ( spice island)
Ottoman and Italian traders = middle men
Renaissance Curiosity
Scientific revolution + trade gives tools to explore
Convert people to christianity
What are the 2 types of renaissances
Northern, and Southern
When did the Medieval Crisis happen, what year?
1300's
How did Sir Issac Newton contribute to the scientific revolution
creating the theory of gravity
creating calculus
creating the three laws of motion
What was in the Indes
Spices and luxury goods from Moluccas ( spice island)
Where did the renaissance begin
Italy
Beginning around 1300, europe began to cool
Less crops
More difficult winters
These are all examples of ?
The little ice age
Identify a cause of the Scientific Revolution
Printing Press, Renaissance, Trade with the Middle east etc.
An Italian explorer that knew earth was a sphere, Didn't understand the size of the earth, Thought he'd reached the Indies, but was in the Caribbeans
Christopher Columbus
Italy grew wealthy from Trade
The crusades sparked interest in trade and the outside world
Wealthy families had more disposable income
Curiosity
Arrives in Europe in 1347 vis trade
Kills ⅓ of population in europe
Bacteria infection spread by fleas on rats
Will resurge in Europe again and again
Are all examples of?
The Black Plague
How did the movable type printing press contribute to the spread of the scientific revolution?
Books became cheaper -> more books -> more people became literate -> ideas spread more easily
Portuguese explorer that found a route around South America, Insisted on sailing to the Indies, then later died in the Philippines
Ferdinand Magellan
Define the difference between the Northern and Southern Renaissance.
The Northern Renaissance had more secular art and more theological thinking.
The Southern renaissance had more religious art and more humanistic thinking.
A lengthy war between England and France, that ends in an stalemate
The 100 year war
What are two impacts of the Scientific Revolution
Better medicine, Better navigation, better understanding of the universe, scientific method, modern science
Portuguese Navigator, that sponsored navigation, exploration and cartographers, and wanted to map Africa?
Prince Henry The Navigator
What is humanism
A philosophy of education that emphasizes the study of the Greek and Roman classics
What are impacts of the Medieval Crisis
Entire towns wiped out
Peasants began to question hierarchy - peasant Revolts
Worker shortages - rise in wages, economic mobility
Scapegoats - witch trials, people were murdered for being Jewish
Why was Galileo sentenced to house arrest?
He taught the Heliocentric model of the universe rather than the geocentric model.