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Christopher Columbus
Who was the Italian explorer who opened up the 'New World' to Europe by sailing across the Atlantic in search of a route to Asia?
"Columbus sailed the ocean blue"
What is 1492?
Renaissance term definition
What is the historical period which means 'rebirth'? This period is characterized by a rebirth of classical art and literature, melded with the medieval church tradition.
The Plague likely got to Europe this way
What is Mongol invasions bringing disease from the East and trade ships with rats bringing it further into Europe?
A catalyst for the Age of Exploration
What was the European desire to find better trade routes to southern Africa, India, and Asia?
Joan of Arc
Who was the peasant girl (martyred in 1431) whose conviction that God had sent her to save France did in fact help France win the 100 Years' War?
Black Death's first appearance in Western Europe
What is 1347?
Humanism term definition
What was the literary and linguistic movement of the Renaissance which was founded on a revival of Latin and Greek texts, styles, and values?
Death toll in first wave
What is about 35 million in 3 years or 1/3 European population?
Columbus first landed here during his initial voyage
What is the Bahamas (particularly Cuba/Hispaniola)?
Francisco Petrarch
Who was the Italian poet whose revival of classical authors' style earned him the title: 'father of Renaissance humanism'?
Dates for the Hundred Years War
What is 1337-1453?
Importance of patrons to the Renaissance
Great artists and architects were sponsored by patrons (secular and clergy) who funded their work and commissioned pieces?
Symptoms of the disease according to Boccaccio
What are: (1) swelling 'buboes' in arm pits/groin, (2) spreading of buboes throughout body, (3) black or purple spots on skin, (4) sometimes nose bleeds, (5) sometimes fever, (6) usually death within three days
Three most prominent peoples conquered in the Central and South Americas
Who were the Maya, Inca, and Aztecs?
Hernan Cortes
Who was the Spanish explorer who captured the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City) in 1519?
Period of the Renaissance
What is the late 14th – early 17th centuries?
Architectural innovations in the Renaissance
What was a revival of classical style in architecture and particularly the innovation of domes without visible supports (like the duomo of the Florence Cathedral)?
Name three attempted solutions or reactions to the Plague
What are (1) medicine, (2) quarantines, (3) prayers, (4) self-flagellation, (4) starving or gorging, (5) pagan medicine or folklore, (6) blaming Jews, (7) debauchery?
Goals of many explorers in the 'New World'
What was the desire to find gold, subjugate the native people, and spread Christianity?
Medici Family + 2 prominent members
Who was the ruling family in Florence for much of the 15th-17th centuries? They gained money and influence through banking. Cosimo de'Medici was the founder and Lorenzo the Magnificent was the patriarch of the family at its most powerful.
Age of Exploration
What is the late 15th – 17th centuries?
Name 5 Renaissance artists
Who are (1) Ghiberti (2) Michelangelo (3) Raphael (4) Leonardo Da Vinci (5) Sandro Botticelli (6) Giotto (7) Fra Angelico (8) Donatello (9) Hieronymus Bosch (10) Albrecht Dürer (11) Titian (12) Caravaggio ?
Name at three lasting, cultural effects of the Plague
What are:
(1) Shortages of food and goods
(2) Workers in cities and peasant farmers in rural areas could demand higher wages and lower rents
(3) Political polarization and revolts
(4) Increased obsession with the macabre in literature and art
Name at least three consequences of European exploration
What is (1) new era in slavery, with slaves increasingly taken from Africa, (2) enslavement of native populations in the Americas (3) roots of modern racism through African slavery (4) new foods [potatoes, corn, coffee, tomatoes, chocolate, etc] in Europe, (5) division of the 'New World' between Spain and Portugal, (6) globe circumnavigated by Magellan, (7) near annihilation of native peoples through war and diseases like small pox