Let's Go Exploring!
These three G's explain Europeans' motives for exploring.
God, gold, and glory
This former Augustinian monk believed that people attained salvation through faith alone.
Martin Luther
This was an intellectual movement in Italy based on the study of Greek and Roman classics.
Humanism
This is the name of Martin Luther's list of grievances against the Catholic Church.
Ninety-Five Theses
This woman married Ferdinand of Aragon and began the process of uniting Spain; she also worked with the Inquisition and sponsored Columbus's voyages.
Isabella of Castille
This Portuguese prince's navigational schools set in motion the Age of Exploration.
Prince Henry the Navigation
This Renaissance Man studied nature and human anatomy in order to realistically sculpt and paint his masterpieces.
Leonardo da Vinci
Humanists studied one of these five subjects.
Grammar, rhetoric, poetry, ethics, history
This is Niccolo Machiavelli's book of advice on how to govern effectively.
The Prince
This is the name given to the period of time from the late 14th to the early 15th centuries when there were two, and at one point three, popes.
Western Schism
Knowledge of these helped early European explorers sail long distances.
Ocean currents and/or trade winds
The stories of this man's travels throughout China generated renewed European interest in Asian wealth.
Marco Polo
Humanists believed that human beings could be dramatically changed by this.
Education
This was the book about books that the pope issued following the Council of Trent.
List of Prohibited (Banned) Books (Index Librorum Prohibitorum)
This was the document detailing the rights of English barons that King John was forced to sign in 1215.
Magna Carta
This Spaniard conquered the Aztecs.
Hernan Cortes
This French Protestant reformer believed in predestination.
John Calvin
This was an intellectual movement of the Italian Renaissance that held that humanists should be involved in government and use their rhetorical training in the service of the state.
Civic humanism
This Spanish Dominican friar wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in which he criticized the Spanish treatment of Native Americans.
Bartholomew de la Casas
Spain and Portugal are on this peninsula.
Iberian Peninsula
This was the agreement orchestrated by the pope that divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.
Treaty of Tordesillas
This Habsburg was the king of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as well as the Archduke of Austria and the Duke of Burgundy.
Charles V
This "Father of Humanism" was the first to characterize the Medieval period as the "Dark Ages."
Petrarch
This Italian who wrote The Book of the City of Ladies was the first woman to make her living as a writer.
Christine de Pisan
Greece is on this peninsula.
Balkan Peninsula