Life Wasn’t a Feast
This time period pre-dates the Middle Ages and greatly influenced the artists and philosophers of the Italian Renaissance.
What is the Classical Era (also except antiquity)
This 14th-century Florentine is considered the "father" of Humanism in Renaissance Italy.
Who is Petrach?
The similarities of the Italian and Northern Renaissance
What is Education & humanism?
(would also accept classics of antiquity)
This Spanish monarch helped unify Spain through his marriage to Isabella of Castile
Who is Ferdinand of Aragon?
Four reasons for Exploration?
What is gold, god, glory, and renaissance intellectual curiosity?
This refers to the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This long war between England and France resulted in England's loss of nearly all its French territories.
What is the Hundred Years War
This Renaissance figure wrote The Prince, a guide on political power
Who is Machiavelli?
This Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII wrote Utopia, a view of an ideal society based on Renaissance ideals.
Who is Thomas More?
This French king strengthened royal authority by
What is raising taxes and establishing national guard?
This conquistador subdued the Aztecs in 1521.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
This measured wealth in a country by how much gold and silver it accumulated.
What is Mercantilism?
Fleas on black rats caused this period of relative unhealthiness.
What is the Black Death?
From darkness to light describes..
What is the Renaissance?
This northern humanist wrote a powerful critique of Catholic Church abuses in In Praise of Folly.
Who is Erasmus?
This term describes monarchs who centralized power, reduced the influence of nobility, and established modern states.
What is New Monarchs?
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to find an all-water route to India.
Who is Vasca Da Gama?
In this enterprise, many investors buy shares which distributed the risk among holders rather than being limited to any individual investor.
What is Joint-stock Company?
This fixture of medieval society was involved in every aspect of any person's.
What is the Catholic Church?
Humanism of the Renaissance focused on this key aspect....(means non religious)
What is Secular?
This 15th century invention revolutionized communication and made new ideas much more widely available during the Renaissance.
What is the Printing Press?
Henry VII of England used this court to increase revenue and control nobles.
What is the Court of the Star Chamber?
A demographic disaster for the native peoples of the Americas were caused mostly by this
What is smallpox? (diseases)
What is the Price Revolution?
This philosophy placed a focus on following only church doctrine.
What is Scholasticism?
This powerful banking Florentine family could have boughten works of which artists?
Who are the Medici's? Who is Da Vinci or Michelangelo or Botticelli?
The biggest difference between the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance
What is the focus on Religion in the Northern Renaissance?
This Habsburg ruler controlled both Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, making him one of Europe’s most powerful kings.
Who is Charles V?
What were the main technological advancements that aided exploration during this period? (Name all of them)
What is Astrolabe, compass, caravel, improved cartography, lateen sails?
What major system of forced labor emerged during European exploration and colonization, drastically reshaping economies, societies, and populations across multiple continents?
What is African Slave Trade?