Explorers
100 This term means travelling to unknown or unfamiliar places to discover new information
What is exploration?
100 This Renaissance idea focused on the importance and potential of human beings.
What is humanism
This Enlightenment thinker argued that people have natural rights, including life, liberty and property.
Who is John Locke?
200 These are three reasons why people explored: wealth, trade, religion, curiosity, land, or power.
What are reasons for exploration?
200 This invention helped spread Renaissance and Enlightenment ideas more quickly across Europe.
What is the printing press?
This Enlightenment idea means that government power should be divided into branches.
What is separation of powers? (checks and balances)
300 This explorer wrote to the King and Queen of Spain about colonising Hispaniola and collecting gold.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300 This Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa and was also known for science and invention.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This philosopher argued for freedom of speech and criticised religious intolerance.
Who is Voltaire?
400 This exchange moved crops, animals, people, diseases and ideas between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Renaissance technique made paintings look more realistic and three-dimensional.
What is perspective?
This idea suggests that people agree to give up some freedom in exchange for protection by government.
What is the social contract?
500 This is one major negative impact of European exploration on Indigenous societies in the Americas.
What is disease, conquest, exploitation, slavery, or loss of land?
This writer argued in The Prince that rulers may need to be feared and act immorally to keep power.
Who is Machiavelli?
These three revolutions were influenced by Enlightenment ideas.
What are the American, French and Haitian Revolutions?