Renaissance
He painted the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
He is considered the founder of the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
The Pilgrims were the first to settle in this colony
What is Massachusetts?
Columbus' first voyage reaches the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Hispaniola in this year
What is 1492?
The Atlantic slave trade took this geometric form
What is a triangle?
His political treatise The Prince argued that it is safer to be feared than loved.
Who is Machiavelli?
The Protestants of France were called this.
Who are the Huguenots?
This colony was founded as a refuge for persecuted Catholics.
What is Maryland?
The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement between Portugal and this rival country.
What is Spain?
The first plantations in the Americas were established to grow this crop.
What is sugar cane?
The de' Medici family ruled this Italian city-state.
What is Florence?
This Dutch Christian humanist wrote the satirical work In Praise of Folly.
Who is Erasmus?
The colony of Pennsylvania was founded primarily by people of this religious sect.
Who are Quakers?
Spanish explorers were seeking this precious metal in the Americas.
What is gold?
This port was responsible for 44% of France's slave trade.
What is Nantes?
Jan van Eyck pioneered the use of this type of paint
What is oil?
This theologian established a strict Protestant regime in Geneva.
Who is John Calvin?
The city of New York was first founded not by the English but by these Europeans.
Who are the Dutch?
This Portuguese explorer is the first European to sail around Africa to reach India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This island was France's most profitable slave colony
What is Haiti?
Translators in this Spanish city helped transmit ancient Greek and Arab learning to the Renaissance
What is Toledo?
Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the church door of this German city
What is Wittenberg?
This Anglican colony was named after England's Queen Elizabeth I.
What is Virginia?
Explorer Henry Hudson dies in this country while seeking a route to Asia.
What is Canada?
King Afonso of this African state pleads with the Portuguese king to stop the slave trade
What is Congo?