The Renaissance
What country did the Renaissance begin in?
Italy
What was the Protestant Reformation?
A religious movement in the 1500s in Europe that created a new form of Christianity, Martin Luther created Protestantism/Lutheranism after seeing problems in the Catholic Church
TRUE or FALSE: Many early explorers were from Portugal.
TRUE
What was the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
Trade involving capture, transportation, and sale of enslaved people from Africa to the Americas.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Widespread transfer of plants, animals, disease and culture from the Old World to the New World.
What was one invention or discovery during the scientific revolution?
The living things are made of cells, earth revolves around the sun, telescope, improved making clocks, dissecting human bodies, microscope, gases, fire needs oxygen to burn, bacteria, The Scientific Method, printing press (and more)
Describe one issue Martin Luther had with the Catholic Church?
By settling in the Americas, Puritans were hoping to...
find religious freedom and escape poverty.
What was the Middle Passage?
The stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of Africans sold for enslavement were forcibly transported to the Americas; ship across the Atlantic Ocean
What was one good exported from the Old World?
Honeybees, bananas, citrus fruits, grapes, olives, onions, sugarcane, grains, pears, peaches, turnips, livestock and diseases
How did the invention of the printing press impact people at the time?
Books and reading became more accessible, things could be printed in bigger quantities, literacy increased
What happened to non-Catholics during the Spanish Inquisition?
Kicked out of the country, forced to convert, tortured and forced to confess to heresy
What was the Mayflower Compact?
Signed by Puritans settling in North America, declared that they can choose their own rulers and make their own laws in the New World
TRUE or FALSE: ONLY Africans were enslaved and forced to work on plantations in the Americas.
What was one good exported from the New World?
Avocados, beans, pumpkins, potatoes, quinine, cassava, cocoa beans, corn, squash, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peanuts, peppers, pineapples, turkeys, vanilla, and disease.
What did scientists in the renaissance do different than scientists before them?
What two groups was the 30 Years War between?
Protestants and Catholics
By colonizing the Americas, English rulers were hoping to...
What impact did colonization have on Native Americans?
90% killed of disease and violence, many were enslaved for labor
What was one negative consequence of trade from the Old World to the New World?
What are two key characteristics of the Renaissance?
Interest in Greek and Roman art, realism, challenging religious ideas, advances in technology
What church did King Henry VIII create after he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church?
The Church of England
By colonizing the Americas, Spanish rulers were hoping to...
Convert natives to Christianity, specifically Catholicism.
How did plantations in the Americas lead to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
Slave labor was used on plantations, when the majority of Native Americans died European plantation owners in the Americas used the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to buy and enslave a new labor force from Africa
Why did Europeans want to find a trade route to Asia BY SEA?
Direct trade would increase their profits and they would not have to travel through the Middle East