Renaissance
The revival of these sparked the beginning of the Renaissance.
What are classical Greek and Roman texts?
What is perspective and anatomical structure?
This war affected the economies and land of France and England before their revitalization.
What is the Hundred years war?
The motivations for Europeans to explore usually fell into one of these three categories.
What is Gold, God, and Glory?
This represented the connection of trade between Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
What is the Triangular Trade?
England and France established many plantations in the west indies. These plantation were almost exclusively worked by African slaves. Name at least 2 of the 4 main products that came out of the plantations in the West Indies.
The name of the treatise written by Machiavelli about gaining power.
What is The Prince?
This Italian renaissance artist made advancements in architecture.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
The French Monarchy grew under the rule of this king, known as "The Spider".
Who is Louis XI?
Italian explorer who was sponsored by the spanish government to sail west to find India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This resulted in Europe and the Americas swapping many native resources as well as diseases which decimated the native populations of the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This ideal prevailed in the renaissance and emphasized human achievement over spiritual things born out of the revival of Greek and Roman texts.
What is Humanism?
These three artists dominated the renaissance art scene during the height of the renaissance.
Who are Da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo?
Who is Henry VII?
This portuguese sailor was one of the first to sponsor explorations along the African Coast.
This major economic crisis saw inflation rates soar 2-3% per year in the 16th-17th centuries.
What is the Price Revolution?
This Northern Humanist writer argued that a good prince should be a living likeness of God.
Who is Erasmus?
This Italian Renaissance artist made great advancements in sculpting.
Who is Donatello?
These were the two rulers responsible for unifying spain together.
Who are Isabella and Ferdinand?
This Portuguese explorer was the first to successfully sail around the Cape of Good Hope on the Southern tip of Africa.
Who was Vasco de Gama?
Capitalism grew through the creation of these, allowing people to purchase shares in colonies and trading companies.
What are joint-stock companies?
A group of Northern European (German) coastal towns that facilitated trade and took business from the Italian cities.
What is the Hanseatic League?
All renaissance art employed this focus, which is the portrayal of humanity in the most realistic way possible.
What is Naturalism?
The Ottoman Turks defeated this last city of the Byzantine Empire in 1453.
What is Constantinople?
These types of spanish explorers were typically fueled by greed and religious zeal.
Who are the Spanish Conquistadors?
The basic principle for this economic system was that the wealth of the state was limited and must be preserved.
What is Mercantilism?
Who is Petrarch?
Northern renaissance focused on these two points of emphasis, making their art slightly different than their Italian contemporaries.
What is visual reality and details?
This early Church reformer pushed for the creation of vernacular bible and had a group of followers known as the Lollards.
Who is John Wyclif?
As monarchies grew stronger, they developed technologies such as this special sail which allowed ships to sail against the wind more effectively.
What is the Lateen Rig?
This trading Company saw a 30% return on investment in its first decade and revolutionized commerce in Southeast Asia.
What is the Dutch East Trading Company?
The man invented the printing press in 1450.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
What is Balance, Harmony, and Order.
These two Spanish states united to form one centralized government in 1479.
This was the system employed in the new world that gave Spain the right to collect tribute from Native populations in the New World and use them for labor.
What is the Encomienda system?
This farming practice saw farmer growing only enough for their own households plus paying rent.
What is subsistence farming?