Renaissance Fair
The Renaissance, but in more places than just Italy!
What is the Northern Renaissance
The worlds first joint stock corporation also stole the Indian spice trade from Portugal.
What is the East India company?
A tri-continental trade spurred on by slavery.
What is the triangular trade
In his book the prince, he stressed that it was better to be feared than loved.
Who is Machiavelli?
This monarch was famous for his six marriages and paranoia.
Who is Henry the VIII?
Petrarch is often cited as the father of this burgeoning Renaissance philosophy.
What is Humanism?
Isabella and Ferdinand got a quick start to exploration after removing Muslim influence from Spain during this century long event.
What is the Reconquista?
Forget money, this invention was the commodity of empire.
What is gunpowder?
Members of this family enhanced their own prestige through financing art during the Italian Renaissance.
Who are the Medici family?
Religious persecutions of non-Catholics in Spain.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
This art style can be described as grandiose, and often portrays biblical or mythological events.
What is Italian Renaissance art?
He lead the first expedition to Circumnavigate the world, but found his end in the Philippines.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
In this economic system, a country seeks to earn more gold and silver than they spend.
What is Mercantilism?
1492 was a busy year for these monarchs, they unified their country and funded a trans continental expedition.
The right to rule decided by God.
What is Divine Right?
This Renaissance Writer urged leaders to do "everything that will bring everlasting peace to his country, for he realizes that war is a source of all misfortunes to the state."
Who is Erasmus?
This effect of exploration was a cultural diffusion of goods, food and diseases.
What is the Columbian exchange?
Under this economic system Spanish colonists could enslave natives.
What is the encomienda?
Henry the IV solidified religious freedom in France with this law.
In this city, the Italian Renaissance began.
What is Florence?
In 1864 Abolitionist Wedndell Phillips wrote "what gunpowder did for war, [this Renaissance innovation] did for the mind."
What is the Printing Press?
The British Raj in India, Jamestown, and Spanish Mexico are all examples of this.
What are colonial empires?
This royal family pursued banking and political marriages to strengthen their nation during the Northern Renaissance.
Who are the Hapsburgs?
Adventurers, soldiers, explorers....
Who are conquistadors?
Using this accounting method, a businesses could now track how much they spend and how much they earn.
What is double-entry book keeping?