Renaissance
The Last Supper, which is an excellent example of perspective in art, was painted by which Renaissance artist?
Leonardo da Vinci
This is the figurehead and leader of the Catholic Religion.
The Pope
Peter the Great used his absolute authority to force a number of progressive educational, financial, and political reforms to this country, in an attempt to imitate the West.
Russia.
Motives for exploration (and describe each one!)
God - spreading religion
Glory - fame for self and country
Gold - $$$
Nickname for the Enlightenment
Age of Reason
Carrier of the Black Plague
Fleas
This German priest was the figurehead of the Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther
How Louis XIV controlled the French nobility to rule alone.
Distracting them with court games and entertainment at Versailles.
The global exchange of plants, animals, and diseases.
Columbian Exchange
John Locke believed that people were born with these, and highlighted these three of utmost importance.
Natural Rights; life, liberty, and property.
The study of the capabilities and accomplishments of mankind
Humanism
Invention which increased literacy throughout Europe and allowed reformation ideas to spread.
The Printing Press
Leaders who had total authority over their subjects were known as this.
Absolute Monarchs
Christopher Columbus was searching for a water route to this continent, but instead found...
Asia, the Americas/West Indies
During the Enlightenment era, people were interested in doing this to their leaders and governments.
Questioning authority and changing how government worked.
Who was the author of The Prince, and what did he not concern himself with when describing ideals for leadership?
Machiavelli and morality.
Controversially, a person could buy these from the Catholic Church during the Renaissance era. What did they supposedly do for those who purchased them?
Indulgences, remove their sins.
Absolute Monarchs, who believed that they were ordained by God, ruled by this doctrine/idea.
Divine Right to Rule
Approximately 24 million enslaved Africans were forcibly brought to America on this stage of the Triangle Trade, also known as...
2nd Stage, Middle Passage.
John Locke's writing on life, liberty, and property inspired this document.
Creator of The Birth of Venus.
Sandro Botticelli
Bibles were written in this language before the Reformation.
Latin
These caused the French people to long for a strong leader who would bring order to France.
This explorer, sailing for Spain, was the first person to circumnavigate the globe.
Galileo Galilei was forced to give up, or recant, his findings about this theory (originally published by Copernicus) by the Catholic Church.
Heliocentric Theory
Artworks like The Birth of Venus or School of Athens highlight Renaissance Era interest in the classical stories of these two societies.
Ancient Greece and Rome.
Modern name for the church founded by King Henry VIII.
Anglican Church
King James II compared the authority of Kings, which he believed came from God, to the authority of...
Fathers
Most enslaved people were taken to this South American country.
Brazil
This philosophe believed that governments needed to be separated into these three branches to avoid tyranny.
Montesquieu; Legislative, executive, judicial