European Monarchies & State-Building (14.1)
This 1492 event unified Spain and strengthened its monarchy.
Reconquista
Italian Renaissance thinkers focused on this, emphasizing human potential.
humanism
This German inventor created a printing press that spread ideas widely.
Johann Gutenberg
Capital of the Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlán
The year Columbus sailed to the Americas
1492
Monarchs in France, Spain, and England increased royal power after 1450 through this.
centralization of government / centralized monarchies
Author of The Courtier, teaching nobles how to act and achieve personal excellence.
Baldassare Castiglione
Northern Renaissance artists like Dürer and the van Eycks focused on this type of subject.
religious themes and everyday life
The Aztec system requiring conquered people to pay goods or labor.
tribute system
Spain’s completion of this campaign gave them confidence to explore overseas.
Reconquista
Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored this explorer’s 1492 voyage
Christopher Columbus
This artist painted the Mona Lisa and designed inventions ahead of his time
Leonardo da Vinci
This type of paint, developed in the North, allowed more detail and durability.
oil paint
This Inca labor system required work on roads, farms, or state projects.
mita system
European exploration introduced this global economic activity involving the Americas.
colonization/trade in the Americas
The creation of standing armies and tax systems in Europe is an example of this process
state-building
This political thinker wrote The Prince, advising rulers to maintain power by any means.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Humanist ideas in Northern Europe influenced thinkers such as this author of Utopia.
Thomas More
The Inca used this tool of knotted strings to keep records.
the quipu
How did the Renaissance indirectly influence European exploration?
humanism encouraged curiosity and innovation in navigation and science
A similarity between European monarchies and the Inca Empire in terms of control over people.
using systems to control subjects (taxes/armies vs. mita labor)
The Renaissance shifted European culture from purely religious to this type of focus.
secular/human-centered focus
How did the printing press change European society?
it spread literacy and ideas, including Renaissance and Reformation concepts?
A similarity between the Aztec and Inca empires in controlling subjects.
organized labor/tribute systems for centralized control
Compare European and American systems of control over people and resources.
Europe used centralized governments and armies/taxes, Americas used tribute and labor systems