Renaissance, Reformation, & Exploration
Vocabulary
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Cause & Effect
Trivia
100
This movement renewed interest in classical learning, art, and literature in Europe.
What is the Renaissance?
100
A person who gives money or support to an artist, church, organization, or cause.
What is a patron?
100
Artists of the Renaissance created famous works such as the ______ Chapel.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
100
Wealthy patrons supported artists, writers, and scholars, which helped this spread.
What are Renaissance art and learning?
100
English Protestants who wanted to further reform the Church of England were called this.
Who were the Puritans?
200
This religious movement challenged Catholic teachings and practices and led to new Protestant churches.
What is the Reformation?
200
To travel completely around the world or around a large landmass.
What is circumnavigate?
200
Religious reformers debated whether people were ______, meaning their fate had already been determined.
What is predestined?
200
Challenges to Catholic teachings and practices led to this major religious result in Europe.
What is the creation of new Protestant churches and divisions within Christianity?
200
These Europeans crossed the Atlantic before Columbus.
Who were the Vikings?
300
European sailors pushed farther into the Atlantic partly because they wanted direct trade routes to this region.
What is Asia?
300
A Spanish colonial labor system that gave colonists control over Indigenous labor and tribute.
What is encomienda?
300
Spanish colonies used religious ______ as one type of settlement.
What are missions?
300
European exploration exposed distant populations to diseases for which they often lacked this.
What is immunity?
300
This famous set of trials in New England reflected fear and conflict in colonial society.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
400
This elected institution in Virginia helped begin a legislative tradition in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
400
A system in which enslaved people are treated as property that can be bought and sold.
What is chattel slavery?
400
Later navigators used ______ to estimate their position while traveling.
What are astrolabes?
400
Atlantic exploration connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas, but also expanded this institution dramatically.
What is slavery?
400
This English document became an important source of ideas about English rights.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
Exploration linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas through trade, migration, conquest, and this coercive system of labor.
What is forced labor?
500
A legislature with two separate houses or chambers.
What is bicameral?
500
Colonists remained politically connected to ______ in England.
What is Parliament?
500
Exploration and colonization created colonies and expanded trade, but had this major effect on Indigenous societies.
What is disruption through conquest, forced labor, and disease?
500
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What is the Mason-Dixon Line?