Exploration
The 3 Gs that motivated European exploration.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
A true "Renaissance Man" he was gifted in science as well as art, but is perhaps best known for painting masterpieces such as The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leondardo da Vinci?
On October 31, 1517 he nailed his 95 these to a church door, launching the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
Massive transfer of animals, Crops, diseases, and people between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Renaissance political theorist who places the greatest value on stability and order.
Who is Machiavelli?
This European country was able to establish early domination of the spice trade after it expanded its trading outposts in Africa to Asia as well.
What is Portugal?
The Renaissance involved a rediscovery of these:
What are texts of Ancient Rome and Greece?
Under this man's leadership Geneva became essentially a religious theocracy in which banishment and execution were used to rid the city of heretics.
Who is John Calvin?
Portuguese establishment of large plantations of this crop Brazil was a major cause of the expansion of the Transatlantic slave trade.
What is sugar?
One of Italy's most powerful banking families, they both helped fund incredible artwork and found themselves in positions of power both in the Church and politics.
Who are the Medici?
While he did not survive to see it, the remaining members of his crew would become the first people known to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Practice by which wealthy merchants, Church leaders, or political rulers would pay artists and sponsor artworks.
What is patronage?
The year in which the printing press was invented:
What is 1450?
Potosi, Bolivia would be the world's largest producer of this, both fueling Spanish wealth and leading to massive inflation.
What is silver?
Henry VIII became head of the Church of England through this act of Parliament.
What is the Act of Supremacy?
Spanish King and Holy Roman Emperor that dreamed of reuniting Europe under Catholicism and also authorized Spain to transport slaves from Africa to the New World.
Who is Charles V?
The father of Christian Humanism.
Who is Erasmus?
Protestants believed that this alone could lead a soul to salvation.
What is faith?
A system by which the Spanish crown granted the conquerors the right to forcibly employ indigenous people in exchange for providing food, shelter, and Christian teaching.
What is the encomienda?
This family was the most powerful ruling family in the Holy Roman Empire and used strategic marriages to increase influence and territory to become a family dynasty of great international power.
Who are the Hapsburgs?
Conquistador who led the toppling of the Aztec empire in Mexico.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Englishman who wrote Utopia a satire where all Europe's problems had been solved and later found himself beheaded for refusal to support Henry VIII's leaving the Catholic Church.
Who is Thomas More?
Founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola this Catholic order sought to spread the faith through missionary work and became the leading source of Catholic education.
Who are the Jesuits?
The United Provinces of the Netherlands declared independence form Spain when they allied and formed this:
What is the Union of Utrecht?
Peasants expected the support of Luther, but failed to receive it, when launching this:
What is The German Peasants' War?