Renaissance
Name 2 explorers and where they explored.
Hernán Cortés, Christopher Columbus Magellan,
This family were wealthy patrons of the arts and artists of their time including Michelangelo.
The Medici's
Why did historians call it the Enlightenment?
Because it was a time period where reason and individualism was accepted as a way of thinking and acting.
The slave trade would financially benefit these countries.
Portugal, GB, the Dutch, the American colonies, central America.
This invention greatly increased the number of books and the ability for the population to read.
The Printing press
The Town Charter where the inhabitants of a town were given privileges under the feudal system can be considered one of the steps towards this..
democracy for the people
A philospher that promoted the belief that people had the right to life, liberty and property.
John Locke
Name 3 Absolute Monarchs
King Henry VIII, Louis (all of them), Catherine the Great, Philip II of Spain, Peter the Great etc.
He used a calculus to create a math equation explaining gravity
Issac Newton
What was the Divine Right of Kings?
That kings are appointed by God and no one should question their authority.
Two reasons why the Renaissance began in Italy
wealthy merchants and the locals could see the sculptures and the literature left behind from the ancient Romans
How can the crusades be called a success and a failure?
successful as they changed society for the better with new travel and trade
failure- many lives lost, did not regain the holy land.
Name two Enlightened Despots of the XVIII century.
Joseph II - Maria Theresa - Catherine the Great - Frederick II
The exchange of resources, knowledge, diseases, people between the new colonies in North American and the Old world (Europe) was called this.
The Columbian Exchange
The first Absolute Monarch to be beheaded and what country was he ruling at the time?
Charles I of England