Renaissance
What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
How did Catholics believe their churches should be decorated?
Heavily decorated
What does absolutism mean?
All power or unrestricted power
Who accidentally discovered the America by trying to sail to India?
Christopher Columbus
What was the disease that caused the Black Death?
Y-Pestis
What were the three cities of the Renaissance?
Milan, Florence, and Venice
Who was the Father of the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
Who did monarchs believe they were sent by?
God
What is the extension of power over one nation over the other?
Imperialism
What was Italy's geograpghy?
Peninsula
What were the four classes of the Renaissance?
Clergy, nobility, townspeople, and peasants
Who invented the printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
Why would King Louis XIV build his palace of Versailles amongst the poor?
To show power and wealth
What were the four things exchanged by the Columbian exchange?
Diseases, animals, plants, and people
What means to separate your country from alliances and other international political and econmic relations?
Isolationism
Why did education increase during the Renaissance?
Better jobs, printing press, or more books
Who was the King of England who broke from the Catholic Church?
Henry VIII
Who believed that people should follow absolute rulers unless their rulers take their natural rights away?
John Locke
What was the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade?
The exchange of Africans to the Americas
What does religious toleration eman?
To worship freely whatever religion
Name two ways that Renaissance paintings were different than Middle age painting.
Less religious and more realistic
When was the Ninety-five Thesis nailed to Wittenberg Church door?
October 31, 1517
What were two factors of inflation during the Age of absolutism?
Gold/silver and population increase/ over population
Why was it easy for the Spanish to take over the Aztec, Inca, and Mayan peoples?
Better weapons/ guns and diseases
Why was the scientific method important?
Made experiments more accurate