Renaissance Europe
What movement focused on learning, art, and new ideas during the 1300s–1600s?
What is the Renaissance?
What was the capital city of the Aztec Empire?
What is Tenochtitlan?
Who held the real political power during the Tokugawa period?
Who is the Shogun?
Which two societies had warriors who were expected to follow codes of honour?
Japan (Samurai) and the Aztecs (Warriors).
What is a worldview?
A collection of beliefs and values that shape how people see the world.
What invention helped spread ideas quickly throughout Europe?
What is the printing press?
What farming method involved creating floating gardens?
What are chinampas?
What was a ronin in feudal Japan?
A samurai who no longer had a master or lord to serve.
What period did Japan go through under the shogun?
Name one factor that influences a person's worldview.
Family, religion, culture, language, geography, education, experiences, etc.
This artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
What resource was used as money by the Aztecs?
What are cacao beans?
What tribute did conquered peoples have to pay to the Aztec Empire?
Goods such as food, clothing, precious materials, weapons, or labour.
What were the 3 main city-states in Italy?
Florence, Venice and Genoa
True or False: Everyone in a society has exactly the same worldview.
False.
Renaissance thinkers encouraged people to focus on human potential and achievements.
What is Humanism?
Which Spanish conquistador defeated the Aztec Empire?
Who is Hernán Cortés?
Name one internal pressure and one external pressure that led Japan to end isolation.
Internal: economic problems, dissatisfaction with the shogun. External: arrival of Commodore Perry, pressure from Western nations.
Name one similarity between Tokugawa Japan and the Aztec Empire.
Both had strict social hierarchies, powerful military groups, strong leadership, and clear social roles.
How can geography influence a society's worldview?
It affects resources, trade, transportation, lifestyle, and interactions with others.
Name one reason Italian city-states became centres of Renaissance culture.
Wealth from trade, banking, location on trade routes, wealthy patrons, etc.
Give two reasons the Aztec Empire fell.
Disease, Spanish weapons, Indigenous allies helping Cortés, leadership issues, etc.
During the Meiji Restoration, what was one major change Japan made?
Modernized military, industry, education, transportation, government, etc.
What was the devastating disease that wiped out 1/3 of Europe during the Middle Ages?
The Bubonic Plague or Black Death
Explain how a society's worldview can affect its decisions.
It influences laws, government, trade, relationships, traditions, and responses to change.