Renaissance/ Reformation
Rebirth
What is the Renaissance?
The Ottoman Empire, the Mughal Empire, & the Safavid Empire.
What are the Gunpowder Empires?
Eventually developed into a religion, with an organized doctrine, cultic practices, and institutional leadership.
What is Daoism?
The first modern European scientist to propose the Heliocentric Theory of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
Realizing a person's full potential both for their own good and for the good of the society in which they live.
What is Humanism?
The largest land empire in history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
The first Chinese dynasty.
What is the Shang dynasty?
Ancient empire that built Machu Picchu.
Who are the Inca civilization?
The right of a sovereign to rule as set forth by the theory of government that holds that a monarch receives the right to rule directly from God and not from the people
What is divine right?
Wrote the book Utopia, a reference to an ideal political system in which policies are governed by reason.
Who is Thomas More?
The capital of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
This Chinese dynasty is credited with building the Great Wall of China.
What is the Ming dynasty?
Trade system for the exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Played a key role in the scientific revolution, contributing a number of scientific breakthroughs including his famous laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
“I think, therefore I am”.
Who is Descartes?
The primary religion of the Safavid Empire.
What is Islam?
Focus on the hierarchical structure and importance of family.
What is Confucianism?
Developed the science of astronomy, calendar systems, and hieroglyphic writing.
Who were the Mayan civilization?
Felt that humans had an innate motivation to feel pleasure and cause hurt – a state of war and state of nature are the same so we need an absolute ruler.
Who is Hobbes?
King of England that split from the Catholic Church because of the inability to obtain an annulment from the pope. Created the Church of England.
Who is Henry VIII?
This empire lasted about 600 years.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Led to the end of dynasties in China.
What is revolution?
Labor system that rewarded Spanish explorers/conquistadors with land in the New World. But they didn't just get the land, they got the labor of the people living on the land as well.
What was the encomienda system?
Wrote Two Treatises of Government.
Who is Locke?