Religions
Which religions believe in karma and reincarnation?
Hinduism and Buddhism
Name a Renaissance Thinker:
Answers will vary.
Who discovered a new route to the Americas, expanding global connections and economic exchange across continents?
Christopher Columbus
This spread easily along trade routes across Europe, eventually leading to 50 million deaths.
The Black Plague
Which ocean connected Africa to Asia for trade?
The Indian Ocean
Which religion values honoring ones parents and elders as well as maintaining political order?
Confucianism
The starting point of the Renaissance because of geographic locations and strong city-states.
Italy
This city fell to the Ottomans and became the new capital called Istanbul.
Constantinople
Someone who spreads the ideas of Christianity to other parts of the world is called a ________________.
Missionary
Name something, other than disease, that travelled along the silk road.
religion, cultural practices, traditions, language, books, spices, silk, etc.
Whats are the 3 Abrahamic religions?
Christianity, Judaism, Islam
The Mona Lisa was a painting created by which Renaissance Artist?
Leonardo di Vinci
Name one of the four motivations for Exploration:
Wealth, Power, Knowledge, Religion
Expansive network of trade routes connecting Europe to Asia
The Silk Road
Which empire controlled most trade across the Silk Road?
The Ottoman Empire
Which written text belongs to Islam?
Quran
What major development during the Renaissance changed the future for storing information and increased literacy rates across the world?
The Printing Press
The effect of expansion on the African Kingdoms was the capturing of free people and forcing them into slavery. This trade between Africa to the Americas was known as what?
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Which technological innovation contributed most to the growth of Indian Ocean trade?
Compass, Astrolabe, maps, etc.
Name an effect of the Black Death in Europe.
population decline, more money/jobs available, people question the church, etc.
This symbol demonstrates balance in nature, often recognizing night and day, light and dark, or sun and moon.
Yin-Yang
Renaissance artists and thinkers started to focus of scholarship, architecture, and artist from a new perspective called what?
Humanism
What were the two dominant countries for early exploration because of ones strong monarchy and the others experience in Atlantic exploration?
Spain and Portugal
Name all three Mesoamerican Empires:
Aztec, Inca, and Mayan
What caused the decline of the Mesoamerican empires?
Disease spread by the Spanish