The Renaissance meant the rebirth of scholarship from these two groups.
What are Romans and Greeks?
100
The everyday language of the people in a region or country.
What is the vernacular?
100
Define the Trans Saharan Trade Route.
What is the trade route that connected Sub Saharan Africa with the rest of Europe and Asia?
100
This describes Marco Polo.
Who is the Italian merchant that recorded his journey to China?
100
Definition of cultural diffusion
What is the spread of ideas and religions across various networks of trade?
200
The reason why Italian city states were to leaders of the Renaissance movement.
What is the wealth gained by these city states, allowing them to fully fund artistic movements.
200
The definition of "theology".
What is the terms used to describe the study of religions?
200
Considered on the richest men in the history of the world, he was responsible for the spreading of Islam around sub-Saharan Africa.
Who is Mansa Musa?
200
The furthermost point of exploration for the Chinese Admiral Zheng He.
What is Africa?
200
The way Martin Luther originally displayed his complaints against the Catholic Church.
He nailed them (95 Theses) to the door of a church.
300
This piece of Renaissance art is better known as the La Giaconda.
What is the Mona Lisa?
300
The term describes the separation of church and state. Did this concept go away or strengthen during the Reformation?
What is secularism? It went away!
300
List four things that would have been exchanged on the Trans Saharan Trade Route.
What are gold, salt, slaves, ideas, religion, education?
300
This trade network resulted in the diffusion of culture and ideas from the East to the West.
What is the Silk Road?
300
This allowed for the spread of Renaissance and Reformation ideas across great distances, very quickly.
What is Gutenberg's printing press?
400
This ideology can be defined by scholars studying classical texts and focusing on human potential and achievements.
What is humanism?
400
This best describes the origin of Protestantism (be detailed!)
Martin Luther's analysis and interpretation of Christian Holy text lead to a split from the Catholic Church, resulting in the creation of this branch of Christianity.
400
The honorary Muslim judge that recorded his journey around the Muslim world.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
400
These allowed the Mongols to make huge gains in land.