People & Places
This Italian city-state was a major center of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
This intellectual movement emphasized human potential and achievements.
What is Humanism?
This religious movement challenged the authority of the Catholic Church.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This Portuguese explorer sailed around the southern tip of Africa (the Cape of Good Hope).
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
This term refers to the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This artist is famous for painting the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This style of art focused on the everyday lives of people, and nature.
What is Secular Art?
This German monk started the Reformation with his 95 Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
This type of boat used a triangle sail design which allowed Europeans to sail against the wind.
What is a Caravel?
This system gave Spanish settlers the right to use Native Americans as laborers.
What is the Encomienda?
This artist sculpted the statue of David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Who is Michelangelo?
This artistic technique creates the illusion of depth on a flat surface.
What is Perspective?
This practice, the selling of these, was a major source of corruption within the Church.
What are Indulgences?
This Portuguese explorer sailed to India, opening a sea route to the East.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This trade system involved Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and the forced transport of enslaved people.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This Italian author wrote The Prince, a guide for rulers.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
This invention by Gutenberg allowed for books to be mass produced, which helped spread new ideas.
What is the Printing Press?
A person who follows the reformed churches teachings.
What is a Lutheran?
This explorer, sailing for Spain, led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
European's took land in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. They developed permanent settlements to gain power and wealth through agriculture, resource extraction, and taxation. These lands where Europeans controlled local people were called:
What are colonies?
This city was the center of the Byzantine Empire and was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, leading to the end of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
This term means "rebirth" and refers to the renewed interest in classical art and learning.
What is the Renaissance?
This term describes the division of Christianity into different denominations caused by the Reformation.
What is Protestantism?
A device used to find latitude and to make maps
What is an Astrolabe?
This economic system emphasizes that a nation's power depends on its wealth.
What is Mercantilism?