Important People
The Italian family whose patronage of the arts led to the creation of many famous works
Who are the Medici?
The Catholic church sold these; essentially "get out of jail free" cards
What are indulgences?
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Columbus sailed West believing he could reach Asia via the Atlantic Ocean, where did he actually end up?
What is the West Indies/Caribbean?
During the Renaissance rulers like Lorenzo de Medici became these to artists, providing housing and pay to support them
What are patrons?
This Catholic monk became the head of the Reformation
Who is Martin Luther?
This is the process of transporting enslaved people from Africa to the Americas
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Martin Luther believed in most Catholic beliefs besides:
What is the authority of the Pope?
This prince founded a navigation school to support exploration and trade in Portugal
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
How did art in the Middle Ages show the viewer who the most important person in an image was?
What is: making them larger?
This English king broke with the Catholic church over the ability to divorce, leading to the English Reformation
Who is Henry VIII?
This French word means rebirth
One of the motivations behind European exploration, it involved spreading Catholicism to Spanish territories
What is God?
Europeans brought Christianity and diseases to the Americas through this, a process that can also be called Triangular Trade
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This man, hired by Lorenzo de Medici, wrote about the role of a ruler was to maintain control, even if this meant his people feared him
Who is Nicollo Machiavelli?
This man is known as the "Father of Modern Science"
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Martin Luther posted these; his complaints against the Catholic church
What are the 95 Theses?
Prior to the use of this in religious documents or ceremonies only those in the clergy could interact with the Bible
Due to this treaty, negotiated by the Pope, Portugal was effectively left out of the Americas
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This man who sat beneath a tree and discovered gravity also became the author of the Universal Laws of Motion
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This man is famous for a new model of the heavens, which stated that the Earth revolved around the Sun, not the other way around.
Who is Nicolas Copernicus?
One of the major shifts in thinking exhibited in the Renaissance; shows that humanity and its accomplishments are just as important as God
What is humanism?
This invention allowed the cost of books to go down, allowing many families to finally own a Bible of their own
What is the Printing Press?
As indigenous populations were killed Europeans looked for cheap labor, this led to the forced movement of people from Africa called this
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
He was the first to identify and map the circulatory system (structures of the heart)
Who is William Harvey?