Key Terms
Key People
Key Places
New Ideas
New Worlds
100
The period of rebirth of learning in Europe between about 1300 and 1600.
What is the Renaissance?
100
The man who started the Protestant Reformation.
Who was Martin Luther?
100
Modern-day country where the Renaissance started.
Where is (Northern) Italy?
100
The two ancient cultures that inspired Renaissance thinking.
What are Greece and Rome?
100
Continent Europeans wanted to trade with to aquire gold, ivory, and slaves.
What is Africa?
200
To sail completely around the Earth.
What is circumnavigate?
200
The unmarried queen who ruled over a Golden Age in Renaissance England.
Who was Queen Elizabeth?
200
Modern-day country where the Protestant Reformation started.
Where is Germany?
200
Book Martin Luther believed everyone should be able to read in his own language.
What is the Bible?
200
The Aztec capital built at the same location as Mexico City is now.
What is Tenochtitlan?
300
The belief that a monarch's authority to rule comes directly from God.
What is the divine right of kings?
300
The man whose crew was the first to sail completely around the world.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
300
Modern-day country formed when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella united their individual countries.
Where is Spain?
300
Invention by Johann Gutenberg that helped Reformatin ideas spread.
What is the printing press or movable type?
300
Civilization conquered by Francisco Pizarro.
Who are the Incas?
400
The treacherous waterway near the southern tip of South America.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
400
The Aztec leader at the time of Cortes's conquest.
Who was Moctezuma?
400
The location of the Counter-Reformation Church council.
Where is Trent?
400
Seafaring tool that used the sun and stars to determine latitude when sailing.
What is the astrolabe?
400
The Portuguese prince who founded a school for explorers and sponsored about 50 expeditions.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
500
The system in which Spanish settlers in the Americas were given the right force Native Americans in a certain area to work for them.
What is encomienda?
500
The "Sun King" who ruled France as an absolute monarch.
Who was Louis XIV?
500
Louis XIV's huge palace outside of Paris.
Where is Versailles?
500
The court that tried and punished Catholic heretics in Renaissance Spain.
What is the (Spanish) Inquisition?
500
The first European to see the Pacific Ocean while standing on land in the Americas.
Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
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