Renaissance & Reformation
What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
What are the 3 G's that motivated European exploration?
Gold, God, and Glory
What two areas of the world were connected by the Silk Road?
China and Europe/the West.
What is a voyage?
A course or period of traveling by other than land routes.
Europeans developed improved maps and navigation knowledge. What was one effect of these advancements?
Explorers were better able to plan and navigate long-distance voyages.
Name one advancement from the Renaissance that could help a European sailor on a voyage.
Improved maps, compass, latitude/longitude, astronomy, printing press, etc.
What did Gold represent for European explorers and rulers?
Wealth, valuable goods, better trade and economic gain
What was the Silk Road?
An ancient trading route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between China and Europe.
What was Columbus hoping to find when he sailed west?
A western route to Asia.
The printing press allowed information to spread much faster. What was one effect this had on the Reformation?
Ideas criticizing the Catholic Church could spread to more people, helping the Reformation grow.
What was the Reformation?
A movement that challenged the practices and teachings of the Catholic Church.
+50 points if you included Martin Luther in your response
What did God represent as a motivation for exploration?
Spreading religion and European culture
Besides goods, what are two other things that traveled along the Silk Road?
Ideas, religions, technologies, or diseases
Where did Columbus believe he had arrived when he reached the Bahamas?
India
European merchants and rulers wanted greater access to wealth and valuable goods from Asia. What was one effect?
Europeans began searching for new trade routes to Asia.
How did the printing press help the Reformation grow?
It allowed ideas and criticisms of the Catholic Church to spread much faster.
What did Glory represent for European countries?
Gaining power and respect compared to other European countries. Being "The First," to new land.
A merchant is traveling the Silk Road carrying expensive spices and silk. What are two challenges they might face during the journey, and how could those challenges affect their trip?
They could face difficult terrain, extreme climates, lack of food/water/shelter, disease, or attacks. These could slow the journey, make travel dangerous, or cause merchants to lose their goods.
How did advancements from the Renaissance help Europeans keep track of and share information about explorers’ voyages?
Advances in mapping, navigation, and astronomy helped explorers determine their locations and routes, while the printing press helped spread their records and information to others.
Europeans became more curious about the world and developed new scientific ideas during the Renaissance. What was one effect?
Europeans became more willing and able to explore unknown places.
Why could Renaissance advancements make European exploration more possible?
New knowledge and advancements in science, maps, navigation, and communication gave explorers better tools and information for long voyages.
Why might competition between European countries have increased exploration during the late 1400s?
European countries wanted to gain wealth, resources, land, and power before their rivals did, which encouraged them to send explorers to find new trade routes and territories.
European merchants want the valuable goods from Asia, but traveling the Silk Road is difficult and dangerous. How could finding a new sea route to Asia solve some of these problems?
A sea route could give Europeans another way to reach Asian markets and transport valuable goods without having to travel the same difficult overland routes.
What was significant about the voyages of Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama?
Their voyages helped Europeans find and use a sea route around Africa to Asia.
How did Renaissance advancements and European motivations work together to cause European exploration?
Renaissance advancements such as improved maps, navigation knowledge, and communication gave Europeans better tools and information for exploration. At the same time, Europeans wanted wealth, new trade routes, land, resources, and to spread religion and increase their power, motivating them to explore.