The renaissance began here because of the wealth flowing into these places as trade began to pick up in Europe
Italian city-states such as Venice
3 G's of Exploration?
God Gold Glory
This country was the firs to really get the ball rolling on Exploration
Portugal
This Italian idiot's voyage was sponsored by the Spanish crown and completely changed world history.
Columbus
The most profitable crops raised in the New World on plantations
Sugar Cane
Name, Where, why

Las Castas, Spanish and Portuguese Colonies, ethnic/racial mixing needed hierarchy
Where who and why name

Russia. Peter. Westernization. winter palace
Wealthy citizens who funded and used Art as a means of displaying power and grandeur.
Patrons
The vast global exchange of goods, people, ideas, and diseases that took place when Europe began colonizing the New World
Columbian Exchange
Prince Henry of Portugal was given this nickname even though he never sailed far away from land to lose sight of it. He actually made a school for Sailors though
The Navigator
The name of the Spanish/Portuguese conquerors in the 1500s
Conquistador
Name 4 New World plantation crops
Sugar. Tobacco, Cotton, Coffee, cacao, bananas
The first successful English colony in the New World
Jamestown
Where and who name? 
Agra fort, Mughal India, Akbar the Great
Topics of Renaissance Art included
Humanism, realism, typically religious but some secular topics as well
The nickname of the land based Empires that heavily used artillery to expand and consolidate their empires in this time period
Gunpowder Empires
He was the first European to sail and find the bottom tip of Africa
Diaz
Aztec and Inca
What ended up happening with much of the silver the Spanish mined in the New World?
They used it to fund wars and it eventually ended up in China when their goods were bought
Why were much of the North American Colonies considered the "Colonial Backwater"?
It's land was not seen as being as profitable since sugar cane was not as easily grown there
Name, Impact

Qing/Manchu, multi cultural empire
Most famous Renaissance person. Mona Lisa, Last supper, and his codex
Leonardo da Vinci
Why were Western European countries wiling to sponsor and fund exploration in this time period?
They were all competing with one another and they were trying to find easier access to and control over the spice trade.
His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.
Magellan
This was completed after Ferdinand and Isabella were married and they completely kicked the Muslims our of Spain
Reconquista
The wealthiest company that has ever existed was named this and they had a monopoly over this
This European Empire probably had the friendliest relations with the Natives because they heavily traded furs with them
French
Whew Whew Whew
Where? Empire? Name? What for? Impact?

SCULPTOR, PAINTER, ARCHITECT, POET
Statue of David and painted Sistine Chapel
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Printing Press
He was the First European to sail all the way around Africa and into India was
Vasco da Gama
Two advantages the Spanish and other Europeans had over the New World people
Guns, steel, germs, natives not united
Name 2 reasons why Africans were used as slaves instead of Native Americans
immunity, close by and easy to get from Europe, they are not living near their people and don't know the land, they can be converted to Christianity.
They landed in modern day Manhattan and "bought" the Island from the natives naming it New Amsterdam"
Dutch
Name, where, why, Result

Ottoman Kafes, keep heirs safe, crappy rulers
Improved the telescope to make it more powerful
Observed: sunspots, mountains on the moon, Jupiter’s moons
1636 = published ideas on physics, astronomy, etc.
Book banned by the Catholic Church and he was put on trial and house arrest.
Galileo
The most impactful thing traded from the Old World to the New world
Disease
Name two reasons the Portuguese Empire did not last and lost power over time.
It was hard to controls small ports, especially for a country that was so small. There were lots of corruption by officials in these areas and they heavily began trading with other empires weakening them.
Was the name of the enormous Spanish Silver mine found in the New World
Potosi
Whew Whew Whew
This is the economic theory that a country needs to export far more than it imports and this needs to be done by taking as many colonies as possible so you can have cheap imports. Thus you raise tariffs on other countries and do not allow your colonies to trade with them
Name, where, why

Ottoman Miniatures, every day lives
SOME OF HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
INVENTED CLASSICAL MECHANICS (PHYSICS)
LAWS OF MOTION
GRAVITY
REMOVED ANY DOUBT ABOUT HELIOCENTRIC
CALCULATED THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH
CALCULATED SPEED OF SOUND
2X MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
2ND SCIENTIST TO BE KNIGHTED
INVENTED:
CALCULUS
SPECTROSCOPY and more...
Newton
The ______________________ Empire finally conquering the city of __________________ fueled exploration because_______________________
Ottoman, Constantinople, Western Europeans did not want to trade or deal with the Muslim Ottomans as much and wanted to find safer and cheaper routes to Asia
The Portuguese were said to have this type of Empire because they mostly controlled important centers of trade and ports around the world.
trading post empire.
List two reasons the mighty Spanish Empire weakened over time
Silver caused inflation
Wealth went directly to the crown instead of enriching the people of the country
Charles the 2nd and his ...inbredness...
Spanish Armada defeat
What was the key difference in the colonization of the British in what will become the 13 Colonies and the colonization of the Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America
The British had more settler colonies where they actually lived and repopulated the land more so. The Spanish and Portuguese mostly send men to conquer and administrate their colonies.
Where, who, why

Peter the Great Russia, beard tax, Westernize and not be Asian/Mongolian