This is an account written without first hand knowledge of an event.
What is a secondary source?
100
These were religious wars ordered by the pope, prompting Europeans to take back the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
100
A period of rebirth for European culture.
What is the Renaissance?
100
The invention of this helped spread information quickly across Europe.
What is the printing press?
200
These are three things you should consider when evaluating a source.
What is audience, purpose, author, credibility, relation to other documents of time, etc.?
200
These were the four Ninja Turtles (also famous Renaissance painters)
Who are Leoardo (Da Vinci), Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael?
200
This caused the European population to be cut in half.
What is the (bubonic) plague (black death)?
200
This is an account written with first-hand knowledge of an event.
What is a primary source?
200
This is the most famous writer from the Renaissance, with hits like Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
Who is Shakespeare?
300
This is the goal of history.
What is to tell true stories about the past?
300
This is why the Renaissance started in Italy.
What is wealth of city-states, patrons, proximity to ancient Rome and Greece?
300
This was a system of labor, in which lords granted workers military protection and a place to farm in exchange for loyalty and a percentage of their crops.
What is feudalsim?
300
This is using evidence to reconstruct and tell true stories about the past.
What is history?
300
This is one reason someone would want to and one reason someone would not want to move to the cities.
What is find new jobs, entertainment, poor sanitation, low wages, etc.?
400
This is why history is either an art or a science. Defend your answer.
What is (any acceptable answer)?
400
This man wrote The Prince, which argued that in politics, the ends justify the means.
Who is Nicolo Machiavelli?
400
This is why Ancient Rome fell.
What is political instability, divided in half, and overtaxation due to large inefficient empire?
400
This is a period of time with a lack of cultural output from Europe.
What is the Dark Ages (or Middle Ages)?
400
THis is why the Renaissance spread more slowly to the north.
What is the plague took longer to leave the North?
500
This is the main argument of a document.
What is a thesis?
500
This man outlined in The Courtier what Renaissance men and women should be like.
Who is Castiglione?
500
This ruler was crowned Holy Roman Emperor, restoring some political stability to Europe during the Middle Ages.
Who is Charlemagne?
500
This was the name given to French Calvinists.
What are Hugenots?
500
This man is a famous Catholic thinker known for writing Eutopia.