Middle Ages
This is where a landowner grants pieces of land to peasants in exchange for loyalty and service.
What is the Feudal System?
Johannes Gutenberg’s invention that improved literacy was called what?
What is the Printing Press?
This was a major religious movement in the 16th Century where people started to challenge the Catholic Church?
What is Reformation?
What is the New World?
What is North and South America?
This man created the Mona Lisa?
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
This disease wiped out the majority of the European population during the Middle Ages?
What is the Black Plague?
This is an individual who can do all sorts of things.
What is a "Renaissance Man?"
These were certificates that were paid with money to pay for a pardon of sins.
What are indulgences?
This is one that conquers; specifically: a leader in the Spanish conquest of America.
What is conquistadors?
This man made the Sistine Chapel?
Who is Michelangelo?
After the Middle Ages, Europe experienced some stability so the Renaissance occurred in what country?
What is Italy?
This is a way to create depth in art?
What is perspective?
Who had 6 wives and decided to create his own church to get a divorce?
Who was King Henry the 8th?
This was a mechanism that was used to find the current latitude?
What is an Astrolabe?
This woman was one of the most influential people of the Renaissance period and supported the works of William Shakespeare.
Who is Queen Elizabeth One.
After the Middle Ages, peasants were able to rise to more powerful positions and demanded what?
What are rights?
This was the idea that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
Martin Luther was author of what document that criticized the Pope?
What is the 95 Theses?
This was a transatlantic trading network that developed.
What is Triangular Trade?
This explorer is regarded as one of the greatest admirals in Chinese history, and actually sailed as far as Africa.
Who is Zheng He?
These were wealthy people who sponsored artists & commissioned works?
What are patrons?
This new idea emphasized the individual. What was it called?
This is the idea that you are already predetermined before birth on whether or not you get to go to Heaven.
What is predestination?
This was a voyage that brought captured Africans to the Americas to be sold into slavery?
What is the Middle Passage?
Which explorer's expedition was the first to circumnavigate (travel all the way around) the world?
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?