The Age of Exploration
Vocabulary
Increased Trade
Humanism
Middle Ages
100
the actions and attitudes of astate or country whose goal is to expand its power and territory
What is expansionism?
100
A social system in which status is ranked and power is concentrated in the higher ranks
What is a heirarchy?
100
Feudalism in the Italian city states was weak; this would fall under which factor that led to strong and powerful city states?
What is social structure?
100
This person translated the Bible to English.
Who is Johannes Guttenberg?
100
This group is at the bottom of the feudal hierarchy.
Who are the commoners (freeloaders and serfs)?
200
the extension of power over a territory including its resources and people
What is imperialism?
200
The rural area around a city state
What is a hinterland?
200
Camel caravans travelled long distances across this, moving goods from one region to another.
What is the silk road?
200
He painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci
200
This was the result of high rents and taxes paid by commoners.
What is the Peasant's Revolt?
300
This explorer returned to Spain with indigenous people, and many riches
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
An unelected GROUP of powerful leaders; led in the city states.
What is an oligarchy?
300
One of the important results of the Crusades for Europeans
What is contact with Muslim civilization or increased trade.
300
The first person to sail directly from Europe to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
300
Millions of Eurpeans died of this between 1346 and 1350.
What is the Black Death?
400
The agreement decided by the Pope to dvide the world in half between the Spanish and the Portugese.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
400
Someone born in a country; the first inhabitants of an area
What are indigenous people?
400
Life's Good So Complete stands for this.
What is Leadership, Geography, Social Structure and Climate.
400
This polish astronomer and mathmeticision publishe his thoery that the SUn is near the center of teh universe, not the Earth
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
400
This group of people were in charge of the land that peasants worked for them.
What is a noble?
500
This man was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world and attacked Spanish treasure ships bringing wealth to England
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
500
A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or ag roup; the overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world.
What is worldview?
500
This is one of the main industries in the city-states.
What is banking, ship-building, etc.
500
This new art technique changed the world of art.
What is perspective?
500
This nursery rhyme has often been associated with the Black Death.
What is Ring around the Rosie.
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