Italian Renaissance
From the French word meaning "rebirth"
What is the Renaissance?
Northern humanists focused more on ________ than their counterparts of the Italian Renaissance
What is religion?
German printer who invented the printing press between 1445 and 1450
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
This English King broke from the Catholic Church after the Pope refused to give him a divorce
Who was Henry VIII?
Triangular sails developed by Arab sailors
What are lateen sails?
Italian explorer who believed he had reached Asia in 1492 and claimed the new lands for Spain
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Known as the "navigator" for his support of sailing on the open seas
Who was Prince Henry of Portugal?
Machiavelli's most famous work
He satirized the Catholic Church in his book Praise of Folly
Movable _________ was a revolutionary printing technology
What is type?
This husband and wife team ruled Spain for most of the 15th century
Who were King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
Invented by the Chinese in the 12th century, it indicated which way is north
What is the compass?
D A I L Y D O U B L E
This treaty created separate spheres of colonial influence between Spain and Portugal in the New World
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
The "Father of Humanism"
Northern Renaissance artist who created prints and woodcuts
Who was Albrecht Dürer?
One of the first known examples of a book produced from movable type
What was the Gutenberg Bible?
Agreement between France's Francis I and Pope Leo X in 1516, it permitted the pope to collect all income the Catholic Church made in France
What was the Concordat of Bologna?
It helped sailors determine where they were at sea based on the altitude of the sun or a star above the horizon
What is the astrolabe?
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs in 1519
Who was Hernan Cortes?
The first European to explore the coast of East Africa and reach India
What was Vasco da Gama?
He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Who was Michelangelo?
Flemish artist known for his paintings which depicted scenes from the lives of ordinary peasants
Who was Pieter Bruegel the Elder?
The printing press made __________ literature, written in the everyday language of a region, increasingly available.
What is vernacular?
King Henry IV of France ended 50 years of religious war in France by issuing the _____________, granting Calvinist Protestants of France, known as Huguenots, new rights
What is the Edict of Nantes?
It measured the wealth of a country by how much gold and silver it accumulated
What is mercantilism?
This was was fought from 1701 until 1714 and began when the Spanish king Charles II died childless
What was the war of Spanish Succession?
This Dutch port surpassed Antwerp and became the major trading port in Europe by the early 17th century
What is Amsterdam?
Castiglione's 1528 book which outlined how to act as a proper gentleman or lady
What is The Book of the Courtier?
Member of Parliament and advisor to Henry VIII, he wrote Utopia in 1516
Who was Thomas More?
D A I L Y D O U B L E
This German monk's ideas were quickly translated into German, printed into pamphlets, and distributed throughout German-speaking lands
Who was Martin Luther?
This act made the King of England the head of the Church of England
What was the Act of Supremacy?
King Louis XIV finance minister, he reformed the French tax system to make the country richer and more politically stable
Who was Jean-Baptiste Colbert?
Fought from 1756 to 1763, this war resulted in France giving up claims to large amounts of land east of the Mississippi River and in Canada
What was the Seven Years' War?
These European diseases devastated the indigenous population of the New World
What are measles and small pox?