Name given to the major outbreak of bubonic plague that devastated Europe between the 1340s - 1350s
What is the Black Death?
This invention helped spread both religious ideas and Renaissance trends rapidly across Europe in the late 15th - early 16th century
The so-called "Father" of the Humanist movement, who often wrote letters to Roman intellectuals like Livy and Cicero bemoaning the state of affairs in 14th-century Italy
Who was Francesco Petrarch?
The three Gs often associated with European motivations for exploration, conquest, and colonization in the early modern period
What are gold, glory, and god?
Demographic shift that led most directly to the increase in Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
What is the Great Dying?
Important military innovation that allowed England to dominate many battles, including Agincourt, during the Hundred Years' War
What is the longbow?
Author of Utopia, and King Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor before the start of the English Reformation
Who is Thomas More?
The academic subjects which, from the Roman and Humanist perspective, made up the Studia Humanitatis
What are grammar, ethics, history, rhetoric, and poetry?
This explorer's crew was the first to circumnavigate the entire globe
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
What is indentured servitude?
Name of two families who fought for power in England during the War of the Roses between the 1450s - 1480s.
Who are the Lancasters and the Yorkists?
This German Renaissance artist was renowned for his self-portrait, which implicitly drew comparisons to Jesus
Who is Albrecht Durer?
Author of The Prince, a guide to the Medici and other powerful political rulers in the 16th century
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
La Noche Triste occurred in 1520, as Spanish soldiers attempted to escape being besieged from this Aztec capital
Approximate number of Africans who were sent across the Atlantic during the slave trade period, between the 16th and 19th centuries
What is 12 million?
What are boyars?
Henry V, Richard III, and Julius Caesar were all examples of this genre of playwrighting that William Shakespeare mastered during the Elizabethan Golden Age in England
What are history plays?
What is contrapposto?
Name of the first permanent English settlement founded in North America
What is Jamestown
Name of the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping or accounting
Who is Luca Pacioli?
Name of the itinerant preacher who questioned the social order in late Medieval England - "When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman?"
Who is John Ball?
Leading Dutch Christian humanist, who advocated for expanded education and Church reforms, but remained staunchly Catholic
Who is Erasmus?
Name of the influential Italian Renaissance artist who founded a workshop to train apprentices, and produced pieces such as The School of Athens
Who is Raphael?
Name of the 1494 treaty that divided the world between the Spanish and Portuguese crowns
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The type of commercial enterprises authorized by European monarchs/political leaders to engage in overseas trade and colonization in the early 17th century
What are joint-stock companies?
(Also accepted: What are chartered companies?)