Worldviews
What are the three main things that affect a persons worldview?
Geography
Ideas and Knowledge
Contact with other groups
What was the black Death?
A horrible pandemic that killed over 25 million people and was the end of the middle ages.
What are the 3 main City States?
Florence, Genoa, Venice
What is the civic?
Relating to a city or town and it's citizens
Galileo is know to be?
The father of modern science
What are the 3 main areas that we use to affect the world around us?
Social Systems
Political and Economic Systems
Culture
What does Bias mean?
A type of prejudice in a persons point of view.
What are the Crusades?
Religious Wars between Christians, Muslims, and Jews over Holy Land, that lasted from 1096 - 1204
What is democracy?
System of a government by the whole population
Who cut open dead boobies?
Andreas Vesalius
What were the Sumptuary laws?
Regulations that dictate what people could wear based on what social class they were in
Who were the Medici Family?
A family who ruled Florence from the 13th Century to the 17th Century
What is pictographs?
Symbolic images representing objects or concepts
Who is Savonarola and which other person did he inspire?
Dominican monk; he inspired Luther
Who was Jacques Bonhomme?
French peasants
Who is Marco Polo?
An Italian Merchant who was born in Venice in 1254 and was known for his travels to Asia
What is humanists?
Scholars emphasising human potential and classical learning
Who created the printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
How could you explain culture?
The basis for our way of life. Includes,food,dance,music,and traditions
What created cultural diversity in medieval Europe?
The presents of Muslims and Jews
What is Usuary?
The practice of charging interest on loans, which was controversial but became important for trade financing.
What is Colosseum?
Ancient amphitheatre for public spectacles
How did the Catholics respond to the Protestant reformation?
The catholic counter reformation focused converting people back to Catholicism and eliminating corruption