America Before Columbus
This huge Indigenous city was built on an island in Lake Texcoco, near present-day Mexico City.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Peasants bound to a lord’s land and owing labor or dues were known by this term.
What are serfs?
Who made the School of Athens?
Who is Raphael
These Church pardons became an early target of Luther’s criticism.
What are indulgences?
“It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one must choose."
Who is Machiavelli?
This civilization built a vast empire along the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Inca?
This system organized medieval political and military relationships around land, loyalty, and service.
What is feudalism?
This Florentine banking family became famous for supporting Renaissance artists.
Who are the Medicis?
This English king broke with Rome after the pope refused to annul his marriage.
Who is Henry VIII?
"Papal indulgences for the building of St. Peter's are circulating under your most distinguished name. ... The unhappy souls believe that if they have purchased letters of indulgence, they are sure of their salvation."
Who is Martin Luther?
This major Mississippian center near present-day St. Louis contained enormous earthen mounds.
What is Cahokia?
The plague reached Europe in this year and spread rapidly across the continent.
What is 1347?
Who made the sculpture David
Michelangelo
This belief, associated with Calvin, held that God had already chosen who would be saved.
What is predestination?
"North America in 1492 was not a virgin wilderness but a network of Indigenous nations, peoples of the corn.”
Who is Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz?
This political alliance included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca.
What is the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
This more local economic system centered on an estate where peasants farmed land controlled by a lord.
What is manorialism?
This Renaissance “-ism” is most clearly reflected when an artist emphasizes the distinctive personality and achievements of a single person.
What is individualism?
Copernicus challenged this long-established theory of planetary motion and the heavens, developed by Socrates and Ptolemy.
What is geocentrism?
"And yet it moves."
Who is Galileo?
This source preserves descriptions of Aztec society recorded after the Spanish conquest.
What is the Florentine Codex?
Painful, swollen lymph nodes produced by bubonic plague were known by this term.
What are buboes?
Who made the Birth of Venus
Who is Sandro Botticelli
This Catholic gathering from 1545–1563 reaffirmed teachings while addressing Church abuses.
What is the Council of Trent?
“At the beginning of October…twelve Genoese galleys… entered the harbor of Messina."
Who is Michael Platiensis?