Cities, States, and City-States
The Renaissance began in this country
What is Italy?
In French, the word "Renaissance" translates to this
What is rebirth?
This "Renaissance man" was known for creating paintings like The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa, making detailed scientific drawings of the human body, and even creating a flying machine.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
European exploration was primarily motivated by a desire to expand trade routes, acquire spices and other resources, and spread this religion.
What is Christianity?
This small European country, the first to fully explore the western coast of Africa, also created the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
What is Portugal?
When the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro reached Peru in 1532, he encountered this civilization known for its roads and mountainside terraces.
Who are the Incas?
The Renaissance was a rediscovery of culture, manuscripts, and philosophy from these two classical civilizations
What are Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome?
This man painted the beautiful and ornate ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, at the request of the popes, before history took an unexpected turn and his paintbrush was used to murder the pope!
Who is Michaelangelo?
In the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), these two European countries split up the ENTIRE WORLD without any regard to all the people that already lived there.
Slavery in the United States primarily occurred on plantations growing rice, tobacco and what product used in the making of clothes.
What is cotton?
This Italian city is built on a series of canals and lagoons, and is known for its famous gondolas (basically a "water taxi")
What is Venice?
What is "human"?
Johannes Gutenberg created this machine in 1450, which made the transmission of ideas MUCH easier.
What is the printing press?
The French adventurers Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain explored Quebec and the Upper Mississippi River area primarily in order to control the trade of this animal product.
What are furs?
In Spanish colonies of Central and South America, indigenous Americans died in large numbers primarily due to these two causes.
What are disease and overwork?
The people who call themselves the "Dutch" come from this country, known for its control of the Spice Trade during the Age of Exploration.
What is the Netherlands?
The status of artists improved from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance when artists began putting this small but key detail on their creations.
What is "their name"?
This wealthy family ruled Florence for around 300 years during the Renaissance, funding education and many famous artists?
What is the Medici Family?
These two explorers, one for Spain, one for England, are known as the leaders of the first two ships to ever circumnavigate the entire world.
Who are Ferdinand Magellan and Francis Drake?
These were major differences between slavery as done by the Europeans, and slavery as traditionally practiced in Africa. (Give at least 2 correct answers)
What is...
- European slavery was solely based on race
- European slavery was practiced at a larger scale
- In European slavery, the children of slaves were automatically considered slaves themselves.
What is the Northwest Passage?
In this book, Nicolo Machiavelli argued that rulers should be cold, scientific, ruthless, and cruel, and that they should be willing to break promises.
What is The Prince?
Pieter Bruegel the Elder is known for creating this painting, symbolic of the Renaissance in Northern Europe, which celebrates a simpler idea of what it means to be human, focusing on the joy of agricultural laborers.
What is The Peasant Wedding
In the 1600s, Henry Hudson and other Dutch explorers established a colony of the Netherlands centered around what major United States city.
What is New York City?
This Spanish priest was one of the first people to publically speak out against the inhumane way the Spanish Empire treated native peoples of the Americas
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?