America Before Columbus
Medieval World in Crisis
Renaissance Art & Ideas
Challenging Authority
Quotes
100
This huge Indigenous city was built on an island in Lake Texcoco, near present-day Mexico City.
What is Tenochtitlan?
100
Peasants bound to a lord’s land and owing labor or dues were known by this term.
What are serfs?
100
Name the artist/work #1
Raphael, School of Athens
100
These Church pardons became an early target of Luther’s criticism.
What are indulgences?
100
“It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one must choose.”
Who is Machiavelli?
200
This civilization built a vast empire along the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Inca?
200
This system organized medieval political and military relationships around land, loyalty, and service.
What is feudalism?
200
This Florentine banking family became famous for supporting Renaissance artists.
Who are the Medicis?
200
This English king broke with Rome after the pope refused to annul his marriage.
Who is Henry VIII?
200
"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?
300
This major Mississippian center near present-day St. Louis contained enormous earthen mounds.
What is Cahokia?
300
The plague reached Europe in this year and spread rapidly across the continent.
What is 1347?
300
Identify the sculptor and title of work:
Sculptor: Michelangelo
Title: David
300
This belief associated with Calvin held that God had already chosen who would be saved.
What is predestination?
300
“North America in 1492 was not a virgin wilderness but a network of Indigenous nations, peoples of the corn.”
Who is Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz?
400
This political alliance included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca.
What is the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
400
This more local economic system centered on an estate where peasants farmed land controlled by a lord.
What is manorialism?
400
This Renaissance “-ism” is most clearly reflected when an artist emphasizes the distinctive personality and achievements of a single person.
What is individualism?
400
Copernicus challenged this long-established theory of planetary motion and the heavens, developed by Socrates and Ptolemy.
What is geocentrism?
400
"And yet it moves."
Who is Galileo?
500
This source preserves descriptions of Aztec society recorded after the Spanish conquest.
What is the Florentine Codex?
500
Painful swollen lymph nodes produced by bubonic plague were known by this term.
What are buboes?
500
Identify the painter and title of the work:
Sandro Botticelli
The Birth of Venus
500
This Catholic gathering from 1545–1563 reaffirmed teachings while addressing Church abuses.
What is the Council of Trent?
500
“At the beginning of October… twelve Genoese galleys… entered the harbor of Messina.”
Who is Michael Platiensis?