Black Plague & Aftermath
This devastating disease spread across Europe, Asia, and Africa from 1347 to 1353.
A - The Columbian Exchange
B - The Black Plague
C - The Reformation
B - The Black Plague
This intellectual movement focused on human abilities, ideas, and achievements.
A - Humanism
B - Feudalism
C - Manorialism
A - Humanism
This small, fast sailing ship was used by European explorers.
A - A printing press
B - An astrolabe
C - A caravel
C - A caravel
This German monk and theology professor challenged Church practices in 1517.
A - Erasmus
B - Martin Luther
C - Thomas More
B - Martin Luther
This art style shows people and things as they look in everyday life.
A - Realism
B - Perspective
C - Humanism
A - Realism
This term describes the number of people who die in a population during a certain time.
A - Social Mobility
B - Demographic Shift
C - Mortality Rate
C - Mortality Rate
This term describes the study of ideas, writings, art, and achievements from ancient Greece and Rome.
A - Patronage
B - Classical learning
C - Realism
B - Classical learning
This tool helped sailors find their location by using the stars.
A - An astrolabe
B - Movable Type
C - A Caravel
A - An astrolabe
This term describes a payment to the Church that people believed could reduce punishment for sins.
A - Patronage
B - A siege
C - An indulgence
This artistic technique uses vanishing points to create the appearance of depth.
A - Individualism
B - Perspective
C - Patronage
B - Perspective
When a population has fewer workers than needed, this economic condition develops.
A - A labor shortage
B - A standing army
C - A centralized government
A - A labor shortage
Wealthy people who supported artists, writers, and other creators provided this.
A - An indulgence
B - A labor shortage
C - Patronage
C - Patronage
This Italian explorer sailed west in 1492 on a voyage funded by Spain.
A - Vasco da Gama
B - Christopher Columbus
C - Hernan Cortes
B - Christopher Columbus
This movement in the 1500s challenged the Catholic Church and led to new Christian churches.
A - The Reformation
B - The Renaissance
C - The Columbian Exchange
A - The Reformation
This term describes the belief that each person is unique and can think and act for themselves.
A - Classical learning
B - Realism
C - Individualism
After the plague reduced the number of available workers, workers could sometimes demand more of this for their work.
A - Indulgences
B - Higher wages
C - Feudal obligations
B - Higher wages
This Italian city-state became wealthy through wool textiles and banking, including the influence of the Medici family.
A - Florence
B - Constantinople
C - Orleans
A - Florence
This exchange transferred plants, animals, people, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia after 1492.
A - The Reformation
B - Classical learning
C - The Columbian Exchange
C - The Columbian Exchange
According to Luther’s teaching, people received this through faith, not by buying indulgences.
A - Patronage
B - Salvation
C - Social mobility
B - Salvation
This writer used Utopia to criticize injustice, greed, and political corruption in England.
A - Thomas More
B - Machiavelli
C - Erasmus
A - Thomas More
This term describes a major change in the size or makeup of a population.
A - Classical learning
B - Social mobility
C - Demographic shift
C - Demographic shift
This term describes a city and the land around it acting as an independent country.
A - A centralized government
B - A city-state
C - A standing army
B - A city-state
This Spanish system forced Indigenous people to work for Spanish settlers.
A - The encomienda system
B - Manorialism
C - The Statute of Laborers
A - The encomienda system
Luther argued that this should be the highest authority for Christian teaching.
A - The Medici Family
B - The Treaty of Troyes
C - Scripture/The Bible
C - Scripture/The Bible
This writer’s The Prince examined how rulers gain and maintain power.
A - Thomas More
B - Machiavelli
C - Martin Luther
B - Machiavelli