Spanish Colonization
Who sailed the ocean blue in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Who controlled most of the silver during the Early Modern Period?
Spain
Name a play by William Shakespeare.
Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Othello, Midsummer Night's Dream, etc.
Who started the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
Who first argued that the Earth revolved around the sun?
Copernicus
Who did the Spanish enslave in the Americas before African slaves were brought over?
Native Americans/Indigenous People
What was the trade connections between Europe, Africa, and the Americas called?
Triangular Trade
Where did the Renaissance start?
Italy
What was the document that criticized the Catholic Church called?
95 Theses
Who was placed under house arrest for 50 years for his discoveries on the Sun being the center of our galaxy?
Galileo Galilei
What was the main crop grown in the Caribbean?
Sugarcane
Why did colonizers start getting slaves from Africa?
They killed off most of the indigenous population with diseases, or overwork.
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
What war raged in The Holy Roman Empire (Germany) because of the Protestant Reformation?
Thirty Years War
What did people in Medieval and Renaissance times believe caused illness?
Humours
Who was the conquistador that defeated the Aztecs?
Hernan Cortes
What continent held a majority of the silver mines?
South America (Bolivia to be specific)
Who was the English playwright arrested for being an atheist?
Christopher Marlowe
What was it called when people would pay for their sins to be forgiven?
Indulgences
What is the term for the "sun being the center"?
Heliocentrism
What does "religious syncretism" mean?
To take a religion and meld it with another religion or belief system.
What is Mercantilism?
When your wealth is judged by the goods/products you have
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Name one branch of Christianity that exists because of the Protestant Reformation. (Besides Lutheranism)
Church of England, Reformed Church (Calvinism), Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians
Who discovered that our bodies used 1 blood circulatory system? Blood pumps from the heart, around our body, and back into the heart.
William Harvey