Exploration
What was the initial (first) motivation for European Exploration?
What does the word "Renaissance" mean?
Rebirth
Who started the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
In the scientific revolution, what did people depart from that was traditional where they learned about their world?
Religious teachings
Is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy in which the ruler aligns himself with God
Divine Rule
After Columbus accidentally landed in the Western Hemisphere what were the three (G) motivations?
God, Glory, Gold
What two civilizations were Europeans rediscovering and learning from?
Greece and Rome
Martin Luther wrote what that openly spoke out against the corruption of the Catholic Church?
95 Theses
A method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific assumptions.
Scientific Method
An agreement in which people give power to a government in return for its protections.
Social Contract
What was one of the most initial devastating effects of the Columbian Exchange?
The Great Dying (disease)
System of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
Humanism
Martin Luther’s ideas spread far too quickly for the Catholic Church to hide, why?
Printing Press
Copernicus determined that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun in this theory.
Enlightenment Writer who write that all humans have natural rights (right to live, liberty, and property) simply because they are human.
John Locke
How many Africans were forcibly shipped to the Americas during the Atlantic Slave trade?
12,000,000
What two regions was new information coming into to Europe from both trade and the crusades.
The Catholic Church made reforms to the Catholic Church after news got out of corruption, which is called the...
Counter Reformation
Since the days of Ancient Greece, most people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, know as what theory?
Geocentric Theory
Enlightenment Writer who made the case for government to need separations of powers to not become corrupt.
Montesquieu
What religious institution played a major role in the Spanish conquest in the Americas?
Catholicism
What country did the Renaissance start in?
Italy
What were the three main issues Martin Luther had with the Catholicism that the Catholic Church as practicing?
Simony, Nepotism, Indulgences
Galileo Galilei invented this that helped from the heliocentric theory.
Telescope
Enlightenment Writer who advocated for a secular government, in which religion and government were separated.
Voltaire