Explorers & Early Expansion
During the Age of Exploration, this term describes a territory controlled and ruled by a distant mother country.
What is a colony?
In exploration, this word means to sail all the way around the globe and return to the starting point.
What is to circumnavigate?
Humanists in Renaissance Italy looked back to the writings and art of these two ancient civilizations for inspiration.
What are Greece and Rome.
This Invention made the spreading of knowledge easier and cheaper in renaissance Europe.
What is the printing press?
This monk started a major debate over indulgences and Church authority.
Who is Martin Luther?
This Atlantic-facing country led early exploration along the coast of Africa
What is Portugal?
This term means extending control over another territory, its resources, and its people, not just visiting or trading.
What is imperialism?
This Christian figure is known for be a humanist.
Who is Jesus.
This family increasingly used their banking prowess to gain political and social influence.
Who are the Medicis
During the Reformation, Luther’s ideas spread especially fast in German towns where people could read this language instead of Latin.
What is German?
These Spanish monarchs sponsored Columbus’s voyage hoping to gain wealth, land, and power for Spain.
Who are Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand?
This is the best word for a worldview when one culture sees them as superior to others.
What is Ethnocentrism?
This type of humanism encouraged citizens of Italian city-states like Florence and Venice to take part in government and work for the common good.
What is civic humanism?
Because they paid artists, architects, and scholars to create and study, the wealthy families were called often described with this title.
What is a patron?
Martin Luther wrote these critiques of the Catholic Church.
What are the 95 Theses.
Called “the Navigator,” this Portuguese prince funded voyages and improved navigation training.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Signed in 1494, this agreement tried to divide newly “discovered” lands between Spain and Portugal with a line in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This term is used to describe added depth to artwork, especially with a focal point.
What is perspective?
The Church saw this practice, charging interest on loans, as taking unfair advantage of people in need and called it a sin.
What is usury?
This term describes the Catholic Church’s response to the Protestant Reformation, when it tried to reform itself and win people back.
What is the Catholic Counter-Reformation?
His voyage around Africa to India opened a direct sea route from Europe to Asia.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This economic idea said that a country should get as much gold and silver as possible and use colonies to supply raw materials and markets.
What is mercantilism?
These three parts make up the elements of a whole education in Humanist though.
What are the mind, body, and spirit?
Term for “everyday language” that people spoke.
What is vernacular?
Meeting between 1545 and 1563, this council clarified Catholic beliefs, ended some abuses like the sale of indulgences, and strengthened Church discipline.
What is the Council of Trent?