Geography
The Ottoman Empire spanned across these three continents at its height during the 16th-17th centuries.
This man's religious beliefs and views included equal access to god, people should read the bible and interpret it themselves, the bible alone is the source of truth, and believed the clergy should be allowed to marry.
Martin Luther
Know all three ideologies we have talked about and how they apply to society during the Renaissance.
Which ism is portrayed in the following sentence?
During the Renaissance people saw life on Earth as worth living for its own sake, not just as an ordeal to endure before going to heaven
Secularism
The Ottoman Empire practiced this towards their non-Muslim subjects.
Religious Tolerance
Name the five themes of Geography.
Location, Region, Place, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction.
This authoritative and strong English Queen practiced religious tolerance, was politically savvy, and encouraged English exploration and colonization of the New World.
Elizabeth I
The invention of the moveable printing press in 1450 had a multitude of effects on human intellect and society. Provide me with at least two effects the printing press had. If you give me more than two effects, you will receive extra credit.
Increase in literacy rates, printing of the bible and other holy texts in English, German, and French, reduced the production costs of making books, made books cheaper, made books more abundant (increased the number of books in circulation), spread renaissance and reformation ideas, beliefs, and literature, etc.
This is a non-Muslim religious community. It had its own court of law, ethics, and culture. The five main millets of the Ottoman Empire were Muslim, Greek Orthodox Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Armenian Orthodox. It also refers to the specific court of law for each religion, as they were treated differently but fairly in court.
Millet
The Ottoman Government implemented this theoretical economic practice before the idea had even been conceived by Europe and the rest of the world. They did this in order to maintain social stability, prevent immense wealth from piling up, and to concentrate state power over the people of the empire.
Price regulation
Southern German Principalities primarily chose this religion.
Northern German Principalities primarily chose this religion.
Southern: Catholic
Northern: Lutheran
The Peace of Augsburg allowed the German princes to select either Lutheranism or Catholicism as the religion of their domain and permitted the free emigration of residents who dissented.
French Protestants are known as...
Huguenots
How was the Protestant Reformation related to the Renaissance?
Humanist ideas caused people to question the authority of the Church.
Administrators
This peace treaty ended the thirty years war, and irrevocably changed the map of Europe.
Peace of Westphalia
John Calvin was responsible for spreading the religious ideas of the Protestant Reformation to this nation.
France
Pope Paul III convened this Council, which met off and on for nearly 20 years. It reaffirmed most Catholic doctrines and practices, worked to end corruption (it didn't) in the clergy, and to give the clergy a better education (it actually did do that).
Council of Trent
Which Italian City-State traded with the Ottoman Empire and had easier access to Indian Ocean trade routes? This city-state amassed (collected) a lot of wealth, eventually leading to an excess of cash. This city-state was then able to fund art, architecture, and philosophical projects that kick-started the Italian Renaissance and eventually the greater European Renaissance. If you can tell me the sister city-state of this one, then you will receive extra credit.
Venice (and Genoa I guess)
What type of governmental system did the Ottoman Empire employ throughout its territory?
Imperial Bureaucracy
Intelligentsia
Politicians
These two European nations were forced to find alternative routes to the far east (India and China). Tell me which specific routes they took for extra credit.
Spain - sailed west across Atlantic. Then sailed west from N. and S. America across Pacific where they landed in Southeast Asia.
Portugal - Sailed south across the Atlantic, around the southern tip of Africa, and upwards through the Indian Ocean.
This movement was idealized as a "court", yet it used torture, execution, and political coercion to accomplish its goals. It was established in the Middle Ages by the Roman Catholic Church to try cases of Heresy (beliefs that were contrary to Catholic doctrine).
The Inquisition
Tell me the three primary Italian artists of the Renaissance
Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci
Muslim society allowed for the ascending of the social hierarchy (climbing the social ladder), something nearly every other empire and nation in the world lacked. What is this practice called?
Social Mobility
The act of selling church offices and roles or sacred things.
Simony