Age of Exploration
Renaissance
World in 1500
People
Age of Absolutism
100
This motivation for exploration was to spread Christianity.
What is God?
100
Renaissance means this.
What is rebirth?
100
This empire is represented here in western Africa.
What is the Songhai Empire?
100
The creator of the theory of gravity.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
100
A type of government where the king or queen has complete power to do whatever they want.
What is an absolute monarchy?
200
This trade pathway connected Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
What is Triangular Trade?
200
The Renaissance began here.
What is Southern Italy - Florence?
200
Monotheism
What is the belief in one god?
200
The Portuguese creator of navigational schools during the Age of Exploration.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
200
A type of government where a monarch has their power limited by a constitution.
What is a Limited Monarchy?
300
These were created on the coasts of Africa by European explorers.
What are trade posts?
300
The sale of passage into heaven by the Catholic Church.
What are indulgences?
300
The trade route that connected the Far East to Middle East and Europe until it was shut down by the Ottoman Empire.
What is the Silk Road?
300
The Italian painter known for his work on the Mona Lisa that reflected realism.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
The idea that god gave monarchs the power to rule.
What is divine right?
400
This is the country that colonizers were originally from.
What is a parent country?
400
Johan Gutenberg's most important invention.
What is the printing press?
400
This empire that existed in the Middle East.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
400
The English poet and playwright who wrote plays like Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
400
This is the peaceful revolution that installed William and Mary as king and queen of England.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
500
This practice was used to fill the shortage of indigenous labor in the Americas.
What is African slavery?
500
French Calvinists went by this name.
What are huguenots?
500
This religion does not have a belief in a god.
What is Buddhism?
500
The absolute monarch of Russia who westernized the empire in the 17th and 18th century.
Who is Peter the Great?
500
The period where people began to think for themselves, and applied reason to their lives.
What is the Enlightenment?