Chapter 1
The people of _____ and ______ built the first civilizations.
What is Mesopotamia and Egypt?
Italy has prospered from a flourishing trade that had expanded during this age in time.
What is the Middle Ages?
a release from all or part of punishment for sin by the Catholic Church, reducing time in purgatory after death.
What is Indulgence?
Portuguese fleets began probing southward along the western coast of Africa under the sponsership of this Prince.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
During the French Wars of Religion, the Catholic French Kings persecutred this religion.
What are Protestants?
The claim by Chinese Kings of the Zhou dynasty that they had direct authority from heaven to rule and keep order in the universe.
What is Mandate of Heaven?
A member of the middle class who lived in a city or town.
What is a burgher?
The best-known Christian humanist.
Who is Desiderius Erasmus?
What is joint-stock company?
William of Orange invaded this city to try and keep Protestantism alive.
What is London?
The language became dominant as this culture´s ideas became influential.
What is Greek?
The author of the book The Prince.
WHo is Machiavelli?
The result of Luther being enraged about the fact that indulgences do not forgive sin.
What are The Ninety-Five Theses?
This led to a dramatic increase in the slave trade.
What is European expansion?
A political system in which a ruler holds total power
What is absolutism?
Farming settlements began to appear in river valleys and upland areas in this location.
What is Central and South America?
An intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on the study of the humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, morals, philosophy, and history.
What is humanism?
Establishment of a new religious order during the Catholic Reformation.
What are Jesuits?
A person of European descent born in Latin Aerica and living there permanently?
What is a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently?
This man was known as ____ the Terrible because of his ruthless deeds he committed. (Including stabbing his son to death)
Who is Ivan?
One development that the people of America lacked was this.
What is knowledge of firearms?
By mastering the laws of perspective, Masaccio could create the illusion of this.
Protestants believed this was how you would be saved.
What are faith and good works?
The mestizos grew in status overtime because of this factor.
What is increasing numbers?
An artistic style of the seventeenth century caracterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements.
What is baroque?