Middle Ages
This deadly disease spread along trade routes in the 1300s.
What is the Black Death-Bubonic Plague?
This movement focused on human potential and classical learning.
What is humanism?
This European nation led early exploration along the African coast.
What is Portugal?
This type of ruler held complete political power.
Who is an absolute monarch?
This process uses observation, experimentation, and reasoning and usually employs 5-6 steps.
What is the scientific method?
This political, economic, & social system organized society around land, loyalty, and protection.
What is feudalism?
This invention allowed books and ideas to spread more quickly than ever before.
What is the printing press?
These three motives drove European exploration during the 1400s and 1500s.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
This belief justified a king’s authority as coming from God.
What is divine right?
This theory stated that Earth revolves around the sun.
What is the heliocentric theory?
This institution dominated medieval religion, education, and politics.
What is the Catholic Church?
This artist painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and was considered the ideal Renaissance Man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This technology made long-distance sea travel safer and more reliable.
What is the caravel / compass / astrolabe?
This French king famously said "I am the state" and ruled for over 70 years.
Who is Louis XIV?
This scientist used telescopes to support heliocentrism and was tried and placed under house arrest for the duration of his life.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This document limited the power of the English king in 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
This reformer challenged Church practices in the Ninety-Five Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
The transferral of crops, animals, people, and diseases between continents.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This palace symbolized royal power and absolute control in France.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
This Enlightenment thinker argued for natural rights like life and liberty.
Who is John Locke?
These self-sufficient communities formed the economic base of medieval life.
What are manors?
This religious movement led to the creation of Protestant churches.
What is the Reformation?
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)?
1. This absolute ruler traveled in disguise around Europe and adopted Western ideas to strengthen the state.
2. What country did he rule?
1. Who is Peter the Great?
2. What is Russia?1. This Enlightenment idea promoted dividing governments into different parts, or branches, that would share power and keep each other in check?
2. What Enlightenment thinker created this idea?
1. What is separation of powers?
2. Who is Montesquieu?