Renaissance & Humanism
This means “rebirth” and was a time when Europeans revived interest in Greek and Roman culture.
What is the Renaissance?
This German monk criticized indulgences and helped start the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This empire captured Constantinople in 1453 and controlled key trade routes between Europe and Asia.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Christopher Columbus sailed west to get to this place.
What is Asia?
This term describes the movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This intellectual movement focused on human potential, secular learning, and classical texts and not religion.
What is humanism?
This document, posted in 1517, listed Luther’s complaints about Church abuses.
What are the 95 Theses?
The Ottomans, Safavids, and the Mongols were know as this kind of empires.
What are gunpowder empires?
Sailors used these tools to tell which direction they were heading and what was their position at sea.
What is the compass and astrolabe?
This South American crop greatly increased European and Asian population when it spread there because it was easy to grow.
This is one of the family from Florence (one of the Italian City-States) supported artists because of their wealth.
Who is the Medici Family?
This idea from Calvinism is that God has already decided whether you would go to hell or heaven.
What is predestination?
Zheng He led a huge fleet around Asia under this dynasty.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
The Treaty of Tordesillas divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal negotiated by this religious figure.
Who is the Pope?
In this trade pattern, European ships carried enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas.
What is the triangular trade? (Middle Passage)
This Renaissance writer argued that rulers should use practical methods to gain and keep power in his book titled "The Prince."
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
The Catholic Church held this meeting to end corruption and indulgences.
What is the Council of Trent?
This Indian dynasty blended Persian and Indian culture and ruled a large Muslim empire in South Asia.
What is the Mongol Empire?
One big reason Europeans wanted sea routes to Asia was to avoid paying high prices to these middlemen.
Who are the gunpowder empires or Ottomans?
This Spanish labor system gave settlers control over Native workers and land, leading to harsh treatment.
What is the encomienda system?
This is where the Renaissance began because of their trade routes with the middle east.
What is Italy or the Italian City-States?
This radical Christian group believed in adult baptism and also a separation of Church and State.
Who are the Anabaptists?
Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate had this policy to keep foreigners out but was eventually forced to open by the United States.
What is isolation?
These businesses let many investors share the risks and profits of overseas voyages.
What are joint-stock companies?
This economic theory said a country should export more than it imports to build a strong state with gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?