Renaissance & Reformation
A technique used by Renaissance painters to create depth and a 3D effect in their art
What is perspective?
This Italian invented the telescope, and was later put on trial by the Catholic Church for publishing his scientific findings.
Who is Galileo?
Gold, Glory and God are often cited as the primary motivation for this.
What is European exploration?
This movement was named this because thinkers and writers were shining “light” on topics that hadn’t been examined before.
What is the Enlightenment?
Before 1750, most governments were this form of government.
What is a monarchy?
He wrote the 95 theses that started the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
Nicholas Copernicus proposed this new theory of the universe that we still believe in today.
What is the Copernican Universe?
This phenomenon was a result of European colonization in the Americas, and caused the death of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This revolution was fought against the British, in large part because of unwanted taxes.
What is the American Revolution?
This swept through Europe before the Renaissance.
What is the plague?
These were sold by the Catholic Church so that rich people could buy their way to heaven.
What are indulgences?
The Catholic Church, and the old world, believed in this version of the universe.
What is the Ptolemaic Universe?
This was the name for the brutal transport of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic starting in the 1500s.
What is the middle passage?
Who is John Locke?
These revolutions were inspired by the French Revolution, and their calls for "liberty, equality and fraternity"
What are the Latin American Revolutions?
This philosophy placed value in individuals and education, rather than in religion or the supernatural.
What is humanism?
Another term for the Copernican Universe is this.
What is heliocentric?
These two countries colonized most of Meso and South America during the Age of Exploration
Who are Spain and Portugal?
The Haitian Revolution was fought against this oppressive European power.
Who are the French?
The reason that Europeans engaged in this abhorrent trade across the Atlantic was largely because it was profitable.
What is the slave trade?
Protestants believed in this idea, that God had already decided who was going to heaven or hell before they were even born.
What is predestination?
This process, still used by scientists today, came from the idea that the truth can only be found through investigation.
What is the scientific method?
An example of this was the incorporation of indigenous rituals into Catholic traditions in Spanish colonial Mexico.
What is syncretism?
This term refers to the right of a country or a people to govern themselves.
What is sovereignty?
The name for this cultural movement means "rebirth"
What is the Renaissance?