Renaissance
What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
Who accidentally discover America by trying to sail to India?
Christopher Columbus
How did Catholics believe their churches should be decorated?
Heavily decorated
Who id Monarchs believe they were sent by because they were rulers?
God
What was the disease that caused the Black Death?
Y-Pestis
What three cities started the Renaissance?
Milan, Florence, and Venice
What were the four things exchanged through the Columbian Exchange?
Diseases, animals, plants, and people
Who was the Father of the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
What does Absolutism mean?
All power or unrestrictive power
What is Italy's geography?
Peninsula
What were the four classes of the Renaissance?
Clergy, nobility, townspeople, and peasants
Why was it easy for the conquistadors to take over the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans?
Diseases and better weapons
Who invented the Printing Press?
Johannes Gutenberg
Why would King Louis build his Palace of Versailles amongst the poor?
To show his power and wealth
What means to separate your country from alliance, and other international political economic relations?
Isolationism
Why did education increase during the Renaissance?
More books, Printing Press, Better jobs
What was the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
The exchange of Africans to the Americas
Who was the King of England that broke from the Catholic Church?
Henry VIII
What were the two factors that helped to cause inflation during the Age of Absolutism?
Gold/silver and over population
What does Heliocentric mean?
Sun centered solar system
Name one way that Renaissance paintings were different than Middle Age paintings.
Less religious and more realistic
What is the extension of power of one nation over a weaker nation?
Imperialism
When was the Ninety-five Thesis nailed to the Wittenberg Church door?
October 31, 1517
Who believed that people should be ruled by an absolute monarch unless that monarch takes away your natural rights?
John Locke
Why was the scientific method important?
Made experiments more accurate