Age of Discovery
America is named after this Italian explorer
Amerigo Vespucci
A female French knight who led the French to many important victories during the Hundreds' Years War.
Joan of Arc
German Monk who wrote 95 Theses; a formal complaint to the Catholic Church.
Martin Luther
Introduction of new foods, diseases, and peoples during the 16th centruy
Columbian Exchange
Mesoamerican civilization that was conquered by Francisco Pizarro in 1532
Incan Empire
GGG
Gold, God, Glory
A time period in which European countries prospered by trading and selling. Also marked the revival of classical Greek and Roman cultures.
Renaissance
The Pope's outcome to Martin Luther's trial.
Excommunicated Luther from Christianity and ordered him to be executed.
A route in which African slave ships traveled from Africa to the Americas. Many Africans died to being thrown overboard or illness.
Middle Passage
Mesoamerican civilization that used highly accurate calendars and mysteriously disappeared before the arrival of the Spanish.
Mayan Civilization
The Big 4 countries that started to colonize The Americas.
Spain
Portugal
France
The Dutch
A focus on secular, or wordly nonreligious, themes rather than religious themes.
Humanism
A Reformist who believed Predestination determines who will go to heaven.
John Calvin
A disease that destroyed Native American populations by 75-90%
Smallpox
Mesoamerican civilization that fell to Hernando Cortes in 1521
Aztec civilization
The highest level of the Spanish colonial class system.
Peninsulares (PEople born in Spain)
A family of Italian banking merchants who "started" The Renaissance. They supported many Renaissance artist such as Da Vinci and Michelangelo.
The Medici's
Predestination
God chooses who goes to heaven, but this privilege can be taken away.
The process of capturing, or trading, for African Slaves and sending them to the Americas to work on large plantations.
The Slave Trade
A type of laborer that only had to work 5-10 years in order to earn their freedom.
Indentured Servant
Spanish Conquistador who took over the Aztec empire in 1521 by killing Aztec leader, Montezuma II.
Hernan Cortes
An invention that helped spread ideas. Build by Johannes Gutenberg.
Printing Press
A tax that citizens of Europe paid in order to absolve their sins and can also send their loved ones to heaven. Martin Luther wanted to ban these.
Indulgences
A land bridge that helped Native Americans come to America.
Bering Strait
An example of a modern day peasant
A student in A108