Age of Discovery
America is named after this Italian explorer
Amerigo Vespucci
Leonardo
Michelangelo
Donatello
Raphael
Renaissance Painters
Introduction of new foods, diseases, and peoples during the 16th centruy
Columbian Exchange
A German Monk who wrote 95 Theses, or formal complaints, about The Catholic Church and the use of indulgences.
Martin Luther
A type of government in which a religious leader is in control.
Ex: John Calvin's government in Geneva, Switzerland
Theocracy
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
A route in which African slave ships traveled from Africa to the Americas. Many Africans died to being thrown overboard or illness.
Middle Passage
A French lawyer who came up with the idea that God already predetermined who will go to heaven.
John Calvin
First British settlement in The United States.
Jamestown
The European countries that started to colonize The Americas.
Spain
Portugal
France
The Dutch
Great Britain
Italy
A focus on secular, or wordly nonreligious, themes rather than religious themes.
Humanism
A disease that destroyed Native American populations by 75-90%
Smallpox
The process of formally banning a person, or kingdom, from Catholic Christianity
Excommunication
A list of things that The Catholic Church would spend indulgence and tithe money on. Need 3
Beautiful homes
Fancy robes
Large banquets
"Maidens"
An Italian explorer and conquistador that is credited with "discovering" America.
Christopher Columbus
A family of Italian banking merchants who "started" The Renaissance. They supported many Renaissance artist such as Da Vinci and Michelangelo.
The Medici's
The process of capturing, or trading, for African Slaves and sending them to the Americas to work on large plantations.
The Slave Trade
An English king who wanted to abandon The Catholic Church so he could divorce his wife due to her not giving him a son.
King Henry VIII
Two cultures that influenced Renaissance Artist
Greek and Roman cultures
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 land bridge that helped Native Americans come to America.
Bering Strait
Martin Luther's formal complaints to The Catholic Church
95 Theses
Two European countries that dominated the fur trade before The British
The Netherlands (The Dutch)
France