Renaissance Important Individuals
Popular northern renaissance scholar and humanist who wrote Praise of Folly and corrected errors in the Latin vulgate Bible
Who was Erasmus?
Individual who sailed in 1492 with the intent of finding a separate route to Asia but instead discovered ares of the New World.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
The three main motives for Spanish conquistadors/explorers
What were God, gold and glory?
The meaning of renaissance
What is rebirth?
Inventor of the Printing press.
Who was Gutenberg?
Important family who worked in banking, but declined in 1494
Who was the Medici family?
Individual who first reached the Cape of Good Hope
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
The explorer who discovered the Incas in Peru and made Lima the new Spanish empire capital.
Who was Francisco Pizzaro?
a movement based on Roman humanities for the laymen, founded by Petrarch.
What was humanism?
The route from Africa to the Americas in the Columbian exchange that carried slaves and was highly unsanitary.
What was the middle passage?
Helped restore latin to its proper vernacular
Who was Lorenzo Valla?
Individual who went across the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean
Who was Vaseo Nunez de Balboa?
The economic/social system made by Queen Isabella as an "exchange". Cultural education and evangelism to the natives if the natives worked for the Spanish.
What was the encomienda system?
Characteristics include: frescoes, classical proportions, mathematic precision and civic humanism.
What was art like in the Italian Renaissance?
-Relying on families and building family interest up (to put them in jobs), used some by Renaissance popes.
Individual who wrote "The Prince", believing that a ruler should prioritize being feared over being loved.
Individual known for making a school for navigators
Who was Prince Henry?
Mesoamerican civilization captured by Hernan Cortes most notably known for its capital Tenochtitlan.
Who were the Aztecs?
Characteristics included: shading and modeling, anatomical realism, and linear perspective
What was art like with the Florentine Renaissance?
A court created by Henry VII where torture is allowed and there are no juries.
What was the Court of Star Chamber?
Artist who was known for his usage of linear perspective
Who was Filippio Brunelleschi?
-Admiral who forcefully established Portuguese spice trade centers, ultimately leading to the complete control of the spice trade by Portugal.
Who was Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque?
Representatives of royalty with audiencias (advisory groups).
Who were viceroys?
Exposition of Plato's philosophies
What was neoplatonism?
The name of the intermarriage between Europeans and Native Americans.
Who were the mestizos?