Society, Religion, and the Arts
Humanism emphasized the study of these classical cultures
What are Greece and Rome?
Sponsored by Spain, this explorer landed in the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
With international trade growing, these financial institutions expanded rapidly during the Renaissance
What are banks?
These monarchs centralized power in Spain with the Reconquista and by sponsoring exploration of the New World.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized literacy and knowledge in Europe.
What is the printing press?
This was the name for the idea that artists and thinkers are worthy of fame and praise, often tied to Renaissance self-consciousness
What is individualism?
This agreement divided the non-European world between Spain and Portugal in 1494.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This Italian family became wealthy and influential partly through banking.
Who are the Medicis?
The concept of realpolitik can be seen in this Machiavellian work of political advice.
What is The Prince?
The Renaissance focus on secularism led thinkers to question the authority of which institution?
What is the Catholic Church?
He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David.
Who is Michelangelo?
This system of forced labor allowed Spanish land owners in the New World to force indigenous people to work on plantations and in mines
What is encomienda?
Name one of the key products exchanged along the Columbian Exchange that transformed European* agriculture.
What is the potato or maize/corn?
The Act of Supremacy, under this king, broke England away from the Catholic Church
Who was Henry VIII?
These types of farms were focused on commercial activity around cash crops, and depended on forced labor
What are plantations?
This Italian city is often considered the birthplace of the Renaissance
What is Florence?
The conquest of this powerful Mesoamerican empire was led by Hernán Cortés.
What is the Aztec Empire?
A new system that emphasized private ownership and the profit motive in a market economy.
What is capitalism?
This land tax was used by French kings to gather royal income and establish a standing army.
This population crisis lead to the collapse of the feudal system in Western Europe
What is the Black Death or Plague of 1347?
This Dutch humanist criticized the Church in In Praise of Folly
Who is Erasmus?
Portuguese explorer who first reached India by sailing around Africa.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This joint-stock company was valued at nearly $8 trillion by today's standards at its peak
What is the Dutch East India Company?
This law court was used by Henry VII of England to check the power of nobility
What is the Star Chamber?
The fall of this city to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 helped transfer classical knowledge to Europe
What is Constantinople?