The Renaissance
What led to the Renaissance
Interaction between different cultures, the rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman texts, the emergence of humanism, and different artistic and technological innovations
What tools were used during the Scientific revolution
Telescopes, microscopes, barometers and thermometers
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, and central to southern Mexico.
What big disease killed 3/4 of the Indian populations of North and South America
Small Pox
What is the 95 thesis
Propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences, and possibly posted by Martin Luther on the door of the Schlosskirche Castle Church.
Who were one of the most important artists during the Renaissance
Michelangelo and Raphael
Who are the Key figures in the Scientific Revolution
Nicolas Copernicus, Francis Bacon, and Rene Descartes
What was the Triple Alliance
(1428-1521) was a military and political pact among three city-states who shared lands in the Basin of Mexico
Who was Bartolome De Las Casas
Spanish historian and Dominican missionary who was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there.
Who were the key people of the Reformation
Martin Luther and John Calvin.
Who were the key figures in the Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Byrd, Niccolo Machiavelli, Giotto, Dante, Thomas Hobbes, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galileo, Rene Descartes, and Erasmus.
The geocentric model says that the earth is at the center of the cosmos or universe, and the planets, the sun and the moon, and the stars circles around it. The early heliocentric models consider the sun as the center, and the planets revolve around the sun.
Who were the Mayans
They developed the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in pre-Columbian Americas as well as for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system.
Who was prince Henry the navigator
He launched the first great European voyages of exploration. He sought new lands and sources of revenue for his kingdom and dynasty and searched for eastern Christian allies against Islam.
What did Martin Luther do?
His central teachings, that the Bible is the central source of religious authority and that salvation is reached through faith and not deeds, shaped the core of Protestantism
What are the characteristics of Renaissance art
Individualism, realism, and classicism
What is the Scientific Method
The process in the scientific method involves making conjectures (hypotheses), deriving predictions from them as logical consequences, and then carrying out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions.
Who were the Aztecs
From their magnificent capital city, Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs emerged as the dominant force in central Mexico, developing an intricate social, political, religious and commercial organization that brought many of the region's city-states under their control by the 15th century.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas was agreed upon by the Spanish and the Portuguese to clear up confusion on newly claimed land in the New World
What was the counter reformation
The period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation.
What were the key cities in the Renaissance
Rome, and Florence
What is the Scientific Revolution, and what led to the Scientific Revolution
The growth of humanism during the Renaissance. Humanist artists and writers spent much of their time studying the natural world. This interest in the natural world carried forward into the Scientific Revolution.
Who were the Incas
In 1400 Ad they were a small highland tribe, one hundred years later in the early 16th century the Incas rose to conquer and control the largest empire ever seen in the Americas.
What was the Colombian Exchange
was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, the Old World, and West Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What led to the Reformation
The Reformation began with Henry VIII's quest for a male heir. When Pope Clement VII refused to annul Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon so he could remarry