People
This person discovered the new world while attempting to find a new trade route to India.
Who was Christopher Colombus?
The device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation.
What is a compass?
A rebirth of antiquity or Greco-Roman civilization after the middle ages. An age of recovery after the middle ages or the dark ages. Revived emphasis on individual ability.
What is the Renaissance?
A business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought & sold by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion, evidenced by their shares.
What are joint-stock companies?
What was the Great Schism?
This person is often regarded as the father of humanism.
Who was Petrarch?
This device is a primary control surface used to steer a ship, boat, submarine, hovercraft, aircraft, or other conveyance that moves through a fluid medium.
A sect of humanism that focused on individualism and secularism.
What was Italian Renaissance Humanism?
A banking family that owned monopolies in the mining industry. They went bankrupt after their loans to the Habsburgs were deferred
What was the house of Fugger?
A catastrophe that resulted in one third of Europe dying.
What was the black death?
This person painted the School of Athens.
Who was Raphael?
Charts made by medieval mathematicians and navigators. Useful for short journeys, but not for long ones as they didn’t account for the curvature of the earth
A sect of humanism focused on the belief that anyone studying the humanities should use their knowledge to serve the state.
What was Civic Humanism?
A league of merchants formed in Northern Germanic coastal towns. Established trading bases in many Northern European cities
What was the Hanseatic League?
A multi-generational war between France and England.
What was the 100 years war?
This person is regarded as a forefather of Northern Renaissance art, he notably was the first oil painter.
Who was Jan Van Eyck?
A very simple tool that allows the user to determine his or her latitude by measuring the altitude of a heavenly body.
What is a quadrant?
Common language of an area. Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are all trailblazers in this new form of writing.
What is Vernacular?
Meant to reform the Catholic Church. Passed two decrees, Sacrosancta and Frequens
What was the Council of Constance?
A civil war in England following the 100 years war.
What was the War of the Roses?
This person discovered Brazil for Portugal.
Who was Pedro Cabral?
A triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction.
What is a Lateen Rig?
Dominant economic practice: Total volume of trade was unchangeable, States had to protect their economies
Hoard precious metals
Implement protectionist policies
Promote colonial development
Prosperity of nation depended on their supply of bullion (gold and silver)
Governments should protect/emphasize exports and impose high tariffs on foreign goods
Some state intervention was good
What was mercantilism?
A joint stock company that controlled the majority of the Indian subcontinent. Eventually transferred to the control of the British crown
What was the British East India Company?
There was a population increase around this time which led to inflation, but wages didn’t rise.
What was the price revolution?