Renaissance Remix
This movement focused on human achievements and individual potential.
What is Humanism?
The three main motives for European exploration.
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
The belief that a monarch’s power comes directly from God.
What is Divine Right?
France’s old social system before the Revolution.
What is the Ancien Régime?
Making goods by hand from home before factories.
What is the Cottage Industry?
This invention helped spread ideas quickly and weakened Church control.
What is the printing press?
This 1494 treaty divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This English king broke from the Catholic Church to get a divorce.
Who is King Henry VIII?
The three social classes in France.
What are the First, Second, and Third Estates?
Karl Marx’s term for the working class.
Who are the Proletariat?
This devastating disease weakened the Catholic Church and killed many clergy.
What is the Bubonic (Black) Plague?
The trading of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This German priest criticized indulgences and sparked the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This oath pledged not to disband until France had a constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This inventor created the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This worldview shifted Europe from God-centered to human-centered thinking.
What is Secularism?
This economic system focused on exporting more than importing to gain wealth.
What is Mercantilism?
This Italian thinker believed rulers should be feared rather than loved.Who is Machiavelli?
Who is Machiavelli?
This prison’s storming symbolized the start of the Revolution.What is the Bastille?
What is the Bastille?
The meeting where European powers divided Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Exposure to new cultures during these wars helped spark the Renaissance.
What are the Crusades?
The Spanish labor system that enslaved Native Americans.
What is the Encomienda System?
This astronomical theory claimed the sun, not Earth, was the center of the universe.
What is the Copernican Theory?
This leader of the Reign of Terror was later executed himself.
Who is Robespierre?
The belief Europeans used to justify imperialism based on “survival of the fittest.”
What is Social Darwinism?