Social Studies 101
The geographic lines on a map to identify how far north or south a location is from the equator
What is latitude?
The birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.
What is Florence?
Statue of David
The Creation of Adam
St. Peter's Basilica
Who is Michelangelo?
Raw Materials -> Manufactured Goods - > Slaves
What is the Triangular Trade?
The meaning behind Copernicus' heliocentric theory.
What is a sun-centered universe?
The geographic lines used on a map to determine how far east or west a location is from the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
The infamous family of patrons who established the city of Florence.
What is the Medici family?
The Black Death broke up this social structure after it killed 2/3 of the European population and allowed for people to move out of their social class due to demand for laborers.
What is feudalism?
The three motivations for European Explorers.
What is gold, glory, and God?
The developer of the universal law of gravity
Who is Isaac Newton?
The system of government that bases its laws around religion.
What is theocracy?
The ends justifies the means.
Who is Machiavelli?
This group of people was blamed for spreading the Black Death because of their ritual bathing.
Who are the Jews?
We can thank this trade between Europe and the Americas for Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, BBQ, and the flu.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The torture chamber the Catholic Church put Galileo in once he used his telescope to prove planets orbit the sun.
What is the Inquisition?
The economic system where citizens have the right to private property and can own their own business. Limited government involvement.
What is capitalism or a market economy?
Vitruvian Man
The Last Supper
Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
What is the 95 Theses?
Spanish explorers who conquered land for their mother country.
Hernan Cortez - Aztecs
Juan Ponce de Leon - Puerto Rico
Francisco Pizarro - Peru
What are conquistadors?
The Church that was tolerant of new scientific discoveries.
What is the Church of England?
The law of basic economic principles where the value of a product is based on how badly people want the product and how much product is available.
What is supply and demand?
A sect or branch of religion. There are 41,000 since the Protestant Reformation led by Martin Luther.
What is a denomination?
The most valuable innovation used to spread the 95 Theses and the new German translation of the Bible.
What is the Printing Press?
The condition of being mutually reliant on each other.
What is interdependence?
Freedom of Religion
Separation of Church and State
Who is Voltaire?