Renaissance
Revival of Greek and Roman Classics and intellectual and artistic creativity
What was the Renaissance?
The first well known Humanist was....
Who is Petrarch?
This started because of corruption in the church and the payment of indulgences.
What is the reformation?
Why did the Age of Exploration begin?
Merchants wanted to bypass the Crusades and find a sea route to Asia.
This region ran along the Niger River, had Islamic influence such religion, culture, Arabic language and Timbuktu was the main trading center (gold and salt)
What was Western Africa?
What were the causes of the Renaissance?
The plague and competition between the city-states.
Great English playwright who wrote tragedies and comedies.
Who was Shakespeare?
German monk who wrote the 95 theses?
Who is Martin Luther?
Why did the Spice Islands become a center of trade?
Spices preserved food, flavor food and was used for medicine and for perfumes
Mali, which means “where the king dwells” lasted from 1200 to 1500 AD. Its greatest ruler was...
Who was Mansa Musa?
Soldier, chivalry, educated, and worldly
What is the ideal Renaissance Man?
Who wrote "The Prince" which explained how to gain and keep power?
Machiavelli
What was Martin Luther's new church called?
The Lutheran Church
Italian merchant who traveled to China with uncle and father, became friends with Chinese ruler Khan and stayed 24 years; returned to Europe wealthy
Who was Marco Polo?
This explorer discovered "America" in 1492 for the King and Queen of Spain....
Who was Columbus?
Mona Lisa and The Last Supper were two examples of art by....
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
Theory that the planets rotated around the sun...
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
This English king left the Catholic church because the Pope would not let him get divorced?
Who was Henry VIII?
The Norse from Greenland, first Europeans to colonize the New World (500 years before Columbus) and got no credit for “discovering” America because discoveries didn’t lead to colonization
Who were the Vikings?
This explorer was Portuguese and was the first to navigate the earth....
Who was Magellan?
This artist completed the sculpture David and painted the Sistine Chapel....
Who is Michelangelo?
Scientific theories caused issues with what church?
The Catholic Church
Church courts that put heretics on trial; tortured and executed the guilty
What is the Inquisition?
He was from Portugal, led the way in exploration, started a school for navigation, used new maritime technology and explored West Africa
Who was Henry The Navigator?
Trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, Europe contributed firearms and manufacturing products, slaves were taken from Africa and traded for goods (Triangular Trade) and agricultural products were taken from the New World (corn, sugarcane, rum) and given to Europe
What is the Columbian Exchange?