The Basics
and terms
and terms
The word Renaissance means...
A rebirth. Europe enjoyed a rebirth of learning and exploration during the Renaissance.
He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He also scuplted a statue called "David".
Michelangelo
English explorer who would first sail to Canada during the Age of Exploration.
John Cabot
King of Portugal whose ultimate goal was to find a water route around Africa to India.
King Henry the Navigator
He invented the Printing Press. This invention change a lot!!!! All people can read all the time!!!
Johannes Guttenberg
This was a form of art in which artists tried to make images and people in their painting look like "real life."
Realism
He was a true Renaissance MAN. He was an inventor, painter, artis, scientist and much more!! He painted the Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
His voyage and crew became the first explorers on the planet in the history of time to circumnavigate the world. (be sure to know what circumnavigate means)
Ferdinand Magellan
They were the King and Queen that supported the voyage of Christopher Columbus,
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
He wrote The Prince, which is a book about government, leadership and ruling a group of people. He did not care if people were afraid of him!
Niccolo Machiavelli
"It is better to be feared than loved."
This individual or individuals (term) had financial resources and they supported artists. They also would support individuals during the Age of Exploration
Patrons
He was an Italian trader and explorer who traveled throughout the Far East and China for much of his life (24 years). He wrote a book about his journey:
Marco Polo
He was the first individual to sail to the Carribean Islands in 1492. He thought he had found a way to the present-day country of India. That is why he called the natives of these islands "Indians."
Christopher Columbus
He was the first explorer to make it to, India and back to Portugal!
Vasco da Gama
These people were a powerful people with money in the 1500s...AKA people with money/bankers....thank goodness they supported the artistic movement of the Renaissance!!! :)
The Meddeci Family
_____ were sold to remove sin from yourself or a family member that has passed away.
Indulgences
He lived in Florence and wrote the Divine Comedy in the early 1300s. This book is considered to be the greatest literary work ever written in the Italian language.
Dante Alighieri.
First to realize that Columbus found a “New World”, Americas named after him.
Amerigo Vespucci
What were three new advancements of technology during the Age of Exploration
The Compass, Caravels and Astrolabes
Who is considered to be the Father of Humanism. He lived in Florence, Italy?
Petrarch
What were the spices used for?
They were used to preserve food, make medicines and perfumes.
Give two cause of the Protestant Reformation
Indulgences and the power and wealth of the Church.
Who of these explorers didn't sail for Spain? A) Christopher Colombus B) Vasco Da Gama C) Juan Díaz de Solís
Vasco Da Gama
Name the moste relevant cause of the European Expansion
The fall of Constantinople under the power of the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
Who called the new continent "America" for the first time? Where was he?
Martin Waldseemuller. He was in a monastery. He was a German catographer.