Humanism
What is Humanism
What is the movement focused on education and the classics of Ancient Rome and Greece?
Who was the wealthy patron family in Florence?
Medici Family
What was it called when proucts came from the old world to the new world and vice versa?
Columbian Exchange
Who painted the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
What motivated European exploration?
The desire for new trade routes and access to gold, spices, and luxury goods.
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
A key figure in the development of humanism, known for advocating the study of Latin and Greek literature.
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?
The Catholic Monarchs of Spain who unified the country and established a centralized monarchy.
What was the invention that lead to the rapid distribution of knowledge and ideas
The Printing Press
What is the art style that came out of the Northern Renaissance?
Engraving
Name a Navigational tool developed during this period.
The compass, astrolabe, etc
What did humanism encourage people to study?
humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and moral philosophy.
Who painted the Last Supper using Perspective?
Leonardo Da Vinci
Queen Isabella would allow for "church police" to check in on individuals that were belived to worship another religion and arrest and torture them.
What was the "Book of the Courtier" about?
It was a book that explained the ideal qualities of a Renaissance man or women.
What is mercantilism?
An economic policy that emphasizes the importance of state power through wealth accumulation.
What was the impact of humanism on Renaissance art?
Shifting the focus from purely religious subjects to human experience and emotion
Who wrote Utopia?
Thomas More
What was the Great Schism?
It was when there were two popes, one in Rome and one in France and it created a divide in the catholic church.
What effect did the Renaissance have on art and Literature at the time?
it made people look more at what was going on in everyday life and not just religious ideas and life after death.
How did the Columbian Exchange impact Europe?
It led to the transfer of goods, plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
How did humanism influence literature during the Renaissance?
a greater focus onhuman experience, individualism, and secular themes.
Who was the "German Leonardo"?
Albrecht Durer
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
It defined a line of colonization of where the Spanish and the Portuguese could set up colonies.
Who wrote "The Prince"
Niccolo Machiavelli
What was the role of Prince Henry the Navigator?
He established navigation schools in Portugal to improve maritime exploration.