Italian Renaissance
Northern Renaissance
New Monarchies
Age of Exploration
Columbian Exchange
100

The Italian Renaissance was a period of time where people began rediscovering classical texts from these two cultures:

Greece and Rome

100

This invention, created during the Northern Renaissance, helped spread literacy across Europe.

The Printing Press

100

In 1469, these rulers unified Spain under what was to become known as a classic "New Monarchy"

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
100

In 1492, this man discovered the New World

Columbus

100

Europeans were most interested in what resource at the VERY BEGINNING of the Columbian Exchange?

Gold

200

This Renaissance belief attaches prime importance to human matters, thought, and actions rather than divine or supernatural powers:

Humanism

200

Artistically, the Northern Renaissance focused on what areas of life that differed from the Italian Renaissance?

Everyday life

200

Under Henry VIII, this 1534 act placed him as the Head of Church in England and allowed him to control religion.

Act of Supremacy

200

What belief was used to justify abusive treatment toward indigenous populations?

Spread of Christianity

200

What did Africa provide for the Columbian Exchange?

Slaves

300

This Italian Renaissance art development attempts to accurately depict subjects in great detail.

Naturalism

300

In 1431, this religious reformer was burned at the stake for critiquing the greed and status-obsessed clergy of the Catholic Church

Jan Hus

300

In terms of the military, what major development did New Monarchies create?

Professional standing armies.

300

This economic practice depending on the growth of colonial markets overseas.

Mercantilism

300

What did indigenous Americans receive from the Europeans that ultimately decimated (literally) 90% of their population?

Smallpox, measles, disease

400

The Italian Renaissance was made possible politically by the organization of...

City-States

400

This artist is a key Northern Renaissance painter.

Bruegel

400
What two developments diminished the clergy, leaving them unable to block the power of growing monarchies?

Hundred Years' War

Great Schism

400

This European country/people used some of the first privatized companies to manage overseas exploration and development.

Dutch

400

This voyage was deadly for slaves, resulting in nearly 20% dead of all those that journeyed.

The Middle Passage

500

These two values most directly challenged the authority of the Catholic Church during the Italian Renaissance:

Secularism and individualism

500

This development was influenced by the Northern Renaissance's focus on secular values and religious reform.

The Protestant Reformation.

500

These three characteristics exemplify new monarchies.

1. Monopoly on Taxes

2. Employing military

3. Control on religion through reform

500

These three factors prompted European exploration:

1. Navigation technology

2. Military technology

3. Cartography

500

This development was a period of high inflation, commercialized agriculture, and new products all from the Columbian Exchange.

Price Revolution