American Empires
Mayan, Aztec, and Incan.
Name the two Chinese dynasties we discussed?
Ming and Qing.
Heliocentric Theory.
The Renaissance began in what country?
Italy
What invention did Johann Gutenberg create?
The Printing Press
Human Sacrifices.
Which royal family ruled Japan from 1603 1867.
A key outcome of the Scientific Revolution was the development of the ____________.
The Catholic Church.
What were Indulgences?
pardons from sin that a person could purchase for them or a family member that would wipe away sin to lessen the threat of Hell.
Mayans had their own written language with over how many glyphs?
800
Europeans decided to expand due to a number of factors:
Desire for wealth, desire for glory, desire for God.
Gravity and Motion.
Name on of Leonardo da Vinci's famous works?
Mona Lisa, Last Supper, Vitruvian Man.
Martin Luther
The Aztecs built a city on the lake called what.
Tenochtitlan.
What was the diseases that killed a large majority of the South America Empires we learned about?
Small Pox.
Adams Smith's book the __________________ laid the foundations for modern economics.
The Wealth of Nations.
What term is an intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements.
Humanism
Johann Tetzel started the construction of which project for the Catholic Church because of the indulgences Tetzel had gotten from the people?
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
What crops did these American empires typically grow?
Maize, beans, squash, and tomatoes.
Natives were often forced to work in terrible conditions on sugar plantations due which system?
Encomienda System.
Thomas Hobbes argued that people were what?
What is the term that embraced the works of the Greeks and Romans and loved humanism.
Northern Renaissance
During the German Peasant's Revolt Martin Luther joined whose side of the revolt?
The Church and the Nobility.