Renaissance
What is the Renaissance?
He was the father of Humanism.
Who is Petrarch?
What is France?
This Church office attempted to root our heresy and ensure orthodoxy.
What is the Inquisition?
These were the motives of the Age of Discovery.
What are God, Glory, and Gold?
The center of the early Italian Renaissance.
What is Florence?
What is anthropocentric?
This conflict witnessed factions of the Plantagenet dynasty fighting for the throne.
What is the War of the Roses?
What is the Reformation?
Due to their growth, along with wealth and technological advancements, exploration flourished during Age of Discovery.
What is centralized monarchies?
His great achievement was creating a domed structured that didn't overwhelm the worshipper, but comforted him.
Who is Brunelleschi?
What is history?
Their dynastic union led to the reconquest of Spain from the Muslims and solidified religious uniformity.
Who are Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile?
Popes relied on this practice in an effort to secure their secular interests and make up for their lack of hereditary dynasties.
What is nepotism?
As leaders in the early age of exploration, the Portuguese focused their efforts on these two resources, one in Africa and the other in the East.
What are gold and spices?
His artistic attempt to idealize and perfect the human person led to his most famous works: the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.
Who is DaVinci?
This led to the spread of ideas and a larger lay reading public.
What is the printing press?
This dynasty ruled over the Holy Roman Empire, involved themselves in marriage alliances across Europe, and were faithfully Catholic.
Who are the Habsburgs?
The name given for the new territory in the west, discovered by Columbus, and thriving with native civilizations.
What is the New World?
His depiction of the creation and fall of man on the Sistine Chapel stands as one of the greatest reflections of divine beauty during the Renaissance period.
Who is Michelangelo?
He stated that a ruler should rather be feared than loved (if he cannot be both).
Who is Machiavelli?
This year witnessed the Ottoman seige of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire.
What is 1453?
He was a member of the Medici family and drained the papal treasury in efforts to increase his private art collection.
Who is Leo X?
The reciprocal importation and exportation of diseases, plants, animals, and peoples between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?