Renaissance
Reformation
Exploration
Trade
New World
100
What does Renaissance literally mean?
Rebirth
100
What is the Reformation?
a religious, political, and intellectual movement in the 16th century that split Catholic Europe into Roman Catholicism and Protestantism
100
What diseases had the greatest impact on Native Americans?
Smallpox, measles, influenza
100
What is the term for the transfer of diseases, people, crops, animals, and culture between the Old World and the New World?
Columbian Exchange
100
When the Spanish conquered the New World what advantages did they have over Native Americans?
Iron/Steel weapons, diseases
200
What is the name of the type of peasant that is tied to the land for their whole lives?
Serf
200
What invention in 1440 allowed the spread of Reformation ideas more quickly than ever before
Johannes Gutenberg's Printing Press
200
Why was the caravel better than the cog?
lateen sail, rudder, bigger, canons, more defenses, compass, astrolabe, etc.
200
What is the term for the trade system established by Europeans between the Americas, Europe, and Africa also known as Triangle Trade?
Atlantic System
200
What system of racial hierarchy was used in New Spain?
Casta System
300
Renaissance- human figures, realistic
300
What is the term for the tool that the Catholic Church used to forgive people of their sins if they donated money?
Indulgence
300
What city was conquered by the Muslim Ottoman Empire that cut Europe off from trade on the Silk Road?
Constantinople
300
What is the middle passage?
The route across the atlantic that was used for transporting slaves
300
What was the Spanish system of forced labor that saw the torture and killing of Native Americans in the New World?
Encomienda system
400
What English writer and playwright was responsible for spreading Renaissance ideas to England?
William Shakespeare
400
What English king started the Reformation in England because the Catholic Church wouldn't grant him a divorce from his first wife? (He went on to have 5 more wives)
Henry VIII
400
What Portuguese prince gathered experts in ship making and sailing to his home in Sagres and started the European age of exploration?
Prince Henry the Navigator
400
What crop was most important to the development of slavery?
Sugar
400
What Spanish Priest preached against the mistreatment of Native Americans in the New World
Bartolome de las Casas
500
What is Humanism?
a non-religious philosophy that emphasizes the potential of human beings and their ability to shape their own lives
500
What event started the Catholic Church's counter-reformation to fight against the Reformation?
Council of Trent
500
What two places did most explorers desire to find sea routes to?
China and India
500
What empire traded slaves with Europe in order to gain access to goods like guns, sugar, rum, and textiles?
Ashanti Empire
500
What is the term for the people who are of mixed Indian and Spanish Heritage in the New World?
Mestizo