History unit 2 study guide

Slavery in African and Muslim societies differ from slavery in the Americas because of the amount of slaves needed (Idk)

What was the “movement” that focused on faith more than achievements?

What was the most important item traded in the 1400s?

What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

Who created the printing press from the movable type

A spanish explorer who marched through present day Panama and is the first European to see the Pacific.

The Medici family were wealthy royals.

The trading network that slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, etc.

A Portuguese explorer who reached the shores of modern-day Brazil.

Writer in the Elizabethan age who was the greatest playwright of all time. Drew on the classics for inspiration.

Land controlled by another nation

A Spanish explorer who led a exploration through present day Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

Aztec emperor that the empire began to weaken under.

A economic system based on private ownership and investments of money is called capitalism.

What was the Praise of Folly about?

Who was a famous German artist that made woodcuts and engravings? He focused on religious subjects and myths.

What was the Medici family famous for?

A person who excels in many fields. Called a “universal man”.

What is an intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements?

Explored the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi River

Wrote Decameron. Is a Italian writer. Helped lay the foundation for humanism.

Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?

Who created oil-based paints, layered paints, and created new colors to paint with?

How did African merchants,rulers, colonization of Americas, and settlements of Brazil contribute to African slave trade

Who was Vasco de Gama

A Frenchman who found St. Lawrence and named Montreal.

Who was a painter, sculptor, inventor, and scientist who was “a true Renaissance man”. He painted the Mona Lisa.

What factors led to the renaissance in Europe?

Landed on the shores of Mexico. Colonized several Caribbean islands.

How did writers reflect the renaissance values in their work?

Created by the Chinese and used for sailing.

The Virginia Company is an example of a joint stock company

What treaty split the land/sea between Spain and Portugal?

What was Laura about?

A grant of land by Spain to a settler in the Americas, includes the right to use Native Americans as laborers.

A person who financially supported artists.

Gutenberg made the printing press.

What helped to increase the slave trade in Africa during the 17th century?

What are differences between the Middle Ages and renaissance?

Who was a historian, political thinker and wrote the Prince?

Catholic priest wanted to convert natives to their religion.

An Incan ruler who was kidnaped

A Italian explorer who discovered present day New York harbor.

Who is one of the best known humanist who wrote the Praise of folly?

The earliest and most influential humanist. A great poet who wrote in Italian and Latin. Wrote sonnets about Laura.

What was the prince about?

What are the Positive and negative results of Columbian Exchange?

When did the renaissance occur?

Who was a sculptor who made them more realistic by using natural postures? He made the bronze David.

Why did the Pilgrims leave Britain and head to North America?

Christopher Columbus sailed on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria and went to find South America.

The line separating Spain and Portugal is called the line of Decameron.

Favorable balance of power is when Spain and Portugal split the lands. (Idk)

The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later north and South America.

Who was Bartolomeu Dias?

What country created moveable type that later became a printing press?

Painted realistically and portrayed large numbers of people. Used rich colors and vivid details.

What was the purpose of most joint-stock companies 1500s-1600s?

Vernacular is when someone uses their native language.

Who studied under Michelangelo and Leonardo? He painted the Madonnas and filled Pope Julius II’s library with paintings.

What was utopia about?

A Spanish soldier, explorer, and fortune hunter who took part in the conquest of the Americas.

Lorenzo de Medici was also known as the magnificent. He was a fair and even governor with a elected government

Why was Italy the birthplace of the renaissance?

Which area of North American was originally founded as a settlement for the Dutch?

Usury is also called prayer.

What was the Columbian Exchange?

An Italian serving Portugal who traveled along the Eastern coast of South America.

3 G’s is God, glory, and gluttony.

Who led a Spanish expedition to the Philippines?

What are some the consequences of the African slave trade?

A priest that spoke out against the cruel treatment of natives.

Henry Hudson found the city Hudson.

Who was a sculptor, poet, architect, and painter. He painted the Sistine chapel.

A Spanish explorer who helped conquer Puerto Rico and sailed with Christopher Columbus.

Marched a small force into South America and kidnaped Atahualpa.

Perspective is when an artist shows three dimensions on a flat surface.

The wealthiest European of his time.won control of Florence’s government. A banker. Dictator for 30 years.

The Dutch East India Company was poorer than the English company and was kicked out by them

1st European country to import African slaves was Britain.

Who was a German artist who painted pictures of royalty?

A mestizo is a person of mixed Portuguese and Native American ancestry.

What did Europeans want to find on their explorations?

Was used to determine their location at sea. Muslims perfected it.

A French explorer who found Quebec.

Who wrote Utopia in Latin and was a famous humanist

A new ship made in the 1400s, had triangular sails.

Explored the lower Mississippi River and claimed the entire valley for France.