Flashcards
Renaissnace
Cards in this deck (18)
- 1RenaissanceTerms means rebirth; following the Middle Ages an explosion of creativity in art, writing, that started in northern Italy 1300's-1600's. Artists like Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci were sponsored by wealthy patrons;
- 2Key Characteristics of the Renaissance-Renewed interest in the ancient Greeks & Romans
-Humanism emphasized achievements of man & makes human being not God the center of attention.
- 3Leonardo da VinciA painter, inventor, scientist a good example of a "Renaissance man". He painted the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa.
- 4MichelangeloPainted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and did the sculpture David and the La Pieta.
- 5SecularismUsed to describe the Renaissance. comes from the word secular, meaning of this world. A Medieval person was concerned with religion and the next world. A Renaissance person interested in THIS WORLD.
- 6Protestant ReformationA split in the Catholic Church where a new type of Christianity called Protestantism was born. (This new sect did not recognize the authority of the pope.)
- 7Martin LutherIn 1517 (one five one seven, that) a German monk took a list of 95 points where he thought the Church had gone wrong and nailed it to the door of a Catholic Church.
- 8Sale of IndulgencesThis practice allowed people to be forgiven of their sins when they paid the church money.
- 9English ReformationA separate split in England from the Catholic Church.
- 10King Henry VIIIBreaks away from the Catholic Church in Rome so he can divorce his wife and have a son. create his own church called the Church of England aka The Anglican Church.
- 11Johannes GutenbergInvented moveable type & the printing press. Printing press allowed for quick cheap book production. More books caused an increase in learning & literacy. AND THE SPREAD OF IDEAS!
- 12Age of Discovery1450-1650
- 13Motives for ExplorationThe 3 G's-"God, Glory, or Gold" Motives for Exploration: The 3 G's-"God, Glory, or Gold"
- 14Prince Henry the NavigatorOf Portugal made yearly trips to West Africa, sends gold back to Portugal; he paid for other voyages of exploration.
- 15Christopher ColumbusSails west to find a new sea route to Asia. Columbus believes he is the West Indies Discovers the New World. Effects of his discovery- native population wiped out by European diseases like smallpox causes the importation of slaves from Africa.
- 16Ferdinand Magellan1st explorer to "circumnavigate" (sail around) the world.
- 17Columbian ExchangeExchange of plants & diseases between the Americas and Europe result of European exploration of the New World.
- 18The Middle Passage(Part of the triangular slave trade) its the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas made by slave ships. Many Africans died during the voyage.
