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What means "rebirth" in French and was considered by most scholars to be a time of transition from medieval to modern times
Renaissance
He was considered by some to be Erasmus's theological successor and posted 95 theses against indulgences in 1517
Martin Luther
True or false:Spain never had more religious toleration than during the rule of Ferdinand and Isabella
False
The first modern sailors recorded to circumnavigate the globe were?
Spanish
True or false: Lorenzo the Magnificent ruled Florence in the late fifteenth century.
True
The War of the Roses lasted from
1455 to 1485
Cosmo de' __________ was the wealthiest Florentine and a natural statesman.
Medici
The ability to act decisively and heroically
Virtu
True or false:Native Americans readily converted to Christianity
False
Julius came to be known as the "__________ pope," because he brought the Renaissance papacy to a peak of military prowess and diplomatic intrigue.
Warrior
True or false:Thomas More was excecuted for writing Utopia
False
Niccolò __________ wrote The Prince in 1513
Machiavelli
__________ were military brokers through which mercenary armies could be obtained
Condottieri
The __________ is a large landed estate owned by persons originally born in Spain or persons of Spanish descent born in America
Haciendas
True or false:The influx of spices and precious metals inflated the price of goods while wages and rent remained well behind the new prices
True
Who wrote Divine Comedy and Vita Nuova?
Dante Alighieri
The labor servitude whereby adult male Indians would devote a number of days of labor to Spanish enterprises is known as
Repartimiento
The use of shading to enhance naturalness in painting and drawing
Chiaroscuro
Education designed to promote humanist leader of political and cultural life
Civic humanism
Military brokers who furnished mercenary forces to the Italian states during the Renaissance
Condottieri
Meaning "conquerors." The Spanish conquerors of the New World
Conquistadores
The grant by the Spanish to a colonist of the labor of a specific number of Indians for a set period oftime
Encomienda
The royal tax on salt in France
Gabelle
The agreement in 1356 to establish a seven-member electoral college of German princes to choose the Holy Roman Emperor
Golden Bull
The study of the Latin and Greek classics and of the Church Fathers both for their own sake and to promote a rebirth of ancient norms and values
Humanism
The Roman name for a liberal arts education
Humanitas
A style of art in the mid to late sixteenth century that permitted artists to express their own "manner" or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance
Mannerism
Philosophy of Plato that posits preexistent Ideal Forms of which all earthly things are imperfect models
Platonism
During the Renaissance, a liberal arts program of study that embraced grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, philosophy, and politics
Studiahumanitatis
(1492-1503) Corrupt Spanish pope. He was aided militarily and politically by his son Cesare Borgia, who was the hero of The Prince.
Alexander VI
Medieval Italian poet wrote Inferno and Divine Comedy. Dealt the influence of the afterlife.
Dante Alighieri
Wrote the Decameron which tells about ambitious merchants, portrays a sensual, and worldly society.
Boccaccio
One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance, developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
Botticelli
Italian architect, celebrated for work during Florentine Renaissance. He was anti-Gothic. Foundling Hospital in Florence.
Brunelleschi
Worked in Rome. Painted the Sistine Chapel for Pope Julius II. Sculpted the statue of David.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Wrote The Courtier which was about education and manners and had a great influence. It said that an upper class, educated man should know many academic subjects and should be trained in music, dance, and art.
Castiglione
Artist who made sculptures and religious paintings like the Last Supper.
Leonardo Da Vinci
r(1469-1492) The Medici’s were a great banking family in Florence in the 15th century. Ruled government of Florence from behind the scene.
Lorenzo de Medici
Spanish writer. Wrote Don Quixote.
Miguel De Cervantes
Wrote On the Dignity of Man which stated that man was made in the image of God before the fall and as Christ after the Resurrection. Man is placed in-between beasts and the angels. He also believed that there is no limits to what man can accomplish.
Pico Della Mirandola
Sculptor. Probably exerted greatest influence of any Florentine artist before Michelangelo. His statues expressed an appreciation of the incredible variety of human nature.
Donatello
Dutch Humanist and friend of Sir Thomas More. Perhaps the most intellectual man in Europe and widely respected. Believed the problems in the Catholic Church could be fixed; did not suport the idea of a Reformation. Wrote Praise of Folly.
Erasmus
Headed leading banking, and trading house in l6th century Europe.
Jacob Fugger
Florentine Painter who led the way in the use of realism.
Giotto
German Painter noted for his portraits and religious paintings.
Hans Holbein the Younger
Studied the Latin classics to learn what they reveal about human nature. Emphasized human beings, their achievements, interests, and capabilities.
Humanism
Individualism stressed personality, uniqueness, genius, and the fullest development of capabilities and talents.
Individualism
r(1503-1513) Pope - very militaristic. Tore down the old Saint Peter’s Basilica and began work on the present structure in 1506. Sponsored Michaelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel.
Julius II
Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. "End justifies the means."
Niccolo Machiavelli
The finest representative of early modern skepticism. Created a new genre, the essay.
Montaigne
Englishman, lawyer, politician, Chancellor for Henry VIII. Wrote Utopia which presented a revolutionary view of society, in which the problems of society were caused by greed. Executed by Henry VIII for not compromising his religious beliefs in 1535.
Sir Thomas More
Monarchies that took measures to limit the power of the Roman Catholic Church within their countries. The people loved the idea of being the monarch and removed all competition. They were very Machiavellian. Included Henry VII and Henry VIII of England.
"New Monarchs"
Conspiracy to overthrow the Medici’s. Failed, and Medici retribution was swift and very violent.
Pazzi Conspiracy
Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization.
Petrarch
French satirical author.Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Rabelais
A man that is multitalented and is well educated. The example being Michaelangelo.
"Renaissance Man"
The awakening from the dark ages and the focusing on the Roman’s.
Revival of antiquity
(1452-1498) Dominican friar who attacked paganism and moral vice of Medici and Alexander VI. Burned at the stake in Florence.
Friar Girolamo Savonarola
The belief in material things instead of religious things. This was a shift away from Medieval thinking.
Secularism
On Pleasure, and On the False Donation of Constantine, which challenged the authority of the papacy. Father of modern historical criticism.
Lorenzo Valla
Everyday language of a specific nation.
Vernacular
The striving for excellence and being a virtuous person. Humanistic aspect of Renaissance.
Virtu
1304
birth of Petrach
1603
death of Elizabeth I; end of Tudor dynasty
Who said "The end justifies the means"
Machiavelli
Who said "men can do all things if they will"
Alberti
Who said "there is no limits to what humans can achieve"
Pico della Mirandola
What came before the Renaissance?
Middle Ages; scholasticism; Thomas Aquinas
Causes of the Renaissance
Individualism - emphasis on individual and genius
Humanism - sought to understand human nature through studying the classics
Secularism - concern with material world rather than religious Italians focused on greed and money
Who wrote On Pleasure; defended materialism
De Valla
Who wrote Decameron; defended materialism
Boccacio
Who wrote Book of the Courtier
Castiglione
Father of the Renaissance
Petrarch
Last Supper
Da Vinci
School at Athens
Raphael
David
Michalangelo
Dome of the cathedral at Florence
Bruneschelli
What were the effects of the Renaissance?
Art changes in style (see examples)
Literature changes - more secular
Education - used to develop moral behavior
Politics - Machiavelli; the Medicis - power politics
Women - upper school women's right declined
Issues of the Northern Renaissance
More Christian - social reform based on Christian morals
Wanted to create a better society by mixing education, Christian morality, and classicism
In Praise of Folly
Erasmus
Utopia
More
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelias
Don Quixote
Cervantes
Three artists of the Northern Renaissance
Van Eyck
Rembrandt
Hans Holbein
Wood cutting
Martin Durer
The effects on education of the Northern Renaissance
Emphasis on education
i.printing press
ii. increase in universities
The effects on art and architecture of the Northern Renaissance
i. more religious
ii. influenced by classics
Van Eyck; Bosche
The effects on politics of the Northern Renaissance
New Monarchs - powerful, ruthless, Machiavellian
i. Louis XI - France
ii. Henry VII - England
iii. Ferdinand and Isabella - Spain
Another effect of the Northern Renaissance
Increase in royal authority and sense of national identity
Cueto
Cueto
Rise of the Dutch West India Company
1650
Who said "I have come to win gold not to plow the fields like a peasant"
Cortez
Curiousity of explorers
Henry the Navigator
Improved technology
Gold, God and glory
Empire building
Causes of the Exploration
What were the issues of the Exploration
Spread of Christianity
Who made a school for navigators and map-makers
Henry the Navigator
Who took over the Aztecs?
Cortez
Who took over the Incas?
Pissaro
Who was the first European known to have sailed around the Southern tip of Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias
Who was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India?
Vasco da Gama
Who worked as a cartographer (mapmaker) for England's King Henry VIII, a captain for Spain's King Ferdinand V, explored for England's King Henry VII, and secretly explored for Venice.
Sebastian Cabot
Who sailed from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, landing in the "new world" of the Americas and gaining lasting fame?
Christopher Columbus
Who completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth?
Ferdinand Magellan
What was the effects of exploration?
Native people enslaved or killed
Influx of gold
International competition
Pope Alexander VI set the Line of Demarcation which was a boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas, signed by Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain.
Treaty of Tordesillas
Italian-born navigator explored the coast of New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Gave England a claim in North America.
John Cabot
Claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500. He had intended to follow Da Gama but was blown off course.
Pedro Cabra
(1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire.
Prince Henry the Navigator
(1487-1488) Portuguese, first European to reach the southern tip of Africa in 1488.
Bartholomew Diaz
Sailed from Portugal and landed in India in 1498.
Vasco da Gama
English sea captain, robbed Spanish treasure ships; 'singed the king beard'; involved in the armada. The second person to circumnavigate the globe.
Sir Francis Drake
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isablella of Casille were the monarchs who united Spain in 1469 when they married. Responsible for the success of the reconquista in 1492.
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
Indians were required to work a certain number of days for a land owner, but had their own land to work as well.
Encomienda
Spanish 'conqueror' or soldier in the New World. They were searching for the 3-G's: gold, God, and glory.
Conquistadores
1480?-1521) Portuguese-born navigator. Hired by Spain to sail to the Indies in 1519. (The same year HRE Charles V became empreor.) Magellan was killed in the Philippines (1521). One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan
A water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through northern Canada and along the northern coast of Alaska. Sought by English and French navigators since the 16th century.
Northwest Passage
English courtier, navigator, colonizer, and writer. A favorite of Elizabeth I, he introduced tobacco and the potato to Europe. Convicted of treason by James I, he was released for another expedition to Guiana and executed after its failure.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Italian explorer of the Atlantic coast of North America.
Giovanni de Verrazano
He sailed from Lisbon with a large fleet to capitalize on da Gama’s explorations. Unfortunately he was blown off course, fortunately he landed in Brazil in 1500, thus claiming the land for Portugal.
Pedro Alvares Cabral
The reason for increased exploration
“Gold, God, and glory” .
Other reasons for exploration
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile married and united the country and defeated the Moors and the Jews - the reconquista.
In 1415 Portuguese took what from the Muslims and opened the door to further exploration.
Cuerta
Portugal ended what monopoly in Asian trade.
Venetian and Muslim monopoly
Who crossed the Isthmus of Panama and reached the Pacific Ocean in 1513.
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Who discovered Florida.
Ponce de León
Spanish explorers created a system of in the New World that mirrored Spanish administration in Spain.
Administration
Natives were used in what and on plantations often with ruthless brutality.
Gold and silver
All natives in the New World were declared subjects of Spain and as such what?
Taxable
What allowed the natives to be used as laborers and required to pay tribute to their lord
Encomienda
The New World was divided into four viceroys:
New Spain - Mexico, California
Peru - Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador
New Granada - Venezuela, Colombia, Panama
La Plata - Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
In 1497 and 1498 Venetian John Cabot sponsored by who?
Henry VII of England
Because they were unable to find gold or spices the English used the colonies for other purposes:
Religious prosecution
Political prosecution
Adventure
Trade
The Virginia Company settled where in 1607 and soon started exporting what?
Jamestown, tobacco
What group of people settled Massachusetts in 1620?
Pilgrims
Who sailed for France, sailed along the North Atlantic coast, possibly into New York harbor in 1524?
Verrazano
Who sailed up the St. Lawrence River to Quebec - claimed the area for France?
Cartier
Who founded Quebec - the first permanent French settlement in the Americas?
Samuel de Champlain
Who explored the Mississippi Valley?
Marquette and Joliet
What are the economic effects of Exploration?
With inflation the cost of production rose and Spain could not compete on the international market.Spain had expelled many farmers, artisans, and Jews, and was unable to produce enough food so prices rose.
King Philip II paid his debts with silver and so all of Europe started to suffer especially the poor
Other effects of the Exploration
European diseases wiped out perhaps as many as 75% of the indigenous population.The European diet was changed forever as potatoes, coffee, corn, tomatoes, and tobacco were introduced.
The horse, was introduced to the Americas.
What group of people settled Massachusetts in 1620?
Pilgrims
Who sailed for France, sailed along the North Atlantic coast, possibly into New York harbor in 1524?
Verrazano
Who sailed up the St. Lawrence River to Quebec - claimed the area for France?
Cartier
Who founded Quebec - the first permanent French settlement in the Americas?
Samuel de Champlain
Who explored the Mississippi Valley?
Marquette and Joliet
What are the economic effects of Exploration?
With inflation the cost of production rose and Spain could not compete on the international market.Spain had expelled many farmers, artisans, and Jews, and was unable to produce enough food so prices rose.
King Philip II paid his debts with silver and so all of Europe started to suffer especially the poor
Other effects of the Exploration
European diseases wiped out perhaps as many as 75% of the indigenous population.The European diet was changed forever as potatoes, coffee, corn, tomatoes, and tobacco were introduced.
The horse, was introduced to the Americas.