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36 Cards in this Set
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Magna Carta |
Created in 1215 against King John Lackland to ensure the reforms the public desired. It limited royal powers, defined feudal obligations between the King and the barons, and guaranteed a number of rights. |
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Thomas Aquinas |
(1224-1274) Best known for the Summa Theologica and is held to be the model teacher for those studying for priesthood. He is considered to be the Church's greatest theologian and philosopher. |
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Divine Comedy |
An epic poem by Dante (1265-1321) that describes his travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven |
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The Canterbury Tales |
A collection of over 20 stories written by Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. Painted an ironic portrait of English society at the time, in particular, the Church. |
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Osman I |
The leader of the Ottoman Turks and the found of the dynasty that established and ruled the Ottoman Empire |
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Devshirme |
the blood or boy tax/ the annual practice by which the Ottoman Empire sent military to abduct boys and sons of their Christian subjects. They were then converted to Islam and were trained for the military or civil service. |
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Great Plague |
(1347-1351) Broke out in Europe that caused around a third of the population to die. Many believed it to be God's judgement for the Jews within the cities and many fled, but this only spread the disease. |
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The Hundred Years War |
(1337-1453) Edward III sends troops to invade France to try and conquer the throne. The English do well during this war, but it lasted so long because Edward continued to run out of money to fund it. |
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Battle of Agincourt |
(1415) Henry V won against Charles VI |
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The Great Schism |
(1378-1417) A split within the church when several men claimed to be the pope and authority was uncertain. |
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Council of Constance |
(1414-1418) The council that ended the great schism by deposing or accepting the resignation of the remaining papal claimants and electing Pope Martin V |
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John Wycliff |
An english scholastic philosopher, reformer, and university teacher at Oxford. He was an influential dissident in the Church during the 14th century. |
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Jon Huns |
(1369-1415) Condemned by the Council of Constance for heresy and burned at the stake |
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Daimyo |
"Great Lords" |
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Ashikaga Takuaji |
(1305-1358) Blackmailed the emperor into making him Shogun after bringing him to power and destroying all the other Shoguns. |
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Onin War |
(1467- 1477) Fought in Kyoto and it ruined the city. The imperial court fled and anarchy caused central rule to collapse. |
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Zhu Yuangzhang/ Hongwu |
(1328- 1398) Led the Red Turbans and used them to get to power. He claimed the mandate of heaven for himself and became emperor. He acted as a dictator and killed off most of his scholars because of paranoia. |
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Zhu Di |
(1360- 1424) Military governor of North China that became upset when Hongwu chose his nephew instead of him. He overthrew his nephew, the nephew vanished, and Zhu becomes Yongle Emperor. He spends alot of money on explorations to hunt his nephew down and kill him, but is unsuccessful. |
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Zheng De |
(1371- 1433) Commander and General for the Yongle Emperor and had helped him get to power. |
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Lorenzo Medici |
(1469-1492) came from a wealthy family and started off the practice of patronage and sponsorship (the arts) His family gained power within Florence by loaning money. |
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Humanism |
an outlook or system of thought attached to the importance of the human race rather than divine or supernatural matters |
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Petrarch |
(1304- 1374) an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, often called the Father of Humanism |
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The Prince |
(1513) Written by Machiavellie, caliemd the state was a natural entity without divine origin |
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Gutenberg Bible |
(c.1456) the first mass printed edition on the movable type press by Johannes Gutenberg |
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Decameron |
Vernacular literature, written by Giovanni Boccaccio and it gives a window into Italian lives during this time period. |
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Don Quixote |
A spanish novel by Cervantes, considered to be the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age |
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Reconquista |
(c.1212- 1492) Muslim Moors vs. Christians |
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Henry the Navigator |
(1394- 1460) Regarded as the main initiator of what would be known as the Age of Discoveries |
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Da Gama |
India, (1498-99) His discovery of the water-traveled connection to India opend up the way for trade and the age of global imperialism |
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Nzinga Nkuwu/ Afonso I |
faced problems with the Portugues community that settled in the Kongo regarding their handling of the Atlantic trade, particularly the slave trade. |
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Conquistadores |
the spanish conquerors of mexico and peru in the 16th century |
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Tenochtitlan |
(c.1350-1519) An Aztec city state that was captured by the Spanish in 1521. |
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Moctezuma |
(c.1398-1469) the fifth Aztec emperor and king of Tenochtitlan |
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Battle of Cajamarca |
(1532) The ambush and capture of the Incan ruler and his city by the Spanish. (Atahualpa vs. Pizarro) |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
Portuguese explorer who organized the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519- 1522 --first circumnavigation of the Earth--
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The Columbian Exchange |
took place in the 15th and 16th centuries, revolving around the spread of food, cultures, ideas, technology, and disease.
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