Renaissance:  Culture/Exploration

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QUIA REVIEW GAMES          CLASS ZONE

Be able to identify the following terms:

Renaissance                                                                      Anglican Church                                              Cartier                                   

Reformation                                                                      John Calvin                                                      LaSalle

Humanist                                                                          Predestination                                                  Mercantilism

Machiavelli                                                                       Counter-Reformation                                        Theocracy

Machiavellian                                                                    Leo X                                                              Prince Henry the Navigator

Gutenberg                                                                         Jamestown (1607)                                            Florence

Erasmus                                                                            Plymouth (1620)                                               Magellan

Thomas More                                                                   Columbus (1492)                                             Michelangelo

Shakespeare                                                                     Cortes                                                              

Leonardo Da Vinci                                                            Pizzaro                                                             Line of Demarcation

Tetzel                                                                                DeSoto                                                            conquistadores

Indulgences                                                                       Drake                                                              circumnavigation

Martin Luther                                                                    Vespucci                                                          Joint-Stock Company

Diet of Worms                                                                  da Gama                                                            Zheng He

Protestants                                                                        Dias                                                                   James Cook

Champlain                                                                         Council of Trent                                                Jesuits

Be able to answer the following questions completely:

What does the title of More's book mean today?

What was the result of humanism?

Be able to explain how the reformation got started.

Be able to explain the circumstances around Henry VIII's split from the Catholic church.

What were the primary reasons for Spanish, French, Portuguese and English colonization?

What is the "Columbian Exchange?"  Describe how this exchange impacted the Americas and the world.

What did the Spanish do to the Indian population in America?

Explain what the Spanish Armada was, who sent it and why.  What year did it sail and what happened to it?  What is the significance of its defeat to us today?

What is Quesinberry's First Law of History???

What technological advances allowed the Europeans to explore at this time in history?

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