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world history final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| naturalism | truth to nature- details in art |
| nationalism | having pride in your country |
| vernacular | everyday language - easy to read |
| patron | someone who supported an artist financially |
| renaissance | cultural rebirth |
| Lorenzo de medici | control of Florence - grandson of cosimo |
| Johannes gutenberg | made the printing press |
| Albrecht durer | German Leonardo - brought ideas west |
| Leonardo da vinci | painter who created Mona lisa and the last supper |
| michelangello | painted sistine chapel, pieta, and david |
| indulgences | special pardons to save loved ones from going to hell |
| protestants | anyone who's not Catholic and supported the protestant reformation |
| liturgy | protestant form of worship |
| Martin luther | German monk- 95 thesis and protestant reformation |
| John calvin | predestination, theocracy, and calvinism |
| columbus | sailed for spain- established connections between old and new world |
| pizarro | explored South America for gold and silver of the Inca empire |
| caravel | light ship with triangular sails |
| mercantilism | govt. protects and regulates trade to create wealth |
| Columbian exchange | interchange between east and west hemispheres |
| balboa | crossed through panama- first to see Pacific ocean |
| cortes | invasion of Mexico with 500 men |
| circumnavigate | travel all around the world |
| conquistadors | Spanish soldiers who led conquests |
| atahaulpha | Inca emperor- invited pizarro to a meeting and got kidnapped |
| capitalism | business are privately owned and exist to make profits |
| northwest passage | a fake sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific by a series of Canadian islands HENRY HUDSON |
| Vasco da gama | portuguese navigator who explored the east African coast and brought precious things to india |
| joint stock company | sold shares of stocks to investors who became partners in the venture |
| dutch east India company | Europe's largest commercial enterprise of the 17th century |
| olaudah equiano | former African slave, wrote a book, vividly describing his time as a slave from rist person point of view |
| triangular trade | atlantic slave trade that connected Europe, Africa, and the americas |
| Juan Ponce de leon | first European to set foot in Florida and claimed it for spain |
| Francisco vasquez de coronado | explored California and parts of the southwest to look for the cities |
| middle passage | the journey that slaves took across the Atlantic from West Africa to the americas |
| Elizabeth I | powerful queen of England that supported the church of England (protestant) |
| James I | relative of queen Elizabeth that took the throne after her death - clashed with parliament - opposite of elizabeth |
| Louis XIV | took the throne at 5 years old and became a monarch for 72 years - sun king- palace of versailles |
| Charles I | James son- dissolves parliament and was forced to sign the petition of right |
| Oliver cromwell | a puritan member of English parliament that fought to remove catholicism from the church of England |
| absolute monarchy | unquestioned limitless power for a king (Louis the 14) |
| constitutional monarchy | powers of a monarch are limited by parliament powers (glorious revolution) (English bill of rights) |
| orthodoxy | established beliefs and practices imposed on people |
| sovereignty | right to control your own affairs |
| divine right | a dictator thought they were appointed by God to rule |
| prince vladmir | the ruler of Kievan rus |
| Peter the great | a tsar that wanted to bring Russia up to par with the rest of europe |
| the rus | people living on the steppes (comes from the root of russia) |
| Ivan IV | king in 1533 that wanted it to be a continuation of the old roman empire |
| Catherine the great | a german princess who married into the Romanov family |
| philosophe | a social critic in the mid 1700's that fought for enlightenment ideas |
| natural rights | the idea that people are born free and equal - life liberty and property (John locke believed in this) |
| laissez-faire | economic policy of business where industries should regulate their activities without govt. interference |
| tyranny | a state of govt. in which rulers have unlimited power and use it unfairly |
| social contract | an agreement between rulers and the ruled to cooperate for mutual benefits to society |
| salon | women met to discuss enlightenment ideas and further their education |
| bourgeoisie | french middle class - third estate |
| enlightened despot | absolute rulers that applied certain enlightenment ideas |
| deism | a religious philosophy that supports the idea of natural religion |
| censor | limit something in the press |
| Montesquieu | fought to separate the govt. into 3 branches |
| John locke | english philosopher that helped lay the foundation of enlightened thought - believed in natural rights - democracy |
| rousseau | French philosophe that fought for social contract and direct democracy |
| voltaire | used satire to poke fun at religious leaders |
| hobbes | English philosopher that believed people were wicked and cruel |
| diderot | wrote and edited the encyclopedia |
| estate | distinct social classes in france |
| despotism | oppressive rule by a leader with absolute power |
| constitutionalism | concept that the govt. powers should be defined and limited |
| common law | laws made by earlier court decisions |
| disenfranchised | lost the ability to influence govt. |
| status quo | existing idea or condition |
| nation state | state made up of 1 nationality that share traits, language, and heritage |
| propaganda | information used by govt. to make people think a certain way |
| nationalism | people are tied by language, culture, history, and religion |
| ideology | basic belief |
| Marie antoinette | deeply hated queen of france - loved jewelry, parties, and big hair |
| Frederick the great | enlightened despot from prussia |
| napoleon | self proclaimed emperor of france |
| robespierre | led the reign of terror - guillotined millions of people |
| louis XVI | absolute monarch- ruled from outside of Paris - married to Marie antoinette |
| joseph II | enlightened despot from Austria |
| Why did the King of England break from the Roman Catholic Church? | He wanted to divorce his first wife Catherine of Aragon |
| What was the goal of the Inquisition? | Turn everyone Catholic (very violent) |
| What did Johannes Gutenburg contribute during the time of the Renaissance? | Printing press |
| Who established a school that taught sailors about navigational tools and shipbuilding? | Prince Henry the Navigator |
| An expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan was the first to accomplish what? | Circumnavigation |
| Which of the following did NOT contribute to the defeat of Tenochtitlán? | The Spanish outnumbering the natives (natives had a lot more people) |
| What two movements helped inspire Enlightenment ideas? | The Renaissance and Protestant Reformation |
| What did Plato call the "worst disorder of a state"? | tyranny |
| Which philosophe, famous for satire, fought for religious tolerance and freedom of speech? | voltaire |
| To which social class did French peasants belong? | third estate |
| What battle brought Napoleon his final defeat? | battle of waterloo |
| What building did commoners overpower and loot, starting the French Revolution? | the bastille |
Created by:
KAYLEA FALK