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SS flashcards for 2/8/2007

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Vespucci 1454 - 1512 Italian navigator who explored the coast of (what it is now) Brazil. The Americas are named after him.
San Salvador One of the Bahama Islands; where Christopher Columbus first landed in the Americas on October 12, 1492
Indulgences A pardon for sins
Movable type Letters and numbers made from individual pieces of metal that can be positioned to form rows of words
Patron A wealthy person who pays artists and writers to produce their work
Bartholomeu Dias 1450 - 1500 Portugese navigator who sailed around the tip of Africa and into the Indian Ocean
Italy An ancient center of civilization and prsent day European country; located on the Italian Penninsula
Leonardo DaVinci 1452 - 1519 Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. The Mona Lisa is one of his best known works
Prince Henry 1394 - 1460 Founder of a school of navigation, he ade Portugal a world sea power
Reconquista A plan to make Spain all Catholic; also called reconquest
Constantineople Formerly the ancient city of Byzantium; rebuilt, renamed and made capital of the Byzanetine Empire by Constantine in A.D. 300; now Istanbul, Turkey
Galileo 1562 - 1642 Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist. He improved the telescope and used it to prove to Nicolaus Copernicus's theory that the earth revolves around the sun
Martin Luther 1483 - 1546 German religious reformer whose ideas led to the Protestant reformation
Caravels A type of ship that used either square or lanteen sails to travel long distances swiftly
Sheep An animal covered in woll
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