MWC Mid-term Review Word Scramble
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Renaissance | Period in history following the middle ages. it was known as a "Re-birth" of art and learning from the classical period of Greece and Rome. |
Reformation | Period in world history following and encouraged by the Renaissance and it's spirit of discovery. |
Machiavelli | Wrote "The Prince", stated that a ruler must do whatever he has to do to stay in power. |
Da Vinci | He made sketches of nature and of models in his studio. He dissected corpses to learn how bones and muscles work. Renaissance man and inventor. Ex. Mona Lisa The Last Supper |
Michelanglo | He was a sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, and poet. Ex. David Pieta |
Raphael | Developed own style. Great artist of the Renaissance. Ex. Madonna The school of Athens |
Origins of the Renaissance | Italian cit-states had money to support the arts |
Movable type | Help print more books. Books were cheaper. Rapid spread of new ideas. |
Utopia | Concept of a perfect society, written by Sir Thomas More. |
Catholic Church corruptions | Popes competed with Italian princes for political power.Critics said it was too concerned with worldly power and riches. The church also fought to expand its own interests. |
Galileo | Assembled an astronomical telescope. He observed that the 4 mooons of Jupiter move slowly around that planet and he also saw sunspots. Supporter of the Copernican theory of a Heliocentric universe. |
Kepler | Used his calculations to support the Copernican theory. |
Line of Demarcation | Gave Spain most of South America except Brazil, which went to Portugal. |
Pizarro | Conquest to the Incas |
Coronado | Explored American southwest |
Balboa | Crossed Panama, reached pacific |
Cortez | Conquests to the Aztecs |
Diaz | Southern most tip of Africa |
Aztec and Inca conquest | The Spanish had horses, guns and European diseases. |
Middle Passage | A terrible voyage that the slaves had to cross the Atlantic Ocean |
Philip II of Spain | Absolute monarch, ruled with complete authority. |
Louis XIV | Inherited the throne in 1643. Ruled as an absolute monarch "I am the state". |
Divine Rights of the Kings | Believed by James I, the right to rule comes directly form god. |
Peter the Great | Waged war against the Ottoman Empire to gain a warm water port. |
Montesquieu | Believed that power should be divided among three branches of government. |
French Philosophy | Opposed religious prejudice and superstition. |
Maria Antoinette | Married to Louis XVI |
Olympe de Gouges | A journalist, demanded equal rights in her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the female citizens. |
Lafayette | French aristocratic "Hero of two worlds" fought alongside George Washington. Led a middle class militia. |
Bastille | Important symbol of change when it fell, July 14, 1789. |
Robespierre | Known as the Incorruptible, would have supported the execution of Louis XIV, led the Cps and the Reign of Terror. |
Nationalism | Strong feeling of pride in one's country.Not in one's ruler. |
Congress of Vienna | Metternich, Goal was to restore traditional political and social order. |
Adam Smith and Laissez-fair | Government should do nothing to interfere in the economy |
Bismark | Sought German unification by taking military actions. |
2nd Reich | The German Empire |
Count Camillo Cavour | Prime minister wanted to end Austrian power in Italy and annex Lombardy and Venetia. |
Victor Emmanuel II | Constitutional monarch of Sardinia, later King of united Italy. |
Red Shirts | Volunteers to help Garibaldi.Won control of Sicily. |
Metternich | The prince of Austria, opposed a unified Italy.Dominant personality at the congress of Vienna. |
"Sick man of Europe" | Collapse due to nationalism of different groups and the ambition of other European powers. |
Ethnic Minorities | Slavic groups included Czechs, Slovaks, poles, Ukrainians, Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, often in the same. |
Alexander II of Russia | Pattern of reform and repression,Sought to abolish serfdom. |
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