Concepts to Know Flashcards
What are the world view elements?
Geography, time, society, values, beliefs, economy, and knowledge.
What was the importance of the Silk Road during renaissance times?
Used for trade and spread ideas, knowledge and tech from east.
How did country life change because of disease?
Peasants moved to city, nobles lost their workers, feudal system change.
How did city life change because of disease?
Towns became more crowded, merchants and guilds became more important, woman gained power, more opportunities for peasants.
What resulted from the crusades?
Contact with Muslim civilization and trade.
Which ideas from classical times helped to form the humanist worldview?
Greek and Roman ideas, as well as the Islamic civilization with preserved these ideas and further developed them.
What is the Feudal hierarchy in order?
The Crown
Barons, Abbots, and Bishops
Knights. Commoners (freeholders, peasants, and serfs)
How did artists’ work change during the later part of the Renaissance?
They became more detailed and closer reflected the individual, present world, beauty, and human excellence. The paintings used the following things to create naturalism and beauty in their works; the natural world, light and shadow, texture and pattern, realistic details, and elegance. Artists got payed more for their work.
Why was the development of the printing press so important?
It was important because it made books easier to make, so they could be sold cheaper, and more people could afford to buy these books. This also helped to spread new ideas not just in the highest classes. People began to become more literate and books were printed in the vernacular. The selling of books also funded the travels of thinkers to go and teach others.
Where was the Aztec civilization and why did they choose that location?
The Aztecs settled on a small island in the middle of lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico. The wandering group of nomads chose this spot because they were told by their gods to make a settlement where a eagle perched on a cactus eating a snake was.
How did the Muslim civilization contribute to Spanish society?
Architecture, design, and scientific knowledge.
What factors contributed to Cortes defeating the Aztecs?
Weapons, disease, horses, Malinche/Dona Marina, and strategy.
Why did Montezuma welcome cortes to his city? What was the result of his behaviour?
Moctezuma thought that Cortes was a god. Cortes then was able to defeat the Aztecs.
Why were the calendar stones and Aztec temples destroyed by the conquistadors?
They did this to completely destroy the Aztec culture. The Spanish thought that the practice of human sacrifice was disgusting.
What happened to the Aztec people after they were conquered?
The Aztecs became slaves to the Spanish and were forced into Christianity. Even though slave owners were supposed to treat the Aztecs well, they abused them anyways.
