FINAL Flashcards
The study of classical texts caused humanists to focus on what subject?
Individual and human potential (humanities)
What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?
Art and Learning
What were Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More?
Christian Humanists
For what is the Medici Family famous for?
Being rulers and supporters of the arts
What was the first full sized book Gutenberg printed?
The Gutenberg Bible
What were John Calvin’s major teachings?
Predestination
Why was the caravel an important development in navigation?
The caravel was sturdier and triangular sails allowed the ship to sail
Effectively against the wind
Why did Lord McCartney give a letter from King George III to Qian-long?
Increase trade
What did Hongwu do first to help China become a dominant power?
He overthrew the Mongols and Established the Ming Dynasty
What type of poetry presents images rather than expresses an idea?
Haiku
What was the main economic activity in New France?
Fur trade
Why did Europeans see Africans As a better source of labor than Native Americans?
Africans were strangers to America resulting in hardly any escapes
Which European country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?
Spain
What did the encomienda System provide for new Spain?
Military protection
Which king Became France’s most powerful ruler and boasted, “I am the state”?
Louis XIV
Why did Peter the Great build the city of St. Petersburg?
The city was on a seaport and it would be easier to travel west
By the end of the 1600s,what had England’s system of government become?
A constitutional monarchy
Who Declared himself the head of the English church?
Henry VIII
What did Francis Bacon help develop?
The scientific method