Final Exam Flashcards
German league that sought to control and organize trade in much of Northern Europe.
Hanseatic League
Primary centers of education during early Middle Ages.
Cathedrals and Monasteries
Intellectual movement during the Middle Ages
Scholasticism
Students of the middles ages choose schools according to what?
The Teachers
Medieval Science in the Middle Ages was filled with what?
Magic and Superstition
Art and architecture of the Middle Ages was most influenced by what?
The Church
Who stirred the French to nationalism and was burned at the stake?
Joan of Arc
Period where more than one pope claimed supremecy
Great Schism
Who’s purpose was to end the Great Schism?
Council of Constance
goods for goods
barter
charging interest for use of lent money
usury
What killed a large portion of population during the Middle Ages?
Black Plague
Who married to create Spain?
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabelle of Castille
What 2 countries divided the world between themselves with the Line of Demarcation?
Spain and Portugal
Who discovered the Mississippi River?
de Soto
first great French explorer in the New World
Cartier
first permanent English settlement
Jamestown
What was the dominant economic system of the Age of Exploration?
mercantilism
fast vessel of the 15th century
caravel
term that describes a voyage around the earth
circumnavigation
Spanish conquerers
conquistadors
economic system that had the goal of advancing wealth through investment
capitalism
journeyed 4 years to get to China
Marco Polo
explored New York area for the Netherlands
Hudson