Finals Study Wrong Flashcards
Most powerful mayor who wanted to unite all the Frankish nobles under his rule
Charles Martel
Capital of Charlemagnes empire
Aachen
Ottos territory most of Germany and northern Italy
Holy Roman Empire
Larger and newer type of church
Cathedral.
Part of western France across the English Channel from England; ruled by William
Normandy
Took away kings power (no longer hold taxes unless Great Council agreed. Men accused of crimes had right to be judges fairly)
Magna Carta
Raised taxes, punished enemies without trials, signed Magna Carta
King john
Headed German convent one of few woman who write music for the church
Hildegard of bingen
Founded first orders of friars
Francis of Assisi
Christians struggle to take back the Iberian peninsula
Reconquista
Hatred of Jews
Anti-semitism
Disease caused by bacteria in mosquitoes
Black Death
Rebirth of interest in art and learning
Renaissance
More interested is this world than religion and getting to heaven
Secular
Small fit state, north end of Adriatic Sea, wealthiest, great sailors and ship builders, on many small islands, canals, wealth from building ships
Venice
Spanish author, numerous plays and fictions, influential piece made him popular
Cervantes
Softened edges by using light and shadows instead of stiff outlines to separate objects, created more drama and emotion
Chiaroscuro
Painting in wet plaster with water color paint
Fresco
Point at which something grows smaller or disappears alltogether
Vanishing point
Master of oil painting, learned how to mix and blend his oil paints to make brilliant colors
Jan Van Eyck
Commander of all the military forcesq
Shogun
Scholar and clergyman, wrote that human being can use their reason to become better Christians and thereby improve the church
Erasmus
Merchant from Venice, the great emperor of China sent him on business trips all over China, wrote book about his travels, his stories helped increase interest in China and made many people want to buy China’s goods
Marco Polo
Florence’s richest family, had branch banks as far away as London
Medici family
Art of negotiating or making deals with other countries
Diplomacy
Poet and scholar who loved in the 1300s, studied roman writers like Cicero and wrote biographys of famous Romans, encouraged Europeans to search for latin manuscripts in monasteries all over Europe, in time his efforts laid off and new libraries were built to keep the documents
Petrarch
One of the best renaissance scientist who was also a great writer, dissected corpses to learn anatomy and studied fossils to undertsnad world history, inventor engineer, drew sketches of glider, helicopter, parachute, military tank, scuba diving suit
Leonardo da Vinci
Poet of Florence, wrote worlds greatest poems in the vernacular, tells tale of main character journey from he’ll to heaven
Dante Alighieri
Developed a printing press that used movable metal type
Gutenberg
Traded salt and beans with inland people to get made for jewelry and obsidian to make sharp knifes
Olmec
Place of prickly cactus
Tenochititlan
Built civilation in the steamy rainforest of the yuca tan peninsula, traded through mesoamerica, used their central location to reach into what is now southern Mexico and Central America, lasted 200 years, came to mysterious end
Inca
Books that recorded religion and history
Codices
A retreat for Incan kings
Manchu picchu
Forced thousand of tabascans to surrounded, tabascans gave him malintzin who spoke Mayan, he was afraid he was the god returning home, one took the other hostage when they tried to ambush him, one was killed trying to stop the fighting
Cortes and Montezuma
Mayan woman that spoke both Mayan Nahuatl
Malintzin
Raided Incan store houses and fired guns at villagers, spanish messages invited Atahualpa to a meeting, seized Atahualpa and dragged him off the battle feild, atahuluapa filled his jail with gold to be released, charged the emperors with many crimes and killed him
Pizarro and Incas
Corn, become most important food of the Americas
Maize
Corn, beans, and squash
Three sisters
Invented by the chinese, helped find magnetic north
Compass
Local rulers imposed new taxes on merchants, made Asian goods expensive
Silk Road
Set up research center in southern Portugal, invited sailors, cartographers, and ship builders to come and help him explore the world
Henry the navigator
Rounded tip of Africa, raced across the Indian Ocean and landed on India’s coast
Vasco do Gama
Sailed past Newfoundland and entered the St. Lawrence River in Canada
Cartier and Canada
Idea that country gains power by compiling a large supply of gold and silver
Mercantilism
Buy from other countries
Import
System in which people, rather than governments, own property and make goods
Capitalism
As european traded with the world,a global exchange of people, goods, technology, ideas, and disease
Colombian exchange
Lutheranism was the first Protestant denomination
Protestant
First Protestaant denomination,m3 main ideas, faith in Jesus brings good works, the Bible is the final source for truth about God, the church was made was made up of all believers
Lutheranism
Went to Paris to study theology, began to read about Luther at his college, arrested spent months in jail, powerful preaching convinced many people to follow him, published book, became basis of many churches, gods will is absolute and decided everything in advanced
John Calvin
Married six queens, divorced two, beheade two more. Imprisoned bishops and nobles for disagreeing with him, wanted pope to annul his marriage, archbishop annulled it, excommunicated by pope, seized church’s land, gave portions to his nobles
Henry VIII
Special school for training priests
Seminary
French Protestants, nobles wanted king to be weak so they could practice religion freely
Huguenots
Leader of hugge it’s head of Bourbon family, became king of France, can’t capture Paris,issued edict, Catholic was official religion, also gave Huguenots the right to worship freely
Henry of Navarre
Regretted group of assassinations, followed by a wave if Catholic mob violence, both directed against Huguenots
St. Bartholomews day massacre
Jesuits
Converted thousands to Christianity, lost favor in Japanhen shogun banned Christianity, and expelled all missionaries
First Jesuit missionary in Japab
Francis Xavier
Area of dry land, exposed between Asia and Alaska
Beringia
