History Flashcards
Buba
Sign of bubonic plague, boil in armpit, groin, neck
Flagellents
Pray and whip self to atone for sins
Joan of Arc
Girl in France during hundred year war, voices told her to help France win.
Babylonia Captivity
When French pope dies, people surround Vatican until cardinals elect Italian pope
The Great Schism
Two popes, in French and Italy
Council of Constance
Council to decide the true pope
Fur Collared Crime
White collar crime
Johann Gutenberg
Invented movable type
Vernacular Literature
Literature written in native language (instead of Latin). Secular, beginning of modern literature
Geoffrey Chaucer
Wrote Canterbury Tales, about a group of pilgrims
Dante Aligheri
Wrote Divine Comedy, his vision of hell, purgatory, and heaven
Baldesare Castiqione
Wrote the Courtier, teaches skills to into upper class
Machiavelli
Wrote the Prince, teaches how to get and keep power
Petrarch
Father of Renaissance, believed in rebirth after middle ages, classicism
Secular
Concerned with material world over spiritual
Michelangelo
Renaissance painter, sculpter, and architect
Phillip the Second
Defender of Catholic, pope offers him money to send 30,000 men to invade England (doesn’t work)
Magellan
His boat circumnavigated the Earth
Indulgences
Give the church money to forgive sins (special relationship with god)
Pre-destination
At the beginning of time, god decided who was saved and who was damned
Council of Trent
Council to reform Catholic church, end indulgences and pluralism
Ignatius Loyola
Founded society of Jesus, catholic missionaries
Copernicus
Discovered Earth, planets revolve around sun, stars stay still, Earth rotates, Earth is tiny in universe
Isaac Newton
Credited with laws of gravity
Avovet Voltaire
Principle leader of enlightenment, question authority, deism
Caravel
Boat with sail of swivel, would sail regardless of wind
Ferdenan
Circumnavigated world, proved it was round