History Exam 1 Flashcards
Mughal- Japan
Which Italian High Renaissance artist painted the School of Athens and the Disputa?
Raphael
Who was the most famous Northern Humanist, who dedicated In Praise of Folly to Thomas More?
Desiderius Erasmus
Which Ottoman sultan was known as ‘the Magnificent’, mostly to Westerners, and within this Empire, more often ‘the Lawgiver’?
Selim I
— —- rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1489.
Bartolomeu Dias
—– —– —– landed in Brazil in 1500.
Pedro Alvares Cabral
The —– expedition circumnavigated the globe 1519-1521?
Magellan
Which country was Portugal’s only American colony, the most dependent on slavery besides the Caribbean Islands held by the Europeans in general, and the last to ban slavery, in 1888?
Brazil
Which King of Kongo would appeal to the King of Portugal to stop the slave trade as a fellow Christian (either his Kongo or European name?)? King—–
Afonso I
Name one of the European countries with a powerful East India Company.
Dutch, British
Name one important Ming or Qing novel from our textbook or lecture.
Journey to the West aka Monkey
Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli could not agree with each other at the —– Colloquy.
Marburg
—– ——, the famous Northern (English) humanist wrote Utopia, was a friend of Erasmus, and of Henry VIII before his king turned around and executed him in 1535 for refusing to acknowledge him as head of the English church.
Thomas More
Popol Vuh
Period= 250, Country= South America, Historical= told the origin story of the Mayans- story that they were made of corn with twins, was burned by conquering Spaniards in 1520s and reconstructed 30 years later
Martin Luther
Period= 1510s, Country= Germany, Historical= he believed in a faith without salvation, wrote the 95 theses, was the Marburg Colloquy
John Calvin
Period= 1530s, Country= Geneva, Historical= no way to tell who was saved, churches should have nothing in them, Institutes of the Christian Religion
