Test 4 (Chapter 12-13) Flashcards
Giotto
The Last Judgment
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
“Renaissance man”
Raphael
Sistine Madonna
The School of Athens
Michelangelo
greatest artist of Renaissance Sistine Chapel David Moses greatest Italian lyric poet of the 16th century
Johann Gutenberg
movable-type printing press (1440)
Archbishop of Canterbury
the most influential church office in England
Alfred the Great
the first great king of England
Henry II
common law
trial by jury
John
most hated king in English history
Queen Eleanor
only person in history to hold the title “queen of France” and “queen of England”
Magna Carta
one of the most important documents in the history of the world
habeas corpus
the right of an arrested person to appear before a court to determine if his imprisonment is legal
Sir William Wallace
national hero of Scotland
Hugh Capet
began the Capetian line of French kings
Reconquista
take back Spain from the Moors
El Cid
spanish national hero
Spanish Inquisition
to root up and destroy “heretics” in Spain
Leif Ericson
viking that sailed to America around AD 1000
Marco Polo
China
wrote about his time spent in china
Prince Henry the Navigator
school of navigators
Bartolomeu Dias
Cape of Good Hope
Vasco da Gama
first European to reach the Far East by sea
Christopher Columbus
Pinta, Niña, Santa Maria
October 12, 1492
San Salvador
Governor of Santo Domingo
Amerigo Vespucci
cartographer whom America is named after
Mayas
built the first great civilization in the western hemisphere
Incas
most important Indian civilization in South America
Aztecs
most powerful Native American empire at the beginning of the age of exploration
Ponce de León
made the first Spanish landing on the North American mainland
Vasco de Balboa
crossed the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
3 year voyage around the world
first to circumnavigate globe
Hernando Cortés
conquered Aztecs
Francisco Pizarro
conquered Incas
Francisco Coronado
Grand Canyon
Hernando de Soto
Mississippi River
Juan Cabrillo
coast of California
Pedro Cabral
Brazil
Giovanni de Verrazano
eastern coast of North America
Jacques Cartier
St. Lawrence River
John Cabot
first modern explorer to reach the NA mainland
Newfoundland