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7401406601RenissanceRebirth; refers to a period that followed the middle ages. (1300-1570)0
7401406602guildsAn association of people who gather for some common purpose, usually economic. Formed in order to protect and further the members' professional interests and for mutual aid.1
7401406603Hanseatic Leagueestablished in 1358, it controlled trade throughout much of northern Europe.2
7401406604Putting out systememployers provide employees with raw materials and the orders for turning them into finished products.3
7401406605GhettoThe part of a city to which a particular group is confined for its living space. Named from an area across from an iron foundry in the sixteenth century.4
7401406606St. Thomas Aquinasone of the greatest theologians that lived in the 1200's. helped develop scholastic theology, wrote 5 proofs of existence5
7401406607Black DeathA deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 13516
7401473929MedievalAnother name for the Middle Ages.7
7401479212Giovanni Boccaccioman who tells the stories of 10 people during the Plague in Italy called the Decameron8
7401481151Ciompithe lowest class of workers in Florence that revolted and ultimately were defeated9
7401483268HumanismCultural movement initiated in western Europe in the 14th century deriving from the rediscovery and study of greek and roman literary texts.10
7401489291Giovanni Pico della MirandolaA humanist from Florence that wrote the important of the human mind.11
7401489292MasaccioHe used light and dark imagery to illustrate different feelings and emotions12
7401493503Jan van EyckFlemish painter who focused on landscapes and everyday life13
7401497073MediciBanking family, controlled Republic of Florence14
7435419478Michelangelothe renaissance artist (1475-1564), painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel15
7435437907Leonardo da Vincithe renaissance artist (1452-1519), Painted the Mona Lisa16
7435452150Niccolò Machiavelli(1469-1527) Author of The Prince.17
7435480752Caravela small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries.18
7435484957AstrolabeAn instrument for determining the positions and movements of heavenly bodies19
7435489433PtolemyEgyptian scientist who believed in geocentric theory20
7435496023Johannes Gutenberg(1390-1486) German inventor who invented the movable type printing press21
7435505409Double-entry bookkeepingrecorded as two separate entries to maintain balance shown in the accounting equation22
7435514529Prince Henry the NavigatorSponsor of voyages along West African coasts 1418. (1394-1460)23
7435518449Bartolomeu Diasa Portuguese explorer, first to sail around the southern tip of Africa. (1450-1500)24
7435521018Christopher ColumbusHe mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India. (1451-1506)25
7435526100Amerigo VespucciFlorentine navigator who explored the coast of South America (1454-1512)26
7435529680Martin WaldseemüllerGerman cartographer. credited with the first recorded usage of the word America, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. (1470-1520)27
7435550328Gerardus Mercatorpublished map with north and south america as 2 separate continents. (1512-1594)28
7435550424Vasco Núñez de BalboaSpanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513 (1479-1519)29
7435574433Ferdinand Megellan-Reached Asia by circumnavigating the globe (1480-1521)30

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