7401406601 | Renissance | Rebirth; refers to a period that followed the middle ages. (1300-1570) | 0 | |
7401406602 | guilds | An 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 | |
7401406603 | Hanseatic League | established in 1358, it controlled trade throughout much of northern Europe. | 2 | |
7401406604 | Putting out system | employers provide employees with raw materials and the orders for turning them into finished products. | 3 | |
7401406605 | Ghetto | The 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 | |
7401406606 | St. Thomas Aquinas | one of the greatest theologians that lived in the 1200's. helped develop scholastic theology, wrote 5 proofs of existence | 5 | |
7401406607 | Black Death | A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351 | 6 | |
7401473929 | Medieval | Another name for the Middle Ages. | 7 | |
7401479212 | Giovanni Boccaccio | man who tells the stories of 10 people during the Plague in Italy called the Decameron | 8 | |
7401481151 | Ciompi | the lowest class of workers in Florence that revolted and ultimately were defeated | 9 | |
7401483268 | Humanism | Cultural movement initiated in western Europe in the 14th century deriving from the rediscovery and study of greek and roman literary texts. | 10 | |
7401489291 | Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | A humanist from Florence that wrote the important of the human mind. | 11 | |
7401489292 | Masaccio | He used light and dark imagery to illustrate different feelings and emotions | 12 | |
7401493503 | Jan van Eyck | Flemish painter who focused on landscapes and everyday life | 13 | |
7401497073 | Medici | Banking family, controlled Republic of Florence | 14 | |
7435419478 | Michelangelo | the renaissance artist (1475-1564), painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel | 15 | |
7435437907 | Leonardo da Vinci | the renaissance artist (1452-1519), Painted the Mona Lisa | 16 | |
7435452150 | Niccolò Machiavelli | (1469-1527) Author of The Prince. | 17 | |
7435480752 | Caravel | a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries. | 18 | |
7435484957 | Astrolabe | An instrument for determining the positions and movements of heavenly bodies | 19 | |
7435489433 | Ptolemy | Egyptian scientist who believed in geocentric theory | 20 | |
7435496023 | Johannes Gutenberg | (1390-1486) German inventor who invented the movable type printing press | 21 | |
7435505409 | Double-entry bookkeeping | recorded as two separate entries to maintain balance shown in the accounting equation | 22 | |
7435514529 | Prince Henry the Navigator | Sponsor of voyages along West African coasts 1418. (1394-1460) | 23 | |
7435518449 | Bartolomeu Dias | a Portuguese explorer, first to sail around the southern tip of Africa. (1450-1500) | 24 | |
7435521018 | Christopher Columbus | He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India. (1451-1506) | 25 | |
7435526100 | Amerigo Vespucci | Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America (1454-1512) | 26 | |
7435529680 | Martin Waldseemüller | German 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 | |
7435550328 | Gerardus Mercator | published map with north and south america as 2 separate continents. (1512-1594) | 28 | |
7435550424 | Vasco Núñez de Balboa | Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513 (1479-1519) | 29 | |
7435574433 | Ferdinand Megellan | -Reached Asia by circumnavigating the globe (1480-1521) | 30 |
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