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Stearns AP World History Chapter 15 Flashcards

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12581800485RenaissanceCultural and political movement on western Europe; began in Italy c. 1400; rested on urban vitality and expanding commerce; featured a literature and art with distinctly more secular priorities than those of the Middle Ages0
12581800486CastileAlong with Aragon, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda1
12581800487Francesco Petrarch(1304-1374) One of the major literary figure of the Western Renaissance; an Italian author and humanist2
12581800488Vasco de GamaPortuguese captain who sailed for India in 1497; established early Portuguese dominance in Indian Ocean3
12581800489Henry the NavigatorPortuguese prince responsible for direction of series of expeditions along the African coast in the 15th century; marked beginning of western European expansion4
12581800490BeijingCapital of China5
12581800491FlorenceCapital of Tuscany in Italy6
12581800492GenoaCapital of Liguria in Italy7
12581800493AragonAlong with Castile, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda8
12581800494Black DeathA disease that engulfed Europe during the Middle Ages; killed about one-third of the population9
12581800495Hundred Years WarWar between Britain and France10
12581800496VeniceCity in northeast Italy11
12581800497PolynesiaIslands contained in a rough triangle whose points lie in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island12
12581800498Ibn RushdPhilosopher in Muslim Spain13
12581800499MaoriPolynesians in New Zealand14
12581800500Admiral ZhengheChinese Muslim admiral who commanded series of Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and red Sea trade expeditions under third Ming emperor, Yunglo, between 1405 and 143315
12581800501GiottoFlorentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; led the way into realism; his treatment of the human body and face replaced the formal stiffness and artificiality that had long characterized the representation of the human body; apprentice to Cimabue16

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