AP world history "The Earth and it's Peoples" textbook 14 terms and people
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| 298534381 | Avicenna | Ibn Sina, the Iranian philospher who translated Greek documents and ideas into latin. | 0 | |
| 298534382 | Cosimo de' Medici | Florentine banker who spent a ridiculous amount of money on paintings, sculpture, and public buildings. | 1 | |
| 298534383 | Desiderius Eurasmus | Dutch scholar, produced a critical edition of the New Testament in Greek. He corrected many errors in translation that those before him had made | 2 | |
| 298534384 | Edward III | son of King Edward II of England and Isabella. He was denied his right to the French throne so he fought for it. For 100 years. Nice bro. | 3 | |
| 298534385 | Francesco Petrarch | humanist poet who proclaimed the revival of the classical Greco-Roman tradition they felt had for centuries lain buried under the rubble of the middle ages. | 4 | |
| 298534386 | Fugger Family | ten times the money in the Medici bank. Started by Jacob "the Rich." | 5 | |
| 298534387 | Geoffrey Chaucer | wrote Canterbury Tales in the last years of his life. | 6 | |
| 298534388 | Jan van Eyck | Flemish painter who mixed his pigments with linseed oil. This gave a better look to any painting and it dried slower than other paints. | 7 | |
| 298534389 | Johann Gutenberg | created a printing press with movable type | 8 | |
| 298534390 | Leonardo da Vinci | Mona Lisa and the Last supper. also has drawings and ideas for airplanes, submarines, and tanks. | 9 | |
| 298534391 | Marco Polo | merchant from venice who traveled all the way to central asia in 1271. He served as an ambassador to Khubilai Khan | 10 | |
| 298534392 | Medici Family | family of Florence who operated a bank in Italy, Flanders, and London. Controlled the government of Florence and commissioned art work | 11 | |
| 298534393 | Michelangelo | designed the dome for a New St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Also did many biblical paintings and statues. | 12 | |
| 298534394 | Thomas Aquinas | was a very sexist theologian who argued that although both men and women were created in the God's images, men were were more like God. Dickwad. | 13 | |
| 298534395 | Avignon Papacy | the period when the pope was from France, not Rome (which caused a huge argument) | 14 | |
| 298534396 | Canterbury Tales | lengthy poem written in the last years of Geoffrey Chaucer. humorous and earthy tales told by fictional pilgrims going to see the shrine of Thomas a Becket | 15 | |
| 298534397 | Flying buttresses | part of gothic style architecture which helped to create taller churchers and buildings. | 16 | |
| 298534398 | Gothic Cathedrals | large churches originating in 12th century France; pointed arches, tall vaults and spires, flying buttresses, and large stained glass windows. | 17 | |
| 298534399 | guilds | an association of men, such as merchants, who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interests. | 18 | |
| 298534400 | hanseatic league | an economic and defensive alliance of the free towns i northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the 14th century. | 19 | |
| 298534401 | humanists | european scholars, writers, and teachers associated with the study of humanities, influential from 1500+ | 20 | |
| 298534402 | magna carta | affirmation of the monarchs right to establish law, confirmed the independence of the church and London, and guaranteed the nobles hereditary rights. | 21 | |
| 298534403 | printing press | a mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a wood-block or type to paper using ink. movable type appeared in Europe around 1450 | 22 | |
| 298534404 | three-field system | a rotational system where two fields grow food crops and one lies fallow (nothing is planted in it) | 23 | |
| 298534405 | universities | degree granting institutions of higher learning. | 24 | |
| 298534406 | water wheel | a mechanism that harnesses the energy in flowing water to grind grain to powder. | 25 | |
| 298534407 | Black death | outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid 14th cent. Killed a ridic amount of people. Dead bodies were erywhere. | 26 | |
| 298534408 | fourth crusade | Venetian-inspired assault against Constantinople, allowed Venice to seize Crete and expand its trading colonies around the black sea. | 27 | |
| 298534409 | great western schism | a division in the Latin christian church between 1378 and 1415 when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (Basically, er'y body wanted to be pope and it was jank) | 28 | |
| 298534410 | hundred years' war | series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and french royal families and french noble families | 29 | |
| 298534411 | reconquest of iberia | military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. After the last Muslim leader was defeated, Spain and Portugal united. | 30 | |
| 298534412 | renaissance | a period of intense artistic and intellectual activity said to be a rebirth of Greco-Roman culture. 1500's-1700's | 31 | |
| 298534413 | scholasticism | a philosophical and theological system associated with Thomas Aquinas, created to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic Church theology in the 13th century. | 32 |
