Chapter 15 Vocab Flashcards
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255662177 | Vivaldis | Two Genoese brothers who attempted to find a Western route to the Indies; disappeared in 1291; precursors of thrust into southern Atlantic. | 0 | |
255662178 | Petrarch, Francesco | One of the major literary figures of the western Renaissance; an Italian author and humanist. | 1 | |
255662179 | Romance of the West Chamber | Chinese novel written during the Yuan period; indicative of the continued literary vitality of china during Mongol rule. | 2 | |
255662180 | Aragon | along with castile, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda. | 3 | |
255662181 | Zhenghe | Chinese Muslim admiral who commanded series of Indian Ocean. Persian Gulf, and red Sea trade expeditions under third Ming emperor, Yunglo, between 1405 and 1433. | 4 | |
255662182 | Renaissance | Cultural and political movement in western in western Europe; began in Italy . 1400; rested on urban vitality and expanding commerce; features a literature and art with distinctly more secular priorities than those of the Middle Ages. | 5 | |
255662183 | Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince responsible for direction of series of expeditions along the African coast in the 15th century; marked beginning of western European expansion. | 6 | |
255662184 | Castile | Along with Aragon, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda. | 7 | |
255662185 | da Gama, Vasco | Portuguese captain who sailed for India in 1497; established early Portuguese dominance in Indian Ocean. | 8 | |
255662186 | Destruction of Philosophy | Philosopher used this book to show that it was impossible to discover religious truth by human reason. | 9 | |
255662187 | Ottoman Empire | The Turkish empire, established in northern Anatolia by Osman I at the end of the 13th century and expanded by his successors to include all of Asia Minor and much of southeastern Europe. | 10 | |
255662188 | The Hundred Years War | A war between Britain and France that lasted about 100 years. | 11 | |
255662189 | Giotto | Florentine painter who could draw very realistic. | 12 | |
255662190 | Christopher Columbus | He sailed the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. | 13 | |
255662191 | 1400s | Western Expansion | 14 | |
255662192 | Bubonic Plague | A.K.A. the Black Death, was a horrible plague that wiped out a third of the population of all the eastern hemisphere. | 15 | |
255662193 | Asian luxury products | spices: cinnamon & nutmeg, silks, sugar, perfumes, and jewels | 16 | |
255662194 | European cruder goods | wool, tin, copper, honey, and salt. | 17 | |
255662195 | Dante | He was Italian writer the 14th century and wrote the Divine Comedy. | 18 | |
255662196 | Ethnocentrism | The belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group. | 19 |