Chapter 15 Vocab Flashcards

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