WHAP chapter 15 Flashcards

107388642	Francesco Petrarch	"The Father of Humanism", Renaissance writer who wrote Letters to Posterity (connect him to future humanists Locke and Hobbes)	0
107388643	Aragon	Along with Castile, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda.	1
107388644	Vasco de Gama	(1469-1525) completed all water expedition to India in 1498-brought back Indian goods-blow to Italian monopoly of trade with Asia	2
107388645	Romance of the West Chamber	Famous Chinese dramatic work written during the Yuan period. Mongols loved drama	3
107388646	Zhenghe	Chinese Muslim admiral who commanded a series of expeditions to the Indian ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea between 1405 and 1433.	4
107388647	Vivaldis	two Genoese brothers who attempted to find a western route to the "Indies"; disappeared in 1291; precursors of thrust into southern Atlantic	5
107388648	Castile	Along with Aragon, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda.	6
107388649	Henry the Navigator	(1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa. (p. 425)	7
107388650	Renaissance	The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history	8