Chapter 8 Old Stuff Flashcards

323690354	William Shakespeare	The most famous European writer.	0
323690355	Sir Thomas More	Wrote Utopia,which described an ideal society, in which everyone shared the wealth, and everyone's needs were met.	1
323690356	Erasmus	One of the most well known learned men of the time, counseled kings and popes.	2
324618163	Machiavelli	Published THe Prince, a how-to book for monarchs who wanted to maintain their power.	3
324618164	Martin Luther	Supposedly nailed a list of 95 these on a church door- a list that was distributed quickly and widely by aid of new-fangled printing press.	4
324618165	Jesuits	Practiced self-control and moderation, beliving that prayer and good works led to salvation.	5
324618166	Kepler	Developed laws of planetary motion based on observation and mathematics.	6
324618167	The Enlightenment	The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries focused on the role of mankind in relation to government, ideas which greatly influenced the framers of the U.S. constitution.	7
324618168	Montesquieu	Argued for separtation of powers among branches of government.	8
324618169	Voltaire	Espoused the idea of religious toleration.	9
324618170	Enlightened Monarchs	Such as Joseph II of Austria and Fredrick II of Prussia.	10
324618171	Vasco da Gama	rounded the Cape of Good Hope, explored the east Africaan kingdoms, and then went all the way to India, where he established trade relations.	11
324618172	Amerigo Vespucci	He explored South America on several trips around 1500; realized that the continent was huge and not part of Asia; America was named for him.	12
324618173	Ponce de Leon	In 1513, he explored Florida for Spain in search of the fountain of youth.	13
324618174	Vasco de Balboa	In 1513, he explored much of Central America for Spain; laid sight on the Pacific Ocean.	14
324618175	Ferdinand Magellan	In 1519, he saild around the tip of South America to the Pacific Ocean for Portugla. He made it as far as the Philippines, where he died; his crew continued, however, and became the fist to circumnavigate the globe.	15
324618176	Giovanni da Verrazano	In 1524, he explored the North American coast for France.	16
324618177	Sir Francis Drake	In 1578, he became the first Enlishman to circumnavigate the globe.	17
324618178	John Caabot	In 1567, he explored the coast of North America for Enlgand.	18
324618179	Henry Hudson	In 1609, he sailded for the Dutch looking for a northwest passqage to Asia; ecplored the Hudson River and made claims to the area for the Dutch.	19