Stearns AP World History Chapter 15 Flashcards
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| 1881753794 | Renaissance | Cultural and political movement on western Europe; began in Italy c. 1400; rested on urban vitality and expanding commerce; featured a literature and art with distinctly more secular priorities than those of the Middle Ages | 0 | |
| 1881753795 | Castile | Along with Aragon, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda | 1 | |
| 1881753796 | Francesco Petrarch | (1304-1374) One of the major literary figure of the Western Renaissance; an Italian author and humanist | 2 | |
| 1881753797 | Vasco de Gama | Portuguese captain who sailed for India in 1497; established early Portuguese dominance in Indian Ocean | 3 | |
| 1881753798 | 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 | 4 | |
| 1881753799 | Beijing | Capital of China | 5 | |
| 1881753800 | Florence | Capital of Tuscany in Italy | 6 | |
| 1881753801 | Genoa | Capital of Liguria in Italy | 7 | |
| 1881753802 | Aragon | Along with Castile, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda | 8 | |
| 1881753803 | Black Death | A disease that engulfed Europe during the Middle Ages; killed about one-third of the population | 9 | |
| 1881753804 | Hundred Years War | War between Britain and France | 10 | |
| 1881753805 | Venice | City in northeast Italy | 11 | |
| 1881753806 | Polynesia | Islands contained in a rough triangle whose points lie in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island | 12 | |
| 1881753807 | Ibn Rushd | Philosopher in Muslim Spain | 13 | |
| 1881753808 | Maori | Polynesians in New Zealand | 14 | |
| 1881753809 | Admiral 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 | 15 | |
| 1881753810 | Giotto | Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; led the way into realism; his treatment of the human body and face replaced the formal stiffness and artificiality that had long characterized the representation of the human body; apprentice to Cimabue | 16 |