History Chpt. 11-12 – Flashcards
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The first European colonies established outside of Europe geographically were in
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the Atlantic Ocean
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The spanish modeled their Caribbean sugar plantations worked by enslaved African laborers on
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Portuguese sugar plantations on the Cape Verde Islands and the Island of Saint Thomas
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By 1600, b/w ........ percent of the indigenous peoples of the Americas had perished from disease
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50 and 90
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When Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492, he carried with him two books that would shape his views on the places he encountered. The factual account was
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Marco Polo's The Travels of Marco Polo
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For Europeans the most important consequence of the Mongol conquests was
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the commercial links it established between Europe and the Far East along the Silk Road
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As Europeans made advances in navigation and maritime technology in the 15th century, they made efficient use of the quadrant, which
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calculated latitude using the North Star
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The Black Death was passed from the Mongol army to the west at
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the battle of Caffa
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During their 16th century wars against Europe, among the Ottomans' staunchest allies were the
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Orthodox Christians
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Beginning in the 1440's, design changes in the Portuguese caravels allowed them to
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sail withe two masts and faster, triangular sails
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While initial changes brought by gunpowder, exploration, and colonialism were dramatic, in the long run, the discovery of the New World did little to change the fundamental institutions of European society
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FALSE
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Renaissance architects favored the Romanesque style. mistakenly believing it to be Roman and not medival in origin
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TRUE
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The art of the period known as the Renaissance is noted for its development of
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vanishing point perspective the use of light and shade portrait paintings the use of classical themes
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The Renaissance intellectual ideal may be summarized in the term
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humanism
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Painting in oil rather than fresco gave the artist more time to work slowly and incorporate more complexities into a painting
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as drying time was longer
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Renaissance Italy invested heavily in art and culture because
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cities and their rulers competed with each other in constructing public monuments and patronizing artists and authors
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Machiavelli admired Cesare Borgia for his
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ruthlessness and shrewdness
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Historians today generally use the term Renaissance to refer to
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a period in intellectual and cultural history, marked by a new interest in the study of classical learning
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Erasmus wrote works of
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humorous satires and dialogues, Christian moral treatises, letters to friends and contemporaries, a Greek New Testament
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......thought the goal of a Christian writer was to inspire people to do good rather than concentrate on abstract speculation
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Petrarch
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The author of Utopia was
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Sir Thomas More
