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World 2 SOL

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78 cards·by mgibson@hcps.us
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Songhai
a West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591
Mughal Empire
Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Ottoman Empire
Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia that came to include the Balkans
Aztec Empire
Major state that developed in what is now Mexico in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; dominated by the seminomadic Mexica
Mayan Civilization
American civilization located in Central America that saw its height from 200-900 CE.
Inca
Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Trans-Saharan
route across the sahara desert. Major trade route that traded for gold and salt
Silk Road Trade
The most famous of the trading routes established by pastoral nomads connecting the Chinese
Maritime trade routes
Connects Indian Ocean
Renaissance
rebirth; following the Middle Ages
Humanism (Renaissance)
The humanists believed that the Greek and Latin classics contained both all the lessons one needed to lead a moral and effective life and th
Secularism (Secular Humanism)
The doctrine that morality should be based solely on well-being in the present life
Michelangelo
(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor
Da Vinci
Renaissance inventor and artist who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Medici Family
Ruled Florence during the Renaissance
Machiavelli
Renaissance writer; formerly a politician
Erasmus
Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe
Northern Renaissance
An extension of the Italian Renaissance to the nations Germany
Protestant Reformation
A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protes
Martin Luther
95 Thesis
Indulgences and purgatory
Those who were not baptized but did not deserve hell (dead babies) or simply didn't deserve heaven either went here (Limbo). By giving money
Luther's teachings
Salvation by faith alone in God's gift of forgiveness
Peace of Augsburg (1555)
Document in which Charles V recognized Lutheranism as a legal religion in the Holy Roman Empire. The faith of the prince determined the reli
John Calvin
religious reformer who believed in predestination and a strict sense of morality for society
Huguenots
French Protestants influenced by John Calvin
Edict of Nantes
1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of conscience and worship.
Henry VIII
English king who created the Church of England after the Pope refused to annul his marriage (divorce with Church approval)
Elizabeth I
English Queen and politique who united Protestants and Catholics through compromise and establishes the Anglican Church as the official chur
Catholic Counter-Reformation
how the Catholic Church responded to the challenges of the Protestants
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
religious organization that became the "spiritual arm" for the Counter-Reformation
Inquisition
A Roman Catholic tribunal for investigating and prosecuting charges of heresy - especially the one active in Spain during the 1400s.
Gutenberg Printing Press
used movable type to print
God
Gold
Henry theNavigator
(1394-1460) Prince of Portugal
Vasco de Gama (Portugal)
Discovered a route to India for Portugal
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
Sir Francis Drake
English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596
Magellan
This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world
Jacques Cartier
The first French explorer to explore mainland Canada in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Songhai
a West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591
Mughal Empire
Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Ottoman Empire
Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia that came to include the Balkans
Aztec Empire
Major state that developed in what is now Mexico in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; dominated by the seminomadic Mexica
Mayan Civilization
American civilization located in Central America that saw its height from 200-900 CE.
Inca
Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Trans-Saharan
route across the sahara desert. Major trade route that traded for gold and salt
Silk Road Trade
The most famous of the trading routes established by pastoral nomads connecting the Chinese
Maritime trade routes
Connects Indian Ocean
Renaissance
rebirth; following the Middle Ages
Humanism (Renaissance)
The humanists believed that the Greek and Latin classics contained both all the lessons one needed to lead a moral and effective life and th
Secularism (Secular Humanism)
The doctrine that morality should be based solely on well-being in the present life
Michelangelo
(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor
Da Vinci
Renaissance inventor and artist who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Medici Family
Ruled Florence during the Renaissance
Machiavelli
Renaissance writer; formerly a politician
Erasmus
Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe
Northern Renaissance
An extension of the Italian Renaissance to the nations Germany
Protestant Reformation
A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protes
Martin Luther
95 Thesis
Indulgences and purgatory
Those who were not baptized but did not deserve hell (dead babies) or simply didn't deserve heaven either went here (Limbo). By giving money
Luther's teachings
Salvation by faith alone in God's gift of forgiveness
Peace of Augsburg (1555)
Document in which Charles V recognized Lutheranism as a legal religion in the Holy Roman Empire. The faith of the prince determined the reli
John Calvin
religious reformer who believed in predestination and a strict sense of morality for society
Huguenots
French Protestants influenced by John Calvin
Edict of Nantes
1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of conscience and worship.
Henry VIII
English king who created the Church of England after the Pope refused to annul his marriage (divorce with Church approval)
Elizabeth I
English Queen and politique who united Protestants and Catholics through compromise and establishes the Anglican Church as the official chur
Catholic Counter-Reformation
how the Catholic Church responded to the challenges of the Protestants
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
religious organization that became the "spiritual arm" for the Counter-Reformation
Inquisition
A Roman Catholic tribunal for investigating and prosecuting charges of heresy - especially the one active in Spain during the 1400s.
Gutenberg Printing Press
used movable type to print
God
Gold
Henry theNavigator
(1394-1460) Prince of Portugal
Vasco de Gama (Portugal)
Discovered a route to India for Portugal
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
Sir Francis Drake
English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596
Magellan
This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world
Jacques Cartier
The first French explorer to explore mainland Canada in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.