The Renaissance, The Black Death, and the Fall of Constantinople

The pope living in France, last pope in line returned to Rome, France appointed their own pope

The Avionon Papacy

Where did the Black Death start at?

Asia and moved West

What was the bacteria of the Black Death?

Yersinia pestis

Can infect humans via BLANK on BLANK (rats or BLANK)

Fleas, rodents, marmots

Plague bacterium cause?

Pneumonic, septicemia, and bubonic plague

How did the Black Death spread?

Theories originated in China and spread via Silk Road, spread by Mongols

When did Mongols launch their own dead bodies over the wall and plague spread and broke out?

Siege of Caffa

Mongols ate?

Marmots

Black Death kills BLANK of Europe’s population

50%

Responses to the Black Death (three)

1. Medicine (3 doctors)

2. Blame the Jews (burn at stake and poison wells, pope opposed this)

3. Interpret plague as God’s judgement, and try to atone for sin

Who whipped themselves or each other to atone or penance

The Flagellants

Which pope tried to protect the Jews?

Pope Clement VI

The new age?

The Renaissance

Leonardo Davinci made?

The Mona LIsa

Michelangelo, 17ft tall, Florence

David statue

Author of The Prince, it is better to be feared than loved

Machiavelli

Renaissance begins in ?

Italy!

Renaissance is a BLANK that looks back on Middle Ages as BLANK

rebirth

Dark Ages

Renaissance focuses on reviving BLANK and BLANK culture

Greek and Roman

Proven to be a forgery during the renaissance

Donation of Constantine

• claimed Constantine fave land and territory and rights to the Pope

Heart of the Renaissance?

Florence

Amerigo BLANK

Vespucci

Dante Alighieri- the Divine comedy also called

Dante’s Inferno

Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz, Gutenberg Bible

The Printing Press

Byzantine Empire what is left the Ottoman Empire

Constantinople

Giant Cannons

Vulnerability

Length 24 feet, diameter 2.5 feet, cannonball the BLANK

Basilic

Fall of Constantinople = Fall of?

Byzantine Empire