AP Euro Unit 1

Why was Florence the hotspot of the Renaissance?

The wealth earned by textile merchants and bankers

Who wrote the Oration of the Dignity of Man

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, its about a humans potential for greatness

Lorenzo Valla

Used historical and linguistic analysis to demonstrate that the Donation of Constantine was forgery

What was Erasmus’s nickname

Prince of the Humanists

Who wrote the Praise of Folly?

Erasmus

What was the Concordant of Bologna?

Authorized kings to nominate bishops, abbots, and high officials of the Catholic Church

Star Chamber

A political weapon where court sessions were held in secret with no right of appeal, no juries, and no witnesses

One Law One King One State

The king has control over everything

Prince Henry the Navigator

Organized voyages along the west coast of Africa

Commercial Trading posts

Instead of concurring territories the Portuguese fortified trading posts

Who controlled the lucrative trading posts of India?

Venice