AP European History - Unit 1

• patronage

• republic

• (princely) court

• Medicis

• balance of power

• Girolamo Savonarola (1452‐1498)

• Francesco Petrarch (1304‐1374)

• civic humanism

• individualism

• secularism

• scientific naturalism / perspective

• High Renaissance (1500‐1527)

• artists: Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo

• Pico della Mirandola/On the Dignity of Man

• Giorgio Vasari (1511‐1574) / Lives of the Artists

• Baldassare Castiglione/The Courtier

• Niccoló Machiavelli (1469‐1527)/The Prince

• virtú 

• Lorenzo Valla

• “Renaissance man”

• printing press/movable type

• Gutenberg’s Bible (1456)

• Northern Renaissance/ Christian(northern) humanism

• Thomas More (1478‐1535)/Utopia

• Desiderius Erasmus/In Praise of Folly

• “New monarchs”

France:

• Charles VII (r. 1422‐1461)

• Louis XI (r. 1461‐1483),

• “Spider King”

• Concordat of Bologna (1516)

• Jacques Cartier

England:

• Edward IV (r. 1461‐1483)

• Richard III (r. 1483‐1485)

• Henry VII (r. 1485‐1509)

• Tudors

• Wars of the Roses

• court of Star Chamber

• John Cabot

Spain:

• Ferdinand and Isabella (r.

1474‐1516)

• reconquista

• conversos/ New Christians

• Spanish Inquisition

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Hernando Cortés

• Francisco Pizarro

Portugal:

• Prince Henry “the Navigator” (1394-1460)

• Bartholomew Diaz

• Vasco da Gama

• Pedro Alvares Cabral

• Ferdinand Magellan

Exploration:

• Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

• encomienda system

• Bartolomé de las Casas (1474-1566)

• Columbian Exchange

• Atlantic slave trade

• Spain’s golden century (16th c.)

• price revolution (refers to the 16th c. inflation)

• Dutch East and West India Companies

• caravel (w/ lateen sail & sternpost rudder)

• Ptolemy’s Geography (re-released ca. 1410)

• magnetic compass

• astrolabe

• conquistador