Vocabulary Review for CA #4: Renaissance - Americas

The buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas

• Atlantic Ocean Slave Trade

• Indian Ocean Slave Trade

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

A deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe in the mid 14th century, killing millions of people and leading to massive social change

• Black Death

• Measles

• Malaria

• Typhoid

A 16th century movement in which the Roman Catholic Church sought to make changes in response to the Protestant Reformation

• Counter Reformation

• Protestant Reformation

• Lutheranism

• Calvinism

A body of officials who perform religious services - such as priests, ministers, rabbis

• Clergy

• Nobility

• Monarchy

The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occured during European colonization of Americas

• Columbian Exchange

• Transatlantic Trade

• Silk Road

The Spanish soldiers, explorers and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century

• Conquistadors

• Knights of Columbus

• Crusaders

A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers

• Encomienda

• Casta system

• Indentured servitude

An ancient culture that developed from blending of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman cultures that reawakened in the Renaissance

• Greco-Roman culture

• Persian culture

• Culture of Alexander the Great

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

• Humanism

• Individualism

• Secularism

A pardon releasing a person from punishments due for sin; leading complaint for Martin Luther about Roman Catholic Church

• Indulgence

• Confession

• Penance