1 / 17

Unit 5 Illustrated Glossary

Unit 5 Illustrated Glossary. Age of Exploration. The period of European exploration overseas from about 1400 to 1600. astrolabe.

reed
Download Presentation

Unit 5 Illustrated Glossary

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Unit 5 Illustrated Glossary

  2. Age of Exploration • The period of European exploration overseas from about 1400 to 1600.

  3. astrolabe an instrument, now replaced by the sextant, that was once used by mariners to determine the altitude of the sun or other celestial bodies. It helped determine latitude.

  4. Cape of Good Hope • The southern tip of Africa • The Portuguese tried to go around the Cape of Good Hope to reach India.

  5. caravel a light sailing ship with two or three masts, used in the Mediterranean from the 14th to the 17th centuries

  6. circumnavigate • To sail or fly completely around something, such as Earth. • Magellan’s crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.

  7. Florence, Genoa & Venice • Italian city-states where most of the significant achievements that came out of Renaissance. • It was in these northern cities that the environment of imagination and creativity and the generous spirit of patronage blossomed.

  8. gunpowder • an explosive mixture used in guns and blasting • It started the increase of new weaponry and changed the way countries wage war.

  9. Humanism An idea developed during the Renaissance that focused on the nature, ideals and achievements of human beings, rather than on the role Church in everyday life.

  10. Magnetic compass an instrument used to indicate magnetic north and other directions, containing a magnetic needle that swings horizontally around a circle marked in degrees or with the points of the compass

  11. origin • Basic source or cause • The origin of many spices is the Moluccas Islands.

  12. perspective a technique of painting or drawing a scene so that objects in it seem to have depth and distance

  13. Printing Press • A machine that produces printed copies. • Gutenberg is credited for inventing the printing press.

  14. realism showing things as they really are in art, literature and theater

  15. Renaissance The period of the rebirth of learning in Europe between about 1300 and 1600.

  16. Renaissance Man A cultured person who is knowledgeable, very skilled, talented and successful in a wide range of fields. Suleiman the Magnificent and Leonardo da Vinci could be considered Renaissance men.

  17. Strait of Magellan • The channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans near the tip of South America discovered by Magellan.

More Related