AP European History
Identifications – Unit 1 (Ch 10 & 16*)
Directions:
Create a notecard identifying the key information for the terms in each chapter. Each notecard
must include the following:
: Front – Identification (ID) - centered on notecard
: Back – List/explain as many of the following as possible:
a. Definition – identify and explain the ID in detail
b. Time and place – identify when and where the ID occurred or is used (what
“era”)
c. Impact – identify the impact the ID had on European History (cause/effect,
change)
d. Associations – what other terms/people/events is this ID associated with
- For Terms – focus on basic definitions – What does the term mean?
- For People – include person’s title, occupation, works of art/literature, events they are involved
in, ideas, decisions they made – Who is this person and what did they do that is
important in European History?
- For Events – include what happened, who was involved (individuals, groups, nations, states)
Unit 1 – Renaissance and Discovery
Chapter 10
1. Jacob Burckhardt
2. Renaissance
3. City-states
4. Ciompi Revolt
5. Diplomacy
6. Florentine social divisions
7. Medici (Cosimo, Lorenzo)
8. Podesta (despots)
9. Condottieri
10. Humanism/humanists
11. Studia humanitatis (Humanities)
12. Francesco Petrarch
13. Dante Alighieri/Divine Comedy
14. Giovanni Boccaccio/The Decameron
15. Baldassare Castiglione/Book of the Courtier
16. Christine de Pisan
17. Florentine Academy and Platonism
18. Pico della Mirandola
19. Lorenzo Valla
20. Donation of Constantine
21. Civic humanism
22. Chiaroscuro
23. Linear perspective
24. Leonardo da Vinci
25. Raphael
26. Michelangelo
27. Mannerism
28. Treaty of Lodi
29. Ludovico il Moro
30. Charles VIII (Fr)
31. Girolamo Savonarola
32. League of Venice
33. Niccolo Machiavelli/The Prince
34. New Monarchs/“Revival of Monarchy”
35. Gabelle
36. Golden Bull
37. Printing press
38. Erasmus
39. Thomas More/Utopia
40. Prince Henry the Navigator
41. Christopher Columbus
42. Hernan Cortes
43. Francisco Pizarro
44. Conquistadores
45. Hacienda
46. Peninsulares
47. Creoles
48. Encomienda