World History Students should learn these words:
dynasty--A family of monarchs.
Zhu Yuanzhang started the Ming Dynasty in China.
Charles V, of the Habsburg Dynasty, ruled the Holy Roman Empire, Franche
Comte, Spain, and the Spanish colonies in the New World.
patrician -- belonging to a wealthy and powerful family.
The Medicis were a patrician family in Florence.
Johannes Gutenberg was born to a patrician family in Mainz, Germany.
peasant -- A farmer with very little land or money.
Zhu Yuanzhang was born into a peasant family.
fresco -- A wall painting in fresh plaster.
The artists Giotto and Michelangelo were famous for their frescoes.
patron -- Someone who supports artists.
Lorenzo de Medici was a famour patron of the arts.
eccelsiastical -- concerning the church
Martin Luther followed an ecclesiastical career.
autocratic -- Concentrating power in one person's hands.
Zhu Yuanzhang was an autocratic ruler whose power was not limited by law.
despot -- A tyrant or autocratic ruler.
Many said the Lorenzo de Medici was the despot of Florence.
maritime -- On the sea.
Mongols -- A people from Central Asia who conquered most lands between Poland and Korea and Siberia, Burma, and Persia during the 12th and 13th centuries.
Kublai Khan was the most powerful Mongol emperor of China.
Yuan -- The Mongol dynasty in China.
Kublai Khan was the greatest of the Yuan emperors.
Ming -- The dynasty which Zhu Yuanzhang established after expelling the Mongols.
The Ming dynasty lasted from 13689-1644 A.D.
maritime -- Related to the sea or ships.
Florence carried on a great maritime trade with the Ottoman Empire.
surrogate -- a substitute or representative.
Don't make copying papers and quizzes a surrogate for doing your own study.
Tuscan-- from or related to Tuscany, the Italian region around Florence.
Dante Alighieri wrote in the Tsucan dialect of Italian.
conspiracy -- A plan to do something bad.
The Pazzi family and Archbishop of Pisa were in a conspiracy against Lorenzo
de Medici.
Ottoman -- The Turkish Empire that covered most of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe in Renaissance and early modern times.
Mehmet II conquered Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453 and made it the capital
city of the Ottoman Empire.
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