World History People and Places AD 1500 - 1550
| Russian tsar who halted payments to the Mongols in AD 1480 and tripled the size of Russia. | Ivan III (the Great) |
| Italian Dominican priest who resisted the humanism of the Renaissance but was eventually burned as a heretic. | Savonarola |
| Aside from land and wealth, what was the equally important purpose for Spanish expansion in the New World? | Catholic evangelization |
| The powerful Spanish king who fostered art, colonial expansion and whose Armada met defeat by England. | Philip II |
| Spanish priest who helped the Indians by exaggerating abuses by some of the Spanish colonists. | Bartolome de Las Casas |
| Independent Spanish soldiers who raised their own armies and conquered the New World in return for land and wealth. | Conquistadores |
| Spanish conquistadore who conquered the Mexican Aztec Empire in 1521 with the aid of Indian allies. | Hernan Cortes |
| The Spanish conquistadore who conquered the Inca Empire in Peru. | Francisco Pizarro |
| What 16th century Italian writer who advocated immoral actions since the ‘ends justifies the means’. | Machiavelli |
| Leader of the 1519-1521 expedition that first circumnavigated the globe for Spain. | Ferdinand Magellan |