Renaissance and Humanism
This Italian artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This period began in Italian city-states and was inspired by renewed interest in the art, literature, and ideas of ancient Greece and Rome.
What is the Renaissance?
This Italian political thinker wrote The Prince.
Who was Niccolò Machiavelli?
What disease killed millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages?
The Black Plague
This word describes ideas or activities that are not controlled by religion.
What is secular?
Where did the Renaissance originate?
Florence, Italy
This German monk criticized the sale of indulgences and challenged the authority of the Roman Catholic Church.
Martin Luther
Machiavelli’s book focused on how rulers could gain and maintain this.
What is political power?
This period marked a major change in how people studied science and the natural world.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This term refers to a segregated neighborhood where Jewish people were often forced to live in European cities.
What is a ghetto?
This Renaissance philosophy emphasized human potential, individual achievement, education, and the study of classical Greek and Roman texts
What is humanism?
This movement led to the creation of new Christian denominations that challenged the authority of the Catholic Church.
What was the Protestant Reformation?
What famous rapper was inspired by The Prince?
Tupac Shakur
This scientist believed that the Sun, not Earth, was at the center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This word describes the buying and selling of goods between different regions or countries
What is trade?
This wealthy banking family supported artists, architects, and scholars in Florence.
Who were the Medici?
This Renaissance belief encouraged people to use reason and observation instead of accepting every idea without question.
What is critical thinking?
Machiavelli said it is better for a ruler to be feared than what?
What is loved?
What is one reason scientific discoveries were limited?
Before the Scientific Revolution, many Europeans relied on the ideas of ancient scholars and Church teachings instead of testing ideas through experiments.
This word describes a major change that transforms society, government, religion, or ideas.
What is a revolution?
From Italy, the Renaissance spread northward into which region?
What was Western Europe?
Give one reason Luther’s ideas spread quickly throughout Europe.
The printing press spread his ideas; some rulers supported him; people criticized Church corruption; or Bibles became available in local languages.
Machiavelli’s ideas helped influence politics and contributed to the creation of what field of study?
What is political science?
This step-by-step process uses observation, questions, experiments, and evidence to study the natural world.
What is the scientific method?
This idea means that countries and people became more connected through trade, travel, and the exchange of ideas.
What is interconnectedness?