Scientifically-speaking
Improved on the telescope so the moon and stars could be seen and studied better:
Galileo
The "Renaissance Man" who was a brilliant artist, sculptor, engineer ... you name it, he could do it, was who?
Leonardo da Vinci
A "rebirth" or reflecting back on the better parts (art, sculpture, music) of ancient Greece and Rome came to be known as the:
Renaissance
Who was Martin Luther?
German priest in the 1500s
What was the first thing printed on the printing press?
The Bible
Most famous scientist ... laws of gravity and motion ...
Isaac Newton
This person invented the printing press in Germany around 1440 ..... what's his name?
Johannes Gutenbereg
In what European country did the Renaissance start?
Italy (the city of Florence, to be exact)
What did Martin Luther do that changed the religious world forever?
Nailed his ideas to the church door in Wittenburg, Germany that challenged the Catholic Church (and its authority)
The kind of government where businesses can make their own money (and maybe get rich!), instead of the government getting rich, is called:
Capitalism
A series of events that led to a change of thought, not so much just basing everything on faith, but now on proving things in this "revolution"
Scientific Revolution
Baron de Montesquieu was a French philosophe who believed there should be a "___________________ of powers" in government. What word completed the sentence?
Separation
A series of religious events that went against the Catholic Church, even dividing it, was known as the:
Protestant Reformation
What religious group didn't want information about new scientific findings to get out, since it might hurt its power (and ca$h flow, too!)?
Catholic Church
Why did Galileo have to keep his scientific discoveries a secret until he was about to die of old age?
Because the Catholic Church did not want to hear things that it disagreed with and and the Church could have killed Galileo ....
What does the "heliocentric theory" state?
The sun is the center of the universe.
Who was the scientist that developed the "scientific method" where information is figured out by a set process -- not by guessing?
Francis Bacon
A series of events that led to the growth of modern science came to be called the:
Scientific Revolution
Name for the documents Martin Luther nailed to his church door:
95 theses
Who was the person who had early ideas about airplanes, tanks, submarines and many more things 500 years before they would be invented?
Leonardo da Vinci
Polish scientist who discovered that the sun (not the earth) is the center of the universe .....
Copernicus
Englishman whose ideas on the "rights of men" that Thomas Jefferson copied for the Declaration of Independence, was:
John Locke
Belief in man's reasoning to solve his problems and figure out his world, and not on blind faith, started the "Age of ______________". Fill in the blank.
Age of Enlightenment
The event that made people focus more on God, reason, and nature - rather than just belief in the Catholic Church - came to be called the:
Protestant Reformation
What country was Copernicus from?
Poland