Renaissance people
What family helped start up the Renaissance?
Medici
Who is a Renaissance man?
Someone who is good at everything
The Po river is in Italy
True or False?
True
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
What theory did the church use for 1,400 years? Geocentric or heliocentric?
Geocentric
Leonardo Da ____
Vinci
A banker is?
people like the Medici family that made loans and grew
wealthy from interest
Where did the Renaissance start?
Florence, Italy
Who made David?
Michelanglo
Who invented the telescope and the microscope?
Galileo Galilei
Who added the idea that plants move in oval paths called ellipses
Johannes Kepler
What is a playwright?
A person who writes plays like William Shakespeare
What mountain range is above Italy?
Alps
Jesus and his disciples
Who discovered gravity?
Isaac Newton
Name one play Shakespeare made
Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Hamlet, or Macbeth
What is a scholar?
An educated person that often has knowledge in a particular
subject but sometimes in many subjects as in the case of
painter/sculpture/inventor Leonardo Da Vinci.
What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
Where did Michelangelo paint scenes from the Bible?
The Sistine Chapel
The sun is the center of the
Solar system
Aristotle made the geocentric theory but who made the heliocentric theory and who proved it?
Hint: two people
Nicholaus Copernicus and Galileo Gallei
What is a Secular?
Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters.
What two cultures was the Renaissance inspired from?
Greek and Roman
Leonardo da Vinci was a painter but he was also an
Inventor
What machine helped spread information across the world?
Printing press