The Renaissance
Which city-state is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance?
What is Florence?
Who wrote the Ninety-Five Theses?
Who is Martin Luther?
What does the term “heliocentric” mean?
What is the sun is the center of the universe?
Who sailed west across the Atlantic hoping to find a new route to Asia?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” was inspired by which Enlightenment thinker?
Who is John Locke?
Which ancient cultures inspired Renaissance thinkers?
What are Classical Rome and Classical Greece?
What was the main reason Henry VIII started the Anglican Church?
What is to divorce his first wife and have an heir to the throne?
What is a heretic?
Someone who goes against the teachings of the church?
What was the Middle Passage?
What is the journey of enslaved persons from Africa to the Americas?
Which document, written during the French Revolution, proclaimed the rights of man?
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Which type of philosophy emphasized the value of human life on Earth during the Renaissance?
What is humanism?
What practice by the Catholic Church did Martin Luther criticize in his Ninety-Five Theses?
What is the selling of indulgences?
What is the scientific method?
What are experimentation and observation?
Who set up a navigational school?
Who was Prince Henry?
Which phrase best sums up the guiding principles of the French Revolution?
What is "Liberty, equality, fraternity"?
Who invented the printing press?
Who is Guttenberg?
What major impact did the Reformation have on Europe?
What is the division of Christianity into Protestant and Catholic branches?
Name one other scholar we studied and what they did.
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What treaty split the world for exploration between Portugal and Spain?
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Which Enlightenment thinker believed in the separation of powers in government?
Who is Montesquieu?
What technique did Renaissance painters use to add depth to their paintings?
What is perspective?
Who was the German priest who sold so many indulgences that he was called out in the 95 Theses?
Who was Johannes Tetzel?
Who was the muslim scholar who inspired the Scientific Revolution on your study guide?
Who was al-Kindi? He contributed to the preservation and dissemination of Greek philosophy, bridging classical knowledge to the medieval world.
Which civilization in current-day Mexico developed advanced societies before Europeans arrived?
What was the Aztec civilization?
What was the main goal of the Congress of Vienna?
What is to restore order and balance of power in Europe?