The Age of Exploration
This person is credited with being the first European to document traveling the the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The study of religion, faith, and religious practices.
What is Theology?
This scholar made many contributions to art, science, and engineering, including painting “The Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper”
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
English mathematician and physicist that is known for discovering gravity
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
A pandemic that was spread by rats and fleas on trade routes. It is believed to have killed up to 50% of Europe's 14th century population.
What is the Black Plague (Bubonic Plague, or Black Death)
This was the first European to travel to the Americas and realize it was a new continent. The continents are named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The church started by Henry VIII
What is the Church of England (or the Anglican Church)
An English playwright and poet who helped standardize the English Language
Who is William Shakespeare?
Italian physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who improved the telescope & discovered Jupiters 4 largest moons
Who is Galileo Galilei?
A person who reigns over a kingdom or empire: such as a king or queen
What is Monarch?
This country sponsored the expeditions of Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto, and Ferdinand Magellan
What is Spain?
German monk who started the Protestant Church
Who is Martin Luther?
He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, and sculpted the Statue of David
Who is Michelangelo?
The belief that the Earth is at the center of the solar system/universe
What is Geocentric?
Ferdinand and Isabella got married and united this country.
What is Spain?
The first person to lead an expedition sailing completely around the world, proving the Earth is round.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The document that was supposedly nailed on the door at the beginning of the Protestant Reformation
What is The 95 Theses?
The study of basic ideas about knowledge, truth, and the meaning of life
Scientist that proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun at the center with the planets orbiting around it
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
A social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return
What is Feudalism?
The first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa, called the Cape of Good Hope
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
The first person to translate the Bible into English
Who is William Tyndale?
Idea that shaped the Renaissance. Focuses less on religion, and more on human choice and curiosity
What is Humanism?
German astronomer & mathematician who used his 3 laws of planetary motion to prove that Planets move in ellipses (ovals), not perfect circles
Who is Johannes Kepler
Ferdinand & Isabella used this to punish non-Catholics, or force them to leave their country on the basis of Heresy. It resulted in less religious diversity in Spain.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?