Renaissance Review
The structure of a plant or animal.
What is anatomy?
To behead.
What is Decapitate?
Shape of the moon or planet seen at any one time.
What is a phase?
Producing much or many things.
What is prolific?
A nation where the people have the right to make the laws or elect those who make the laws.
What is representative democracy?
A painting created on fresh, moist plaster.
What is a fresco?
Study of what makes things move & how.
What is mechanics?
Study of simple substances & what happens when they are combined.
What is chemistry?
The scientific study of weather.
What is meteorology?
This was because people thought the literature, art, & learning were undergoing a “rebirth”.
What was the Renaissance?
A German parliament.
What is a Diet?
Beliefs & customs handed down from parents to children over generations?
What is tradition?
Scientific study of plant & animal life.
What is biology?
An amusing play or story with a happy ending.
What is a comedy?
This was a movement in the Renaissance that thought human ideas of good/bad should guide society instead of the Church.
What was humanism?
The scientific study of how all the different kinds of bodies move.
What is Physics?
An idea presented for a debate.
What is a thesis?
The killing of a king.
What is regicide?
Lack of self-control; The ability to follow what one desires, not what is right.
What is license?
Modern science begin with in the 1500s with this person.
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
A defense or protection.
What is a Bulwark?
The over 700 year struggle by Christian Spaniards to regain Spain from Muslim Arabs.
What was the Reconquest?
Belief that everyone must obey the king without question because he receives the right to rule from God.
What is divine right of kings?
A government in which the people elect representatives who, in turn, make the laws.
What is commonwealth?
Invented the first printing press which he used to print the Latin Bible in 1455.
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
Conquered the Aztecs for Spain.
Who was Hernán Cortés?
Denied the organization of the Church under bishops & rejected the reality of the sacraments.
Who was John Calvin?
Key figure in the Protestant Revolt; Founded the Protestant religion.
Who was Martin Luther?
After the English Parliament evolved, the government served as a model for this country.
What is America?
These two events: Christendom split and divided nations by religion and the Council of Trent reformed the Church, were effects of this revolution/reformation.
What was the Protestant Reformation?