Unit 1: The Renaissance
What is the other name for the Bubonic Plague?
The Black Death
What is the name of the author of the 95 Theses?
Martin Luther
Name an Absolutist ruler from this time period.
Answers will vary. Judged at the discretion of Mr. Rowan.
Name an Enlightened thinker from this age.
Answers will vary. Judged at the discretion of Mr. Rowan
What is Mr. Rowan currently getting his Master's Degree in at Kean University?
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Why was Florence, Italy able to become the birthplace of the Renaissance?
Florence had access to many trading ports which permitted many merchants to become very wealthy and invest their extra wealth in the arts and education.
Johannes Gutenberg was the inventor of which machine that assisted in the spread of Protestant ideas?
The Printing Press
What is the name of the book regarded as the foundation of capitalism?
The Wealth of Nations by, Adam Smith
What was the focus of the Scientific Revolution?
Establishing practices built upon logic and reason
What was Mr. Rowan's top artist on his Spotify Wrapped this year?
Ghost
What is the term for the journey that enslaved Africans were forced to perform as they were shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas?
The Middle Passage
What is the name of the art style - built upon traditions of Renaissance and Mannerist art - that attempted to shock and awe their audiences?
Baroque art
By the end of the English Civil War, was Britain a country with an ABSOLUTE monarchy or NO monarchy?
NO monarchy
What is the "social contract"?
An agreement where by joining society, we accept that we have to give up some of our rights for protection
What did Mr. Rowan write his college thesis about?
HINT: We have not studied it as a class so far this year.
Chernobyl
Why did explorers like Vasco de Gama want to travel to India?
Spices, luxury goods, porcelain, etc.
What is the name of the chapter of Writing on the Wall that we read for class?
How Luther Went Viral
What is the term for the economic system that was based on the idea that a nation's wealth and power was built upon increasing exports and trade?
Mercantilism
Was it more likely for an Enlightened monarch to be truly enlightened or revert to absolutist tendencies?
Revert to absolutist tendencies
Name a play or musical that Mr. Rowan has seen on or off Broadway this year.
Urinetown, The Outsiders, Floyd Collins, Hadestown, John Proctor is the Villain, Heathers, The Book of Mormon, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
The Spanish used gunpowder to flex their might in their colonial conquests. Where was gunpowder originally from?
China
Why does Martin Luther continue to serve as an example of "Great Man History"?
Answers will vary. Judged at the discretion of Mr. Rowan.
Which smaller European country experienced a "Golden Age" during this time period?
REMINDER: What is the country's name? NOT what do we call their citizens.
The Netherlands
Explain the theory of empiricism as promoted by Sir Francis Bacon.
The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience
Where should Mr. Rowan go in vacation this summer?
Only positive points going to the "BEST" answer. No points subtracted from all other answers.
Answers will vary. Judged at the discretion of Mr. Rowan