Renaissance Rewind
This Italian city-state is considered the cradle of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
He proposed the heliocentric model of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
Known as the "Virgin Queen."
Who is Elizabeth I?
This French philosopher championed freedom of speech and religion.
Who is Voltaire?
This English king lost his head after the English Civil War.
Who is Charles I?
He wrote The Prince, a political guidebook on power and statecraft.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
He developed the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Henry VIII wanted this woman so badly that he divorced his first wife.
Who is Anne of Boleyn?
This Scottish thinker wrote The Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
This Dutch stadtholder became king of England in 1688.
Who is William of Orange (William III)?
This term refers to a focus on human potential and achievement.
What is humanism?
This Italian scientist used the telescope to support heliocentrism.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
As daughter of Isabella of Castile, she went on to become an English queen.
Who is Catherine of Aragon?
He wrote The Social Contract and believed in the “general will.”
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This 17th-century French minister strengthened royal power under Louis XIII.
Who is Cardinal Richelieu?
This 14th-century Florentine is considered the "Father of Humanism" in the Renaissance.
Who is Petrarch?
This Englishman emphasized inductive reasoning and the scientific method.
Who is Francis Bacon?
This royal matriarch and powerful political player earned the nickname "the serpent queen".
Who is Catherine de Medici?
Locke’s idea that government derives power from the consent of the governed is called this.
What is popular sovereignty?
He was once the second most powerful man in England, but he fell from the king's favor after failing to secure a papal annulment for Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Who is Cardinal Wolsey?
He painted The School of Athens and was known for his balanced compositions.
Who is Raphael?
He used experiments and dissections, not just ancient texts, to prove that the heart, not the liver, was the source of blood's motion.
Who is William Harvey?
Her wedding to Protestant leader, Henry of Navarre, led to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Who is Princess Marguerite de Valois? Her mother was Catherine de Medici.
This 17th-century French philosopher declared, “I think, therefore I am.”
Who is René Descartes?
The _____________ was a series of uprisings against royal authority in France in the 17th century.
What is the Fronde?