Renaissance
A period of creativity, new ideas, from about 1350-1500.
What is the Renaissance
The period in history that was a religious reform movement to change the Catholic Church.
What is the Reformation?
The widespread change in European views and a series of events that led to the birth of modern science.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
A tubular instrument used to help us see distant objects in detail that was made during the Scientific Revolution.
What is a telescope?
An important artist of the Renaissance period. He created the David and The Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
The French word for Renaissance.
What is "rebirth"?
A German monk that nailed a list of complaints about the Church to a church door in Wittenberg.
Who is Martin Luther?
He was an Italian scientist that gathered evidence to support Copernicus' theory the earth revolved around the sun.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
An educated guess that we make to guess what the result of an experiment will be.
What is a Hypothesis?
Leonardo Di Vinci created what famous painting during the Renaissance period?
What is The Mona Lisa?
During and after the crusades, Italian cities __________ and Venice became wealthy through trade.
What is Florence?
Martin Luther complained about this practice of purchasing forgiveness of sins in his 95 Theses.
What are indulgences?
One invention that led to greater discoveries with the stars and planets.
What is the telescope?
The _______________ _______________ is a process for experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions.
What is the Scientific Method?
English poet and playwright who demonstrated Humanist beliefs in his work; wrote dozens of plays including "Romeo and Juliet" and "Julius Caesar".
What is Shakespeare?
___________ were focused on the natural world over the spiritual world.
Who were Humanists?
The invention that made the Bible cheaper and easily available to the common people.
What is the printing press?
The scientist that is best known for his work with gravity. He discovered gravity while sitting under an apple tree.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
A Flemish physician that dissected human corpses and published his observations.
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
What were the characteristics of Renaissance art?
What were realistic, 3-dimensional, non-religious, included landscapes? (at least 2 of these for your answer.)
The _____________ introduced Italy to science, medicine, and astronomy.
Who were Muslims?
A series of reforms that the Catholic officials to turn more focus from political to spiritual concerns.
What is the Counter Reformation?
A Polish astronomer who made the now accepted Heliocentric theory that the Earth and the other Planets move around the Sun. (1473–1543)
Who is Copernicus?
The sun-centered view of the universe?
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
Who is the Medici family?