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This man started a printing revolution in Europe.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
100
a religious group that has broken away from a more established group
What is a sect?
100
a thriving trade region of northern Europe that includes parts of modern day Belgium, Netherlands and France; where the northern Renaissance began
What is Flanders?
100
This well-known reformer denounced the peasants rebelling against nobles in an attempt to bring about social change.
Who is Martin Luther?
100
Thinkers who followed this philosophy were different from medieval thinkers because they focused more on worldly subjects.
What is humanism?
200
This English scientist developed the idea that the force of gravity keeps the planets in orbit.
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
the idea that God has already determined who would and wouldn't be saved
What is predestination?
200
A city in northern Italy that was very important for the Renaissance, due to the fact that the Medici family supported so many scholars and artists
What is Florence?
200
This man's desire to divorce his wife so he could marry a beautiful young woman led to the creation of the Church of England.
Who is Henry VIII?
200
This Italian humanist collected the works of Greek and Roman writers, like Cicero, Homer, and Virgil.
Who is Petrarch?
300
This Italian artist sketched flying machines long before the first airplanes and helicopters.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
a government run by religious leaders
What is a theocracy?
300
John Calvin led this Swiss city as a Protestant model of morality.
What is Geneva?
300
The work of this German astronomer proves that the planets move around the sun in oval-shaped orbits.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
300
This northern Renaissance author wrote about an ideal society that lives in peace and harmony.
Who is Thomas More?
400
This Polish-German astronomer was among the first to propose a heliocentric (sun-centered) model of the solar system.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
400
Renaissance artists reflected this philosophy by painting well-known, important figures of the day.
What is humanism?
400
A 1555 peace agreement in this city led to the decision that each German prince could decide which religion would be followed in his territory.
What is Augsburg? (the Peace of Augsburg)
400
This man invented a better form of a microscope, and was the first person we know of to see cells and microorganisms.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
400
Today's Baptists, Mennonites, and Amish trace their roots back to this religious group.
Who are the Anabaptists?
500
This author wrote a famous guidebook for leaders to teach them how to gain and keep power.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
500
The time period marked by an increased interest in classical learning and the arts
What is the Renaissance?
500
Many scholars agree that Christian beliefs and superstitious beliefs combined, leading to this...
What is persecution of people as "witches"?
500
This Italian architect called architecture a "social art" meant to improve society through combining beauty and purpose.
Who is Leon Alberti?
500
During this time period harsh penalties were enacted to combat corruption in the clergy.
What is the Catholic Reformation?
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