"When a coin in the box rings, the soul from purgatory springs." This quote refers to what practice of the Catholic Church?
What is the selling of indulgences?
100
The first scientist to question the Ptolemaic model of the universe
Who is Copernicus?
100
He developed the scientific method
Who is Francis Bacon?
100
These words mean "earth-centered" and "sun-centered"
What are geocentric and heliocentric?
200
The name of Michelangelo's most famous statue
What is The David?
200
The pious monk who tried to reform the Catholic Church from within with an emphasis on humility and education
Who is Ignatius of Loyola?
200
Kepler improved Copernicus's theory by showing that planets move in these
What are elliptical orbits?
200
A new major concept that John Calvin introduced to Protestantism
What is predestination?
200
The definition of "secular"
What is non-religious or worldly?
300
The name of the technique that brought geometry into painting during the Renaissance, and was used by Raphael in paintings like "The Marriage of Virgin" and "The School of Athens"
What is perspective?
300
The name of the monk whose practices Luther thought were corrupt
Who is Johann Tetzel
300
This mathematician and philosopher promoted deductive reasoning
Who is Rene Descartes?
300
Protestants and Catholics alike persecuted these people, members a radical branch of Protestantism who would not hold public office or fight in wars
Who are Anabaptists?
300
Meaning "in the local or common language"
What is "vernacular"?
400
The family that controlled Florence and paid Niccolo Machiavelli for his advice
Who are the Medicis?
400
Johannes Gutenberg is famous for this
What is inventing the printing press?
400
What Galileo Galilei is rumored to have muttered on his way out of the trial at which he recanted his famous book for the Catholic Church
What is "And yet it does move!"?
400
The name of Henry VIII's first wife, whom he wanted to divorce
Who is Catherine of Aragon?
400
In modern parlance, a word meaning politically cunning and liable to deceive
What is "machiavellian?"
500
A black flag flying over the Globe Theater meant this:
What is the signal that a tragedy by Shakespeare would be performed that night?
500
The cities that Zwingli and Calvin established their Protestant churches in, respectively
What are Zurich and Geneva?
500
Newton's Third Law of Motion, published in 1642
What is "every action has an equal and opposite reaction?"
500
The study of knowledge
What is epistemology?
500
This philosophy separated mind from matter, allowing scientists to pursue their experiments without interference from the Catholic Church