German law student-turned-monk, who protested the corruption of the Catholic Church and was excommunicated for his writings at the Diet of Worms.
What is Martin Luther?
100
Science.
What is the study of the natural world?
100
The commodity that allowed Afroeurasia a currency with which to trade with India and China.
What is silver?
100
The Aristotelian theory that was abandoned for the Copernican view of the universe.
What is Geocentricity or Geocentrism?
200
The original Renaissance Man: painter, inventor, sculptor, anatomist...
What is Leonardo Da Vinci?
200
The religion of Elizabeth 1.
What is Protestantism?
200
The discovery that shook the Old World's belief system, concurrent with the Reformation and Renaissance, which spurred on the Scientific Revolution.
What is the New World?
200
The main export of Africa which was central to the trade triangle between Europe, Africa and the West Indies?
What are slaves?
200
The term given to describe the social and political structure of medieval Europe that is characterized by relationships between Lords and Vassals, similar to the patron-client system of Ancient Rome.
What is Feudalism?
300
The monk who abhorred the opulence of the Renaissance and who preached against the luxurious, art-filled lifestyle of Medici Florence and held the Bonfire of the Vanities.
What is Savonarola?
300
The catchy mnemonic device used to help remember the fates of King Henry VIII's wives.
What is "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived?"
300
The factors contributing to the Great Dying that was experienced by Native American populations upon the arrival of Europeans in the "New World."
What are diseases, foreign microorganisms, and immunity?
300
The last Moorish (Islamic) Caliphate in Spain that was conquered by the Catholic Kings in 1492.
What is Granada?
400
The philosophy named after Cicero's term for what distinguishes us from other animals. Basis for Renaissance thought.
What is Humanism?
400
One manifestation of the Church's corruption; materializing salvation to sell at a profit...
What are indulgences?
400
Where Columbus thought he landed; where he landed.
What is China; San Salvador/Cuba.
400
The year that the inquisition was formally declared by the the Catholic Kings with the approval of the Pope.
What is 1478?
500
The monumental cathedral that solidified the Medici family's influence in Athens, finished by architech Filipo Brunelleschi.
What is Santa Maria del Fiore or el Duomo?
500
Gave birth to Elizabeth 1 but was accused of incest and adultery and beheaded, truly because she could bear no more viable children.
Who is Anne Boleyn?
500
The major diseases that contributed to the Great Dying? (Name 2 for credit.)
What are TB, influenza, measles, small pox and typhus.
500
The two kingdoms that the marriage of Isabel and Ferdinand united.