What Renaissance invention helped to spread ideas more quickly?
What is the printing press?
100
This period of history started when Martin Luther attempted to change the Catholic Church.
What is Reformation?
100
This diplomat believed that a ruler should keep power by any means necessary -- even if they had to lie, steal, or cheat.
Who was Machiavelli?
100
This was the list of problems Martin Luther nailed to the door of the Wittenberg church.
What is the 95 Theses?
100
He was called the "Renaissance Man" because he was an Italian scientist, artist, and inventor.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
200
Italian city-states became wealthy in the Renaissance through ___________.
What is trade?
200
Martin Luther taught that people needed to have ______________________ to get into heaven.
What is faith in Jesus?
200
Which king and queen held the Spanish Inquisition which was a court to try Jews and Muslims, to force them to become Catholic?
Who were King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
200
This word means to go against the church's teachings.
What is heresy?
200
This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He also sculpted a 17-foot statue of David!
Who is Michelangelo?
300
Renaissance philosophers studied the works of classical ______________ and Rome.
What is Greece?
300
John Calvin believed in ________________ which means that God plans the outcome of people's lives.
What is predestination?
300
This English monarch tried to convert England back to the Catholic Church after her father's death.
Who is Mary I?
300
This word means to focus on worldly things, not on heaven.
What is secular?
300
In 1632, the Roman Catholic Church condemned the ideas of this Italian scientist because he supported the findings of Copernicus.
Who is Galileo?
400
This theory states that the planets move in an elliptical path around the sun.
What is the heliocentric theory?
400
The __________________ churches were named after the protest of the Catholic church.
What is Protestant?
400
This king founded the Anglican Church (also called the Church of England)?
Who was Henry VIII?
400
During the Renaissance and Reformation periods, the idea of ______________ spread. This means that individuals and human ideas/reasoning were important.
What is humanism?
400
This Italian man traveled throughout China, worked for Kublai Khan, and wrote a book about his travels.
Who is Marco Polo?
500
This is the period of history characterized by a rebirth of art and learning.
What is Renaissance?
500
The Roman Catholic Church sold these, which reduced the church's punishment for sins.
What is indulgences?
500
This man is often called the best playwright in history. His works included political messages and comedies, such as Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing.
Who is William Shakespeare?
500
During the Renaissance, some literature was written in the ______________________ which means the common, everyday language of the people.
What is vernacular?
500
The humanist clergyman Erasmus wanted to write the Bible in vernacular so that _________________ would be able to read it.