Renaissance
This was a Renaissance artist known for his sculptures and painting the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This was a French reformer who preached about the priesthood of all believers, that the Eucharist was merely symbolic, and that God predestined people to heaven or hell before they were born.
Who is John Calvin?
These two philosophers are responsible for forming the modern scientific method.
Who are Descartes and Bacon?
This is where the Dutch focused their colonial efforts.
Where are the Dutch East Indies and New Netherland?
This is a technique developed by Renaissance artists to better illustrate distance and depth in their artwork.
What is persepctive?
This is someone who supports artists and their work financially.
What is a patron?
These were early heretics who sought to reform the Church without leaving it. (there are 2)
Who are John Wycliffe and Erasmus?
This scientist proposed the theory of universal gravitation.
Who is Issac Newton?
This person used their status and wealth in the government to support exploration by creating schools for navigators, shipbuilders, and cartographers.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
This was the near 75 year period of time that the Popes did not live in Rome.
What is the Avignon Papacy?
This was a way of thought that focused on human beings and their potential for achievement.
What is humanism?
This is how the Great Schism weakened the Church.
What is it created confusion and doubt among the faithful?
These inventions during the 1600s and 1700s made scientific investigation easier.
What are the thermometer, barometer and microscope?
This is the reason Portugal and Spain were looking for a sea route to Asia.
What is to get around Italian and Muslim merchants?
This was a wealthy and influential Italian banking family that were patrons for many Renaissance artists.
Who are the Medicis?
This was a consequence of Dante Alighieri writing the Divine Comedy in Italian.
What is more writers began writing in the vernacular?
This was a German reformer who preached against the sale of indulgences and taught that scripture is the sole source of religious truth, and men are saved by faith alone.
Who is Martin Luther?
This astronomer was the first to challenge the long established geocentric theory of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This was the Treaty given by the Pope that drew an imaginary line north and south to divide Portuguese and Spanish lands.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This is the written work that Martin Luther nailed to the post to debate with Catholic leaders.
What are the 95 Theses?
The works of Shakespeare demonstrate this.
What is a deep understanding of human nature?
This is the number of religious wars fought in France during the 1500’s.
What is 8 wars of religion?
This is how scientific rationalism influenced political thinkers.
What is scientific rationalism encouraged people to think for themselves?
This is an economic policy that works on the belief that a nation’s power depends on its wealth and is closely tied to colonialism.
What is mercantilism?
This was the Italian explorer who was the first to suggest that the land in the west was actually a new continent.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?