Rebirth
The French origin name for the time period when Europe came out of medieval times.
What is the Renaissance?
This person was responsible for many Christians breaking away from the Catholic Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
Who is Copernicus?
This was the term for a belief system that emphasized things like the importance of the individual and studying literature.
What is humanism?
During this time period, some people were investigated, tortured, and punished for dissenting from Catholicism.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
Johannes Gutenberg was able to help knowledge spread quickly and more cheaply by inventing the:
What is the printing press?
I was the Renaissance artist famous for the sculpture called David.
Who is Michelangelo?
I was responsible for punishing those who protested against the Catholic Church.
Who is Tomas de Torquemada?
Were it not for these two developing sciences, explorers would not have been able to travel around the world.
What is astronomy and mathematics?
Before the Renaissance, this group had nearly total power of the lives of Europeans.
Who is the Catholic Church?
These were nailed on the door of a Catholic Church listing all of the corruption of the medieval Catholic Church.
What are the 95 Theses?
This group of people had preserved and further developed classical Greek and Roman mathematics, philosophy, science, and art when the Europeans were in their Dark Ages.
Who are the Muslims?
One of the reasons that Europe underwent a "rebirth" is because European thinkers rediscovered the culture and writings of these people.
Who are the Greeks and Romans?
The Renaissance led to the decline in the power of the church and rise in the ideas of this philosophy?
What is humanism?
The person who most exemplifies the spirit of the Renaissance because he was an artist, an inventor, a builder and a thinker.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci, the original Renaissance man!