Renaissance Ideas
This city became wealthy through banking and is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
Leonardo da Vinci was from this country.
What is Italy?
The new branch of Christianity that emerged from the Reformation.
What is Protestantism?
This explorer reached the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This idea states that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
What is heliocentrism?
This idea philsophy placed humans, rather than religion alone, at the centre of study and learning.
What is humanism?
This famous Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This German monk challenged the Catholic Church in 1517, with a famous document of 95 Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
This colonial power established sugar plantations in Brazil and made it the center of its South American empire.
What is Portugal?
This Polish astronomer proposed the heliocentric model.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This political writer authored The Prince.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
This famous painting by da Vinci depicts Jesus eating with his disciples.
What is The Last Supper?
This English king broke away from the authority of the pope.
Who is Henry VIII?
This Portuguese explorer sailed around the southern tip of Africa to reach India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This English scientist developed the laws of motion and gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
These two ancient civilizations inspired Renaissance humanists.
What are Ancient Greece and Rome?
This Renaissance artist painted the School of Athens.
Who is Raphael?
This controversial Catholic Church practice involved forgiving sins in exchange for payments made to the Church.
What are indulgences?
European colonists grew crops for sale and export. Alongside sugar and tobacco, this fiber-producing plant became especially important for making clothing.
What is cotton?
This branch of science was transformed when Andreas Vesalius published detailed studies of the human body based on dissections.
What is anatomy?
Two reasons why the Renaissance began in Italy.
Wealth from trade/banking; powerful city states; Roman heritage; wealthy patrons.
The technique Renaissance artists used to create the illusion of depth.
What is perspective?
This 1555 Agreement allowed rulers in the Holy roman Empire to choose between Catholicism and Lutheranism for their territories.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
This movement of crops, animals, diseases, and people transformed societies on both sides of the Atlantic.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Johannes Kepler used mathematics to show that planets move around the Sun in this shape, rather than perfect circles.
What are ellipses?