Who Rules the World?
The rulers that united Spain and drove out the Moors
Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon.
Florentine painter, sculptor, scientist, engineer, and philosopher
Leonardo da Vinci
____________ was the Italian explorer who sailed to the Americas for Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain in 1492 and discovered the modern-day Bahama Islands, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Venezuela, and Honduras.
Christopher Columbus
To give up one’s throne is known as…
Abdicate
Members of the Florentine _________ family were famous patrons of the arts and exerted great political influence throughout the Renaissance, even supplying two popes.
Medici
Queen of England who executed many Protestants in an effort to restore Catholicism to England
Mary I
Painter from Venice
Michelangelo
The Spanish explorer after whom America was erroneously named after was...
Amerigo Vespucci
The term meaning “relating to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs” is…
Temporal
The war between France and England over the right to rule France
Hundred Years War
__________ split England from the Holy Roman Empire, creating Church of England.
Henry VIII
The Painter, Raphael, was from where?
Rome
__________ an Italian explorer who sailed for King Henry VII of England, Cabot attempted to find a western route to India but instead landed in North America (in Newfoundland) in 1497.
John Cabot
When the Catholic Church declares that a marriage never validly existed, leaving both parties free to marry others
Annul
The first four famous European printing presses were in
Westminster, Basel, Venice, and Antwerp.
The Ruler of the largest Spanish empire in history
Philip II
Painter in Europe; famous for the printing of a Latin Bible in 1450
Johann Gutenberg
______________ the Portuguese explorer who first sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in 1486
Bartholomew Diaz
This term refers to “a model of the universe or solar system that proposes the Earth at the center, with other heavenly bodies orbiting around the Earth”
Geocentric
The humanist scholar and chancellor of England who was executed for his refusal to agree to the Act of Supremacy
Thomas More
The King of France who continued the Italian wars of his predecessor; his reign saw great internal peace and prosperity.
Louis XII
German who Painted Henry VIII and many of his court
Hans Holbein
A Portuguese explorer who lead the expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the globe, although he died before finishing the journey himself in a fight with native Filipinos
Ferdinand Magellan
The district or office of bishop is known as
see
The Italian astronomer who used the newly invented telescope to discover many details about space.
Galileo Galilei