Italian Renaissance
Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper....also sketched many modern day inventions.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This Italian Ren. inventor developed the printing press.
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
He was a leader in the Scientific Rev. who developed the significance of the Scientific Method.
Who was Francis Bacon?
Italian Ren. city that produces glass and had many canals.
What is Venice?
Greek city-state that introduced democracy to the ancient world?
What was Athens?
Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the statue of David.
Who was Michelangelo?
This N. Ren author was a Dutch priest who spoke out against the Catholic Church in a book entitled The Praise of Folly.
Who was Desiderius Erasmus?
Supported the "helio-centric" theory.
Who was Nicholas Copernicus?
Northern Ren. country where the printing press was created.
What is Germany?
The place where a form of Roman entertainment that featured "horse-racing" where people risked their lives for the glory of a racing championship took place.
What was the Circus Maximus?
Wrote poetry in Italian for the common people.
Who was Dante Alighieri?
Northern Ren. writer/activist who spoke out against King Henry VIII and wrote Utopia about an ideal society.
Who was Thomas More?
He charted the position of stars and studied a "supernova."
Who was Tycho Brahe?
Italian Ren. city where banking began and textiles were produced.
What is Florence?
Charlemagne was the leader of this particular empire.
What was the "Holy Roman" Empire?
Wrote a book called The Prince..."better to be feared than loved."
Who was Niccolo Machiavelli?
N. Ren. artists/illustrator who studied anatomy to make his paintings more realistic.
Who was Albrecht Durer?
Observed that planets moved in orbits around the sun and used the telescope to help prove the "helio-centric" theory.
Who was Johannes Kepler?
North African city that used "war" elephants.
What was Carthage?
Name of the public speaker of the Roman Senate?
Who was Cicero?
This famous Italian Ren. painter was hired by the pope while Michelangelo was completing the Sistine Chapel.
Who was Raphael?
Famous Northern Ren. playwright/poet/author/linguist, who created the Globe theater.
Who was William Shakespeare?
He invented the laws of gravity and motion.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
City where the capital of the Roman Empire was moved and the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What was Constantinople?
Leader of the Mongolian "golden" horde?
Who was Batu?