Vocabulary
A financial supporter
Why was Italy the birthplace of the Renaissance?
Italy was the center of the Roman empire and because of its location was a favored trade spot to Mediterranean people
How had the printing revolution begun?
The development of the printing press
According the the Catholic Church, was a lessening of the time a soul would have to spend in purgatory
Indulgence
a sun-centered model of the universe
heliocentric
Branch of mathematics partially developed by Newton & used to explain his laws
Calculus
Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Was also a genius genius, scientist, musician, and architect
Leonardo da Vinci
Other writers wrote in the everyday language known as.....
Vernacular
Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation by nailing what on the door in Wittenberg
95 Theses
what is a possible explanation?
a hypothesis
Step-by-step process of discovery
Scientific Method
A sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, and poet. Sculpted the David and Pieta
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Pushed for Utopia or an ideal society where men and women live in peace and harmony
Thomas More
Who presented the idea of predestination
John Calvin
Presented the heliocentric universe
Nicolaus Copernicus
Only surviving child of Henry VIII & his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon
Mary Tudor
Developed the art style of a mix between Christian and Classical style. Painted The School of Athens
The towering Renaissance English poet and playwright
William Shakespeare
Broke ties with the Catholic Church because he couldn't get a divorce
Henry VIII
The force Isaac Newton described when an apple fell from a tree is called.....
gravity
Separate quarter of the city
Ghetto
Why were Italy's city-states so vibrant and rich?
They were ruled by a powerful family and the social classes were dominated by wealthy and powerful merchants
Used his knowledge of classical languages to produce a new Greek edition of the Bible
Archbishop of the new church of England that annulled Henry VIII's marriage
Thomas Cranmer
assembled an astronomical telescope, observed that the four moons of Jupiter move slowly around it, and realized Earth moves around the sun
Galileo Galilei