Notable Peeps
This figure is credited as the most influential figure in the protestant reformation:
Who is Martin Luther?
What characteristic does an effective ruler have to possess in the opinion of Niccolò Machiavelli?
What is ruthlessness/ fear?
This term is Italian for rebirth and describes a period of renewed interest in arts, literature, and education:
What is the Renaissance?
A series of interconnected trade routes that stretched from East Asia to the Mediterranian:
What is the Silk Road?
Martin Luther protested the practices of selling these, essentially "buying salvation" and opted instead for the belief that only faith saved
What are indulgences?
This man split England from the Catholic church in 1534 over a marital dispute between himself and Pope Clement VII:
Who is Henry VIII?
Name one reason Italy became the center of the Renaissance.
What is (answers may vary) geographic location, trade, city states... etc
This term means to focus on one's needs, desires, and talents as an individual:
What is Humanism?
This religion spread east from India along the silk road to other countries such as China and, eventually, Japan:
What is Buddhism?
John Calvin believed that it was decided by God where your soul would go, even before birth. What is this called?
What is predestination?
This man painted the ceiling of the Sistine chapel and sculpted several notable statues including the 17ft tall statue of David:
Who is Michelangelo?
A wealthy individual who might pay for an artist to create a work for them.
What is a Patron?
This term means not related to religion, this could include everything from an idea to music and art:
What is Secular/ Secularism?
This man traveled the Silk Road for over 20 years collecting stories and trading ideas with Asian cultures:
Who is Marco Polo?
What is/ are the 95 theses?
This reformer took his beliefs to Switzerland and established a Theocracy in Geneva. His beliefs hit the reformation as a P.O.W.:
Who is John Calvin?
Roman ideals and documents were salvaged by scholars fleeing from this Empire eventually overtaken by the Ottoman Turks.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
This term describes the spread of ideas, beliefs, goods, and diseases across distances through human interaction:
What is cultural diffusion?
The Silk Road is directly related to the spread of this that killed as many as 200 million people in Europe over a 4 year span:
What is the Bubonic Plague (AKA the Black Death or Black Plague)
What contribution to the reformation is John Wycliff of England famous for having made?
What is translating the Bible to English?
The wealthiest and most notable Patron of the Italian Renaissance; supported Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci:
Who is Lorenzo de Medici?
This Author wrote the Divine Comedy that describes a fictional descent through the different levels of Hell.
Who is Dante Alighieri?
This period/ movement sought to change the practices of the Catholic church to include the interests and wellbeing of the common person while refocusing on spiritual affairs and not worldly ones:
What is the reformation?
These people, led by Genghis and Kublai Khan, strengthened trade along the Silk Road until the Ottoman Empire came to power in 1453:
Who are the Mongols?
The practice of having church services in the spoken language of the population (in the vernacular) was started by this man
Who is Jan Huss?