Renaissance Ideas
Name that Humanist
Artists and Thinkers
Reformation ideas
Reformation People and Events
First Wave Colonization
100
"Renaissance" means rebirth of this.
What is humanism or classicism (revival of values of Ancient Greece and Rome)?
100
His pietà (Madonna and Jesus) statue in St Peter's Basilica shows the adult Jesus being held by Mary after he was taken down from the cross.
Who is Michelangelo?
100
Raphael's painting with THIS TITLE, depicts ancient Greek and Roman scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers. While the painting is in the Vatican's signature room, it is an ode to humanism and classicism unlike any other. The two central figures are a key to the title.
What is the School of Athens?
100
The Catholic Church sold these passports from Purgatory in order to support their lust for ornate art.
What are indulgences?
100
Martin Luther may or may not have tacked THIS DOCUMENT onto the door of a church, sparking the Protestant Reformation. It argued against indulgences.
What is the 95 Theses?
100
These two European COUNTRIES dominated the colonization efforts Central and South America.
What are Spain and Portugal?
200
The "High Renaissance" happened in THIS CITY? because the Catholic Popes supported artists like Michelangelo to build and decorate their churches.
What is Rome?
200
This quintessential "Renaissance Man" was a painter, sculptor, scientist, architect, military engineer, inventor and philosopher. He's famous for the Mona Lisa and drawing the helicopter.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
200
He said this: "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." He wrote this to educate the Medici family on leadership.
Who is Machiavelli?
200
This is the idea that any person can preach and interpret the Holy Scriptures. Lutherans liked this idea.
What is Priesthood of All Believers?
200
Calvin formed a religious state in THIS SWISS CITY, abolishing drinking and dancing the Virolette in his austere "Calvinist Ordinances". He used the Consistory in THIS CITY as a morality police to enforce his laws.
What is Geneva?
200
This Aztec/Mexica LEADER was eventually conquered by Cortez who worked with local groups who were already fighting him.
Who was Moctezuma?
300
The Catholic Church and these people were the major patrons of the Renaissance.
Who are noble elites like the Medici family?
300
He wrote in the Oration on the Dignity of Man and is the father of the Liberal Arts: "These studies were liberal because they make man free…because they perfect man…those studies by which we attain and practice virtue and wisdom". He also expounded on the Great Chain of Being.
Who is Pico Della Mirandola?
300
The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by THIS PAINTER, is indicative of complex iconography (the green dress, the dog, the mirror) along with wonky "intuitive" perspective that is characteristic of the northern Renaissance. And he signed his name saying he was there!
Who is Jan van Eyck?
300
This is when a church/parish does not have a priest, because the priest assigned has to attend to multiple churches at the same time.
What is absenteeism?
300
This GROUP of French Calvinists infiltrated the French nobility which led to the French Wars of Religion.
Who are the Huguenots?
300
This indigenous GROUP of people lived on Hispaniola (Haiti and the DR) when Columbus arrived.
Who are the Taino?
400
The new focus on classical literature and ancient texts, along with secularism, individualism, and art that celebrated the glory of the human body are all part of THIS RENAISSANCE IDEOLOGY. People like Petrarch promoted THIS IDEOLOGY.
What is humanism?
400
His History of the Florentine People, has been called the first modern history book. While it probably was not his intention to secularize history, the three period view of history is unquestionably secular and for that he has been called the first modern historian.
Who is Leonardo Bruni?
400
This northern Renaissance (Dutch/Flemish) artist painted village scenes of peasant life showing commoners but also he inserted mountains (that don't exist in the Netherlands).
Who was Pieter Bruegel the Elder?
400
This is the Calvinist idea that all souls are either innately good or bad and will go to Heaven or Hell.
What is predestination?
400
This French TREATY mandated that Catholic churches had to be in every French town, and it allowed for French protestants to practice in some areaS, but not Paris. It also ended the French Wars of Religion.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
400
This is a contract granted by the Spanish crown to an individual or company allowing the holder exclusive rights in the slave trade with Spain's American colonies; it constituted the principal legal means of supplying slaves to Spanish America.
What is asiento?
500
This INVENTION by THIS MAN challenged the institutional powers of universities and the Catholic Church. It helped education shift from theology to a focus on classical texts and also led to more widespread literacy and scientific inquiry. It also helped promote the Protestant Reformation. Give both the invention and the inventor.
What is Guttenberg's Printing Press?
500
His foundling hospital was quintessentially humanist in its purpose and design. He also was the architect of the Florentine Duomo (cathedral).
Who was Brunelleschi?
500
This author of the Book of the Courtier, who is often seen as the antithesis of Machiavelli, said this: “Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.”
Who is Castiglione?
500
This is the Catholic belief that the eucharist (host/bread) and wine shared in a mass are the actual "body" and "blood" of Jesus.
What is transubstantiation?
500
Christian humanists like Erasmus probably rejoiced at THIS MEETING, which marked the Catholic Counter Reformation. At it, Catholics finally abolished indulgences, among other things.
What is the Council of Trent?
500
Globalization and the development of the Third World are direct results of THIS PHENOMENA from the first wave of European colonization.
What is the Columbian Exchange?