A true Renaissance man, this genius was an artist, inventor and sculptor. The Mona Lisa was his most famous work.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
Wrote 37 plays, added more than 1,700 words to English language and helped to shape the concept of modern playwriting.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
A payment made to the church that would lessen the time a soul spent in purgatory.
What is an indulgence?
100
The man that started his county's own church because he disagreed with the Pope on divorce.
Who is King Henry VIII?
100
Theory that the sun is at the center of the universe.
What is the heliocentric model?
200
This Italian City State was at the center of the Renaissance. It was an important trading hub and attracted artists and thinkers from all over Europe.
What is Florence, Italy?
200
The man who brought the printing press and printing inks to the Western World.
Who is Johann Gutenberg
200
Man who wrote the 95 Theses and started the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
200
The daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who became the head of England in 1558.
What is Queen Elizabeth I?
200
Man who first proposed the heliocentric model.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
300
Renaissance intellectual movement that focused on classical culture and worldly subjects rather than religious issues. Emphasized that education could stimulate creative powers.
What is humanism?
300
Wrote Don Quixote, a tale that mocks romantic notions of medieval chivalry.
Who is Miguel de Cervantes?
300
A French priest with a logical, razor sharp mind that preached predestination and began the second Protestant sect.
Who is John Calvin?
300
To cancel a marriage.
What is annul?
300
Observed that the four moons of Jupiter had an orbit that verified Copernicus's heliocentric model. Was eventually tried before the Inquisition.
Who is Galileo?
400
Artist that painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the Stature of David.
Who is Michelangelo?
400
This man was the primary patron of Florence, Italy funding and supporting many of the artists and philosophers that came to his city.
Who is Lorenzo de Medici?
400
The Church was seen to be living a lavish lifestyle and sought secular power.
What is worldliness?
400
Pope Paul III called this board together to lead the Catholic Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
400
Man that developed the theory of gravity, laws of motion and developed the sciences of physics and calculus.
Who is Isaac Newton?
500
Former diplomat that wrote The Prince and is known as the father of modern politics.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
500
English humanist Thomas More's book that describes an ideal society in which men and women live in peace.
What is Utopia?
500
A government run by a church.
What is a theocracy?
500
Known as the Society of Jesus, this Catholic religious order fought against heresy and spread the Catholic Faith.
What are Jesuits?
500
Step-by-step process that uses a hypothesis, observation, experimentation and repetition to confirm findings.