The Power of Science
Ideas and Inventions
Religious Renaissance
Various Vocabulary
Italian Ideas
Many Important People
100

What force of nature did Isaac Newton measure?


Gravity

100

What is a type of government where the people elect leaders to make laws?


Republic

100

Most European universities started as schools of ____________


Theology

100

A playwright produces what type of work?


Plays

100

What other important civilization started in Italy?


Roman Empire

100

What group was mostly unable to participate in the Renaissance?


Women

200

Where were scholars able to meet and find protection from the Catholic Church?


Universities

200

Where was the printing press developed before Europe?


China

200

What does secular mean?

Not religious

200

What does the word “Renaissance” mean?


“rebirth”

200

Italian scholars began studying __________ and _____________ works after receiving them from Muslim scholars


Greek and Roman

200

Francis Bacon is responsible for what method of understanding the world around us?


The Scientific Method

300

What do the parts of the word geocentric mean? (geo and centric)


Geo – Earth

Centric – In the center

300

Whose stories made Europeans want Chinese goods?


Marco Polo

300

What would you study to receive a degree in theology?


Religion and God

300

What invention did Johannes Gutenberg bring to Europe?


Movable-type printing press

300

How is travel in Venice different than in other cities?


Roads were all canals

300

How did we learn most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci’s work?


His notebooks

400

Explain the heliocentric theory of the universe


Theory that the Sun is the center of the universe

400

What literary technique uses humor or irony to criticize others’ shortcomings?


Satire

400

Who preserved Greek works after Europeans lost them?


Muslim scholars

400

What is a word for someone who gives financial support to a project or cause?


Patron

400

What two events allowed Italian merchants to trade Asian and Arabic goods?


Crusades and Mongol conquests

400

How did Lorenzo de’ Medici earn the nickname “Lorenzo the Magnificent”?


Supporting artists

500

What is one tool that Galileo invented or improved?


Thermometer, barometer, telescope, microscope, clock

500

What two Chinese inventions allowed ideas to spread more quickly in Europe?


Movable-type printing press

Paper

500

Scholasticism is the idea that ________ and ____________ can work together


Faith and reason

500

Humanism is the belief in the worth of what?


Individual humans

500

What was one obstacle stopping Italy from uniting into one country?


Italians did not want emperors or kings ruling them

The Catholic Church did not want a united Italy

Rivalries between city states made cooperation difficult

500

What is one modern invention that Leonardo da Vinci wrote about?


Helicopter, parachute, tank

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