Who What Where When
the Latin translation of Renaissance
What is 'rebirth'
The movement of people away from the countryside into cities
What is urbanization?
The head of the Catholic Church
What is the Pope?
The inventor of the printing press
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
Define Humanism
The idea that human beings are important as well as God
The years the European Renaissance occurred during
What was 1350-1600 BCE?
The values and beliefs a person or group of people hold about what is important
What is worldview?
The King of England who married six wives and created his own religion
Who is King Henry VIII?
A type of paper made out of calf hide
What is vellum?
A famous playwright who made his characters extremely life like and realistic
Who is Shakespeare?
The three cities at the centre of the Italian Renaissance
Genoa, Venice, Florence
A series of six religious wars to recover Jerusalem
What were the Crusades?
Below nobility but above peasants on the feudal hierarchy
What are knights?
The first book to be printed on a printing press
What was the Gutenberg Bible?
The astronomer who realized Earth spins around the Sun, and not vice versa
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
The most famous 'Renaissance Man' + a definition of a Renaissance Man
Leonardo da Vinci, a man who is skilled in multiple areas of intelligence or skills
The study of God and religion
What is theology?
the percentage of Medieval Europe that were peasants
What was 85%?
The author of Utopia
Who is Sir Thomas More?
The effect humanism had on education
University attendance went up, inquiry was valued over memorization
During the Renaissance, this was at the centre of most people's worldview
What was God?
A journey by peasants or nobility to enhance their faith and visit holy relics
What is a pilgrimage?
The wealthy Florentine family that were patrons of the arts
Who were the Medici Family?
What is at least two of the classical languages scholars learned to read class works
What is Latin, Greek, and Hebrew?
Widely considered the father of humanism
Who is Petrarch?