People of the Renaissance
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100
This person was King Henry VIII's important advisor.
Who is Thomas More?
100
This tool made it easier for humanist ideas and Greek and Roman text to become more accessible for more people.
What is the printing press.?
100
This is the famous trade route that moved goods between Italy and places as far east as Japan.
What is the Silk Road?
100
In 1492 this explorer was the first person to travel west across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This artist painted the famous painting The Mona Lisa.
Who is da Vinci
200
This person is known as the Renaissance man.
Who is da Vinci?
200
This invention was a hand held instrument used for navigation.
What is a compass?
200
This is the country in which the Renaissance began.
What is Italy?
200
This explorer claimed the land along the St. Lawrence River for the King of France.
Who is Cartier?
200
These people held the lowest societal class in the Feudal System.
Who are peasants?
300
This person is best known for discovering and translating ancient classical Greek and Roman text.
Who is Petrarch?
300
This is the name for the art of creating a map.
What is cartography?
300
This is the city state in Italy which was named after a two headed god.
What is Genoa?
300
This famous explorer established the famous port city of Macau.
Who is Da Gama?
300
This writer wrote the plays Romeo and Juliet and King Lear.
Who is Shakespheare?
400
This famous painting was created by which Renaissance artist.
Who is da Vinci?
400
This person painted one of the world's greatest fresceos on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
400
This city became a major trading centre with the Islamic world during the middle ages.
What is Venice?
400
This explorer was funded by a group of English merchants to search for the Northwest Passage.
Who is Forbisher?
400
This person identified a theory indicating that the sun was the centre of the universe and refuting the earth as the centre of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
500
The carrack (boat) named Santa Maria was part of this famous explorer's fleet.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
500
This device was used to measure the location of the stars and planets, it was a navigation tool for explorers.
What is the astrolabe?
500
This is the name of the city state where the first European currency was introduced?
What is Florence?
500
This explore is the first European to reach the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Diaz?
500
These are the first four numbers in the Fibonacci sequence.
What are 1, 2, 3 and 5?