Renaissance
Religions
Scientific Revolution
Reformation &
Counter-Reformation
Counter-Reformation
People
100
The Renaissance began here.
What is Florence, Italy?
100
The sacred religious text of Judaism.
What is the Torah?
100
This was discovered by Issac Newton and explained through calculus.
What is Gravity?
100
The Catholic Church was widely criticized for selling these as pardons for sin.
What are indulgences?
100
This person helped work in response to the reformation by creating the Jesuits.
Who is Ignatious of Loyola?
200
Renaissance thinking drew heavily upon the ideas from these two civilizations.
What are Greece and Rome?
200
A religion that is polytheistic, and has no known founder.
What is Hinduism?
200
A belief that the earth orbits the sun.
What is Heliocentrism?
200
This large group played a central role in the counter reformation and were largely a response to the Inquisition.
Who are the Jesuits (Society of Jesus)?
200
King Henry VIII did this in response to not being able to annul his marriage.
What is broke the Anglican Church away from the Catholic Church?
300
Economic prosperity created the conditions in which merchants and religious figures could pay for the arts. What were these people known as?
What are Patrons of the Arts?
300
This religion includes belief in Nirvana and the Eightfold Path.
What is Buddhism?
300
A person who contradicted the Church's teaching.
What is a heretic?
300
This was a religious doctrine created by Martin Luther that stated a person's only hope for salvation is faith in God.
What is "Justification by faith alone"?
300
This person wrote this book that said, "It is better to be feared than loved" and "the ends justify the means".
Who is Machiavelli and what is "The Prince"?
400
This specific group of wealthy merchants helped begin the Renaissance by patronizing the arts.
Who are the Medici family?
400
The Five Pillars of Islam include:
1. Hajj
2. Ramadan
3. ?
4. Prayer 5 times a day
5. Declaration of Faith to Allah
What is Charity to the poor (Alms)?
400
This person was put on house arrest for his support of Nicholas Copernicus' theory of Heliocentrism.
Who is Galileo?
400
The belief that God determines the fate of every person. Created by John Calvin.
What is Predestination?
400
This Queen tried to return England to Catholicism during her reign.
Who is Queen Mary I?
500
A major theme of the Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects and people's achievements.
What is Humanism?
500
This text shares beliefs about Karma, Dharma, and Brahman as well as a strict caste system.
What is Vedas?
500
This person created a system for creating experiments and hypothesis and tracking the results.
Francis Bacon
500
A secret court held by the Church that persecuted people based on their potential heresy.
What is the Inquisition?
500
This Christian Humanist wrote "The Praise of Folly", and translated the bible from Latin to Greek.
Who is Erasmus?