The Renaissance
The artist who painted the "Mona Lisa."
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The person who nailed the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg
Who is Martin Luther?
A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
What is the scientific method?
The period that occurred before the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, and Scientific Revolution.
What are the Middle Ages?
Mr. Vaughan's favorite superhero.
Who is Batman?
This Italian city-state was the center of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
The amount of theses Martin Luther wrote against the Catholic Church.
What is 95?
The scientist who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
By 1517, a majority of Europeans followed this religion.
What is Catholicism?
The sports that Mr. Vaughan coaches.
What are basketball and track?
An intellectual movement that focused more on human potential and achievements.
What is humanism?
The year that the Protestant Reformation started.
When is 1517?
The physicist who determined that "an object in motion stays in motion."
Who is Isaac Newton?
The philosopher who originally proposed the geocentric theory that placed the Earth at the center of the universe.
Who is Aristotle?
The two other specific courses that Mr. Vaughan is teaching this year in addition to World History.
What are English 10 and Human Geography?
The playwright who wrote "Hamlet."
Who is William Shakespeare?
The fee a person would pay to the church to forgive their sins and make their way into heaven.
What are indulgences?
The Italian scientist credited with improving the telescope and making significant astronomical observations.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
The Renaissance sought to bring back the culture of these two classical histories.
What are Greek and Roman?
Mr. Vaughan's favorite WNBA team.
Who is the Seattle Storm?
The invention that allowed for the rapid spread of Renaissance ideas and knowledge.
What is the printing press?
The text that Martin Luther translated into German, making it accessible to the common people.
What is the Bible?
The scientific area that Andreas Vesalius focused on in the 1500s.
What is anatomy (or the human body)?
The intellectual movement that comes next in the 17th century emphasizes reason, science, and skepticism of traditional beliefs.
What is the Enlightenment?
The original due date of Mr. Vaughan's upcoming baby.
When is May 7th?