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Vocabulary
The Enlightenment
100
This city in Italy is known as the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence
100
This piece by Rafael depicts many classical characters from Greece and Rome
What is "School of Athens"
100
A young monk who challenged the Roman Catholic Church, was upset by the Church's sale of indulgences, and argued that the Pope could not decide what a person had to do to get into heaven.
Who is Martin Luther
100
A period during the 1700s in which educated Europeans came to believe that scientific thinking and reason was a "light" which revealed error and showed the way to truth
What is the age of enlightenment
100
Enlightenment thinkers believed that human beings are born with fundamental, basic rights. These three main points were known as "natural rights"
The right to life, liberty, and property
200
This other city in Italy was a very important trade center and quickly became known as the wealthiest city of the Renaissance
What is Venice
200
This Renaissance-era invention aided the spread of ideas
What is the printing press
200
A reformation thinker who held the belief of predestination, meaning that no matter what people do, the outcome of their life is already planned, God has already decided who will go to heaven and who will not.
Who is John Calvin
200
Relating to earthly life rather than to religion or spiritual matters
What is secular
200
One enlightenment idea- where citizens give up some freedom that they would have in a state of nature, and in exchange the government protects citizens' right to life, liberty, and property.
What is the "social contract"
300
This man was a merchant and explorer from the city of Venice, who in the 1720s who is best known for his Journey to China
Who is Marco Polo
300
These were arguably the four most important artists from the Italian Renaissance
Who are: Rafael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo DaVinci
300
This King of England ruled from 1509 to 1547. Because he wanted to have his marriage annulled, he was excommunicated from the church and created the Church of England OR the Anglican Church
Who is Henry VIII
300
This is a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested; developed during the renaissance
What is the scientific method
300
This idea says that governments had a responsibility to hold up their end of the social contract. If a government fails, then citizens would no longer agree to be governed.
What is the "consent of the governed"
400
A florentine banking family who was were arguably the most important players in the rebirth of art and culture
Who are the Medicis
400
Renaissance Painters used this, to make their work look three-dimensional
What is Perspective
400
In the 1500's the pope needed money to repair the church of St. Peter's in Rome. To get that money, he decided to sell these, which reduced the church's punishment for a sin
What are indulgences
400
any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate
What is humanism
400
The equivalent to the state of nature, meaning without authority or government.
What is "anarchy"
500
This man was an Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author who claimed that people were greedy and self-centered, arguing that rulers should not try to be good, but rather do whatever necessary to keep power and protect their city.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli
500
This man is considered to be the greatest English writer of the Renaissance, and his work still remains very popular around the world.
Who is William Shakespeare
500
This monarch, often known by a nickname, restored the Catholic Church in England and punished the Protestants that opposed her. Her half-sister restored the Anglican Church when she took the throne
Who is Mary I or "Bloody Mary"
500
the name given by Europeans to the Americas which were unknown in Europe before the voyages of Christopher Columbus
What is the New World
500
Name one famous enlightenment Thinker
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