This famous artist painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
A series of Holy Wars fought between Christians and Muslims over the Holy Sites of Israel.
What were the Crusades?
100
This city gets credit for being the place where the Renaissance began.
What is Florence, Italy?
100
This man was England's national poet and is considered one of the greatest writers in world history. He is also known as the "Bard of Avon".
Who was William Shakespeare?
100
This means "rebirth".
What is renaissance?
200
This was the famous artist that painted the inside of the Sistine Chapel.
Who was Michelangelo?
200
This killed over over 1/3 of Europe in three years (1347-1350).
What was the Bubonic Plague?
200
This Bank, located in Florence, Italy was the largest, most prosperous, and one of the most respected institutions in Europe.
What was The Medici Bank?
200
In 1455, this book was published by the inventor of the printing press and was his major work.
What is the Gutenberg Bible?
200
This is a professional poet employed by a patron.
What is a bard?
300
This Polish man was a genius in astronomy. He is the first person to hypothesize that the Earth is not the center of the universe, but said the sun is the center.
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
300
"Black Death" spread quickly throughout Europe by this way.
What are fleas riding on the backs of rats?
300
This country had a strong tradition of music and literature (in both drama and poetry).
What is England?
300
The greater availability of books prompted an increased desire for learning and the rise in this throughout Europe.
What is literacy
300
This is an intellectual movement that focused on cultural and educational reform started by scholars, writers, and civic leaders during the Renaissance.
What is humanism?
400
He was an Englishman who advanced the fields of modern science with the Scientific Method.
Who was Sir Francis Bacon?
400
This was a positive that came out of The Crusades, despite them otherwise being a complete failure.
What were trade routes established by European kingdoms with the Asian Islamic Lands?
400
Brunelleschi created the dome on this place, which helped propel the great architectural marvels during the Renaissance.
What is the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore? (Saint Mary of Florence)
400
Dante wrote this, which is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
What is The Divine Comedy?
400
This is the process by which a cultural trait, a material object, or a behavior pattern is spread from one society to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
This diplomat, archbishop, and writer was executed by King Henry VIII; later to become a Saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
Who was Thomas More?
500
The Europeans are going to learn many things from the Muslims during the Crusades such as ______, _____ ____, and ____.
What are algebra, advanced astronomy, and gunpowder?
500
The Ottoman Turks captured this capital city bringing an end to the thousand year Byzantine Empire.
What was Constantinople?
500
This was Thomas More's most famous work.
What is Utopia?
500
This is a theory that asserts knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience. In other words, all theories must be tested through experiments rather than resting solely on reasoning.