Renaissance
"Classicism" in Humanism refers to the rediscovery of these ancient "classical" cultures.
What are Greek and Roman?
This artist painted the famous "Mona Lisa" painting.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The language the Bible was written in before the Reformation.
What is Latin?
He proved the elliptical orbit of planets and was excommunicated from the Lutheran Church because he believed the moon was a solid body.
Who is Johann Kepler?
An instrument using a magnet to determine their exact direction.
What is the magnetic compass?
These people gained wealth through industries like wool processing, shipbuilding, and banking.
What are Merchants?
Proportion and balance in artwork.
What is Symmetry?
The language that Luther translated the Bible into.
What is German?
Was placed under house arrest because he supported the theory that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun.
Who is Galileo?
A triangular sail allowing ships to almost sail into the wind and zig zag at an angle.
What is a Lateen Sail?
This group consisted of artisans and shopkeepers.
What are Tradesmen?
Artists in this part of Europe painted scenes of everyday life rather than religious scenes.
What is Northern Europe?
The buying and selling of positions in the church.
What is simony?
His invention of a press using moveable type changed history.
Who is Guttenburg?
The first explorer to sail around Africa to reach India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Although the Renaissance began in northern Italy, this city remained the center of the church.
What is Rome?
Emphasis on this world (the here and now) rather than the afterlife or spiritual world.
What is Secularism?
Saying that you no longer hold an opinion or belief.
What it Recant?
He is credited with the development of the Scientific Method, using experimentation and observation to prove or disprove a hypothesis.
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
He explored the waters of North America in search of a Northwest Passage and has a large bay and river named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The Renaissance took place during these two centuries.
What are the 15th and 16th centuries?
These TWO artists were known as "Renaissance Men" because they were also writers and scientists/mathematicians.
Who are Michelangelo and Da Vinci?
The town in Germany where Luther posted his ideas.
What is Wittenburg?
The ideas of individual human rights were used when writing this founding document of the United States.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This route of the Triangle Trade, cruelly brought people captured in Africa to work as slaves in the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?