Inventions
An invention by this man resulted in more people learning how to read.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
These queens of Spain and England both supported exploration.
Who are Queen Isabella I and Queen Elizabeth I?
Both Renaissance and medieval sculpture often featured figures from this book.
What is the Bible?
Acquiring spices for cooking was a main motivation for Europeans to travel to this continent.
What is Asia?
This English Renaissance writer is best known for his plays.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This chapel's ceiling features a work of art by Michelangelo.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
Priests of this church did not have to obey the king, which led to strife with monarchy.
What is the Catholic Church?
Copernicus wrote that this planet moved around the sun, in direct contradiction of the Catholic Church's teachings.
What is the Earth?
Lines of latitude and longitude are useful to know for this field of study.
What is cartography?
The Catholic Church prior to the reformation held mass in this language.
What is Latin?
As opposed to the geocentric model of the solar system, the heliocentric model claims that the Earth does this.
What is orbit around the sun?
This monarch started the Church of England because he did not want to share power with Catholic leaders.
Who is Henry VIII?
Jewish people and Protestants were likely to be arrested by this church body.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
This product was brought back to Europe from Africa by Portuguese explorers.
What is gold?
This humorous work by Miguel de Cervantes is sometimes considered the first true European novel.
What is Don Quixote?
Who is Kepler?
In this form of government, a monarch is limited by basic laws.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
Teresa of Avila and Ignatius of Loyola both founded different kinds of these.
What are religious orders?
This family controlled Florence for almost 300 years.
Who are the Medicis?
This is the language in which a Lutheran church service would be given.
What is German?
A strait is named for this explorer, who with his crew was the first to sail around the tip of South America.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The Reformation strengthened the power of monarchy by making rulers more independent of this church leader.
Who is the pope?
John Wycliffe and several other reformers believed this was the source of religious authority.
What is the Bible?
This city is known as the "cradle of the Renaissance."
What is Florence?
According to John Locke's social contract, agreement among free people gives this its authority.
What is the government?