The selling of these led to the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation.
What are indulgences?
100
This document led to the explosion of Protestantism across Europe.
What are the 95 Theses?
100
This philosophy stated that human beings, through education, are capable of growth and can improve themselves and the world around them through questioning.
What is humanism?
100
FLASHBACK: This artifact provided the key to translating Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
He created the Church of England so he could marry Anne Boleyn.
Who is Henry VIII?
200
This was the period when astronomers clashed with the Church and observations of the world contradicted Biblical teachings.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
200
These are the two theories for how our solar system is set up.
What are heliocentric and geocentric?
200
TWO PARTER: This book, written by him, is famous for arguing that “the ends justify the means”.
What is The Prince by Machiavelli?
200
CURRENT EVENTS: Voters in Los Angeles decided to raise this to $15.
What is the minimum wage?
300
He invented Europe’s first moveable-type printing press.
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
300
This is the term for a religious group that breaks off from an established group.
What is a sect?
300
This term means to cancel a marriage completely, more than just a divorce.
What is annul?
300
His observations of the moon and Jupiter landed him in house arrest.
Who is Galileo?
300
FLASHBACK: This term refers to the moving of water through canals and other means for agricultural purposes.
What is irrigation?
400
They are the four most famous artists from the Italian Renaissance.
Who are da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello?
400
This innovation allowed Renaissance artists to paint much more realistically.
What is perspective?
400
This is a teaching of Calvinism which states that God has already chosen who will be saved.
What is predestination?
400
Faced with a question he couldn’t answer, Isaac Newton invented this field of study.
What is calculus?
400
CURRENT EVENTS: This U.S. state saw a massive battle this week between rival biker gangs that left 9 dead and over a dozen injured.
What is Texas?
500
She settled the battle between Protestants and Catholics in England.
Who is Elizabeth I?
500
Newton and da Vinci were both interested in this field, the study of light.
What is optics?
500
This is the term for the Church’s response to the rise of Protestantism.
What is the Counter-Reformation?
500
Give three reasons why Italy was the center of the Renaissance.
1. HQ of Catholic Church
2. Center of classical Greco-Roman culture
3. Mediterranean trade
500
FLASHBACK: This two-word term refers to the Golden Age of Genghis Khan’s empire.