This city was the centre of the Italian Renaissance.
What is Florence?
100
Europeans sought trade routes with this continent in the Age of Exploration.
What is Asia?
100
He is the perfect example of a "Renaissance Man".
Who is Leonardo da Vinci.
100
This man was the most important and powerful person in Medieval society.
Who is the king?
100
This disease believed to have killed more than one third of Europe's inhabitants in the Middle Ages.
What is the Black Death or Bubonic Plague?
200
Italy and Spain are both located near this sea.
What is the Mediterranean?
200
A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. Medieval Europe was made up of these smaller territories rather than large countries.
What is a city-state?
200
He wrote a book entitled "The Prince" about political leadership.
Who is Machiavelli?
200
He was a monk who believed that people were being corrupted by new Renaissance ideas.
Who is Savonarola?
200
The period that extends roughly from the middle of the fourteenth century to the beginning of the seventeen century, was a time of intense, all-encompassing, and, in many ways, distinctive philosophical activity.
What is the Renaissance?
300
This Florentine family gained power and wealth outside of the medieval social hierarchy.
Who are the Medici?
300
These continents were "discovered" by Europeans in the late 1400s.
What are the Americas?
300
A philosophy and movement during the Renaissance that broke from medieval religious tradition in favour of an interest in classical literature, and other worldly ideas.
What is humanism?
300
He started the Protestant Reformation by writing 95 theses against the Catholic Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
300
This revolutionary machine was invented in 1450 by Johannes Gutenberg.
What is the printing press?
400
These people commissioned artists to paint for them.
Who are patrons? (Or artistic patrons).
400
Most Renaissance trade routes were along these.
What are seas?
400
These 2 ancient societies inspired many humanists during the Renaissance.
Who are the Greeks and Romans?
400
He "discovered" the "New World" in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
What is perspective?
500
This Italian city is built on the Adriatic sea.
What is Venice?
500
These two European countries colonised most of South America.
What are Spain and Portugal?
500
He discovered 4 of Jupiter's moons after he enhanced the already invented telescope. He was later placed under house arrest by the Catholic Church.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
500
A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.