The Renaissance
This Renaissance artist and inventor is perhaps most famous for painting the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
This scientist studied gravity and wrote the laws of motion after an apple fell on his head
Who is Isaac Newton?
The disease that wiped out ~half of Europe in the Middle Ages
What is the Black Death?
The English king who broke with the Catholic church over his ability to get a divorce
Who is Henry VIII?
The country where the Renaissance started
What is Italy?
This late-Renaissance writer said that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
Who is William Shakespeare?
This machine allowed books and papers to be published at a speed of thousands of pages per day
What is the printing press?
When the pope declares you a non-Christian
Payments to the Catholic church to 'remove' sin
What are indulgences?
This painting by Leonardo Da Vinci depicts Jesus and the disciples having a final meal together
What is The Last Supper?
This Renaissance artist is perhaps most famous for the Statue of David and for painting the Sistine Chapel
Who is Michelangelo?
The model of the solar system in which the Sun, not the Earth, lies at the center
What is heliocentrism?
What are Iceland, Greenland, and Canada?
Who is Martin Luther?
The peasant girl who helped lead the French to victory in the Hundred-Years' War
Who is Joan of Arc?
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?
This astronomer started the Scientific Revolution by questioning whether or not the Earth was really the center of the Universe
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
The Frankish king who became the first Holy Roman Emperor
The name of Martin Luther's first writing that criticized the church, famously nailed to the Wittenberg door
What is Ninety-five Theses?
The socioeconomic system in which peasants work on land owned by lords and ladies
What is feudalism?
The study of ancient cultures to increase the understanding of one's own culture
What is humanism?
Three steps in the scientific method
What are observation, research, hypothesis, experiment, collect data, analysis, or conclusion?
The primary goal of the Crusades
What is "To retake Jerusalem from the Turks"?
The name for all groups that split from the Catholic church following the Reformation
Who are Protestants?
This scientist developed the scientific method
Who is Francis Bacon?