Themes
Geography
Art
Science
Leaders
100

This era preceded the Renaissance and Renaissance ideas were often challenges to what people did and believed during this time

What were the Middle Ages or the Medieval Era?

100

This way of trading goods with Asia led to the creation of great wealth and the spread of knowledge (but also plague!)

What was the Silk Road?

100

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Who was Michelangelo?

100

He said that Aristotle was wrong; the sun, not earth, was the center of the Universe.

Who was Copernicus?

100

He was considered the greatest leader of this family who controlled Florence for many years

Who was Lorenzo de Medici?

200

The idea that human achievement can positively affect the way people live

What is humanism?

200

These cities in Italy became wealthy because of the Sil Road

What were the Trade Cities of Italy

200

He painted the Mona Lisa

Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?

200

He used a telescope to study the heavens

Who was Galileo?

200

The leader of the Catholic Church.

Who was the Pope?

300

The idea that following the dismal Medieval period the Renaissance represented a ___________ for humanity

What is a rebirth?

300

This city was known as the center of the Italian Renaissance

What was Florence?

300

His sculptures were very realistic and he worked in both stone and metal

Who was Donatello?

300

He began by asking the question. "Why does the apple fall?"

Who was Isaac Newton?

300

He challenged the Catholic Church over corruption and man's own ability to know God through the Bible

Who was Martin Luther?

400

This idea resulted in the creation of modern science 

What is rationalism?

400

This area of Europe produced many of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation

What was Northern Europe, Germany etc.?

400

He painted gorgeous scenes from Greek and Roman myths about the Gods

Who was Botticelli?

400

He mapped the orbits of the planets

Who was Kepler?

400

He was the leader of England who broke with the Catholic Church and helped found the Protestant Reformation. He also had a troubled married life.

Who was King Henry VIII?

500

This idea directly challenged the authority of the Catholic Church

What is reformation?
500

This island nation produced great leaders (a king and queen) as well as leaders of the reformation and the scientific revolution

What was England

500

He was a fine portrait artist and was credited with inventing oil painting

Who was Jan Van Eyk?

500

This invention measured air pressure

What was the Barometer?

500

She was Queen of England and helped defeat the Spanish Armada.

Who was Queen Elizabeth I

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