Renaissance and Baroque Art
Christian art will almost always indicate Christ and Mary with this holy symbol
What is a halo?
This Incan city in the mountains went undiscovered by Europeans until the 20th century
What is Machu Picchu?
An individual who is skilled in multiple disciplines, such as art, mathematics, and rhetoric
What is a Renaissance Man?
This institution wasn't fond of the Scientific Revolution, forcing some of them to condemn what they discovered as it went against what this institution was teaching.
What is The Catholic Church (Accept Church alone)
Life, Liberty, and Property were the three natural rights developed by this political philosopher
Who is John Locke?
This artist behind the colossal David also painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel after the Pope commissioned him
Who is Michelangelo?
The extensive transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) and the New World (the Americas).
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The rights with which people are born
What are natural rights?
This Polish astronomer introduced the concept of a sun-centered, or heliocentric, universe
Who is Copernicus?
Voltaire often wrote to this woman, who kept serfdom around in spite of her desires to be an "enlightened" absolutist
Who is Catherine the Great?
This woman is a great representation of how anatomical features got more accurate in the Renaissance. They say her eyes follow you when you look at her namesake painting...
Who is Mona Lisa? (by Da Vinci)
This system compelled Indigenous people in Spanish colonies to provide labor or tribute to landholders in exchange for protection and instruction in Christianity.
What is Encomienda?
To travel completely around the world
What is circumnavigate?
This British scientist is credited with publishing laws of motion and the Universal Law of Gravitation
Who is Issac Newton?
Baron de Montesquieu had the bright idea to develop this three-word concept that may have not seemed so appealing to monarchs and their "total" authority
What is "Separation of Powers"?
This artistic technique uses a mathematical system to create the illusion of depth and distance on a flat surface
What is linear perspective?
This conquistador brought an end to the Aztec empire on behalf of the Spanish throne
Who is Hernan Cortez?
A place where souls must go to await their arrival to heaven
What is purgatory?
This French philosopher is associated with the deductive method of reasoning
Who is Rene Descartes?
This economist wants the government to keep their hands off the market and leave it to an invisible force
Who is Adam Smith?
This sculptor captured true emotion in Saint Teresa's face in his sculpture of her "ecstasy", which used golden shards of glass to represent rays of sunlight.
Who is Bernini?
This civilization of Central America predates the Mayans and are most famous for their construction of heads
Who are the Olmecs?
The term for the child of an Native American and a European in 16th century Americas
Just thinking about this thinker, who developed the Scientific Method, makes most a little bit hungry. Mr. Prather....not so much
Who is Francis Bacon?
She may have stood out to you guys as the only Enlightenment thinker that was devoted to the cause of equal rights between the sexes, but do you remember her name?
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?