Places and Dates
The Renaissance started in this part of Europe first.
What is Italy?
What is Renaissance?
Workaholic artist known for being a talented sculptor, painter, and architect.
Who is Michelangelo?
Renaissance ideas were borrowed from these ancient cultures.
What are Greece and Rome?
Who is Jane Grey?
The date of Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the church door.
What is October 31, 1517?
A philosophy of studying the accomplishments of people, with less of a focus on spiritual ideas.
Humanism
Who is Elizabeth I?
This invention made castles and longbows obsolete for warfare.
What is gunpower?
This is one subject you have to take in school, because Humanist started the tradition.
Answers vary.
What country, outside of Europe, was unifying in the late 1500s?
What is Japan?
A religious idea that one can pay the church to forgive their sins.
The author of The Divine Comedy, about a man who travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.
Who is Dante?
Religion changed in Europe as the Christian church split into these two groups.
What are Catholic and Protestant?
This country invented both the Press and Gunpowder, before Europe used the ideas.
What is China?
This area was the home of the inventor of the moveable printing press, Gutenberg, AND the home of religious reformer Martin Luther.
What is Germany?
An art technique where one paints directly into wet plaster.
What is Fresco?
This Emperor did not approve of Luther's new ideas for the Christian church and put him on trial.
Who is Charles V?
Writers stopped using only Latin for books, instead using this, the language people speak.
What is Vernacular?
Describe what happened to all six of Henry VIII's wives.
Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.
What is England?
Daily Double!
What are the names and artists of these three Renaissance artworks?
This was the first European explorer to travel to Asia and introduced noodles to Italy.
Who was Marco Polo?
Artwork changed as styles become more realistic, thanks in part to this mathematical drawing tactic.
What is linear perspective?
Who is Raphael?