Renaissance Innovators
This inventor created movable type and printed the Latin Bible as his masterpiece.
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
This monk nailed the Ninety-Five Theses to the Wittenberg door in 1517 and believed in only two sacraments.
Who is Martin Luther?
This scholar produced the Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Bible.
Who is Jerome?
This Italian sailor made four voyages to the Americas, landing first on San Salvador and connecting the Old and New Worlds.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This mathematician developed calculus, formulated laws of motion and gravity, and built a reflecting telescope and Author of Principia Mathematica.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This Tudor king was excommunicated for divorcing without papal approval.
Who is Henry VIII?
Painter, sculptor, engineer, architect, and musician
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This theologian influenced Geneva, wrote "Institutes of the Christian Religion," and promoted church services in the common language and was a Prominent citizen of Geneva.
Who is John Calvin?
This English professor translated the Bible from Latin to English, earning the title "morning star of the Reformation."
Who is John Wycliffe?
This traveler to China expanded European knowledge beyond old boundaries.
Who is Marco Polo?
This astronomer supported the Copernican theory, observed with a telescope, and was tried by the Inquisition in 1633.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This "Sun King" believed he was central to France like the sun to the world.
Who is Louis XIV?
This sculptor created the 17-foot-tall David and represented the Renaissance through diverse skills.
Who is Michelangelo?
This founder of the Mennonites emphasized holy living and separation of church and state.
Who is Menno Simons?
Put to death for translating the Bible into English
Who is William Tyndale?
His ship's crew completed the first circumnavigation of the world on the Nao Victoria.
Answer: Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Leader behind the Reign of Terror
Who is Robespierre?
This Holy Roman Emperor tried to force Protestants back into Catholicism.
Who is Charles V?
This family rose to power through banking in Italy and influenced the Renaissance.
Who is the Medici family?
This preacher delivered the sermon "The Ascension of Christ" and urged calling on Jesus during temptation.
Who is Girolamo Savonarola?
This figure oversaw the translation of the Great Bible.
Who is Miles Coverdale?
This explorer worked for a Medici bank in Spain; the Americas are named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This philosopher developed empiricism, compared the mind to a blank slate, and advocated government protecting individual rights.
Who is John Locke?
This king faced Parliament in the English Civil War of 1642.
Who is Charles I?
This humanist wrote "The Praise of Folly," criticizing superstitions like measuring purgatory with an hourglass.
Who is Erasmus?
This group, nicknamed for their baptism beliefs, formed their first congregation in 1525 and stressed a holy lifestyle as the sign of the true church.
Who are the Anabaptists?
This king translated the four Gospels into Anglo-Saxon in the 900s.
Who is Alfred the Great?
This Portuguese king named the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is King John II?
This astronomer theorized planetary motion as magnetic attraction and used inductive/deductive reasoning.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
English dynasty of Henry VIII
What is Tudor