Renaissance
What does Renaissance actually mean?
Rebirth
What was the most important renaissance city?
Florence.
People who drew maps were called.....
Cartographers
The Caravel
What is the name of the place between heaven and hell?
Purgatory
What was a Patron?
A wealthy person who commissioned an artist to create a piece of art for them.
Painting technique involving smudging or blurred lines.
Sfumato.
Ill health was common on ships. Name the two most prevalent ailments.
Typhoid and scurvy
Which two American civilisations were conquered by the Spanish?
Aztecs and Incas
Everyone had to pay one tenth of their annual income to church, what was that called?
Tithe
Depth and distance was created in paintings using......
Perspective.
The study of the structure of the human body was also called the study of what?
Anatomy
Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
What city was Christopher Columbus born in?
Genoa
Name the man who was selling indulgences for the repair of St. Peter's Basilica.
John Tetzel
Who is credited with improving the telescope?
Galileo Galilei
What was Galileo convicted of?
Heresy
What was the capital city of the Aztecs?
Tenochtitlan
What did Bartolomeu Dias do?
Rounded the southern tip of Africa.
Who was the Pope that sent Martin Luther the Papal Bull
Pope Leo X
Who wrote 'On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres'?
Nicolaus Copernicus
What did William Harvey discover?
That the heart pumped blood around the body.
Which treaty divided the new world between Spain and Portugal?
The exchange of foods, animals and technologies between Europe and the Americas was called.......
The Columbian exchange
Which Edict made Luther an outlaw?
Edict of Worms