Renaissance
This is the continent the Renaissance took place on.
Europe
Who is in charge of the Catholic Church?
The pope.
What religion did Renaissance artists follow?
Christianity
What is the process of making a hypothesis, testing through an experiment, and analyzing data called?
The Scientific Method.
Things that are not regarded as religious.
Secular
Renaissance thinkers were inspired by what time period in history?
Who wrote the 95 Thesis that started the reformation?
Martin Luther
Who painted the Sistene Chapel and sculpted the David?
Michaelangelo
Who was the astronomer that first theorized the earth revolved around the sun?
Copernicus
Money paid to the church to pardon sins and guarantee a ticket to heaven.
Indulgence
What invention helped learning and the written words spread during the Renaissance?
The Printing Press
Who were the banking family that managed to get themselves named Pope.
The Medici
Who was the artist that also learned a lot about human anatomy?
Leonardo Da Vinci
Who was the scientist and mathematician that invented modern calculus and described forces like gravity?
Isaac Newton
Criticisms of the Catholic Church written by Martin Luther.
The 95 Thesis
What was Niccolo Machiavelli's book The Prince meant to teach?
People how to rule, or be a dictator.
What two branches of Christianity formed as a result of the reformation.
Protestant and Catholic
What wealthy family sponsored a lot of the different art during the Renaissance?
The Medici family.
How did the Catholic Church respond to the early scientists who were making new findings about Earth's place in the universe?
They were locked up and silenced.
A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
Humanism
What was the most powerful institution in Europe at the beginning of the Renaissance?
The Catholic Church
What was the Catholic Church under the Medici's selling to make money?
Indulgences.
What philosophy guided artists to celebrate the individual and create pieces that included the human body and human achievement?
Humanism.
This is another name for the major change in European thought, starting in the 1500s, that came about as a result of the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
The Scientific Revolution
A religious movement of the 1500s century that began as an attempt to fix the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.
Reformation