During the Battle of Santo Cerro, when the Tainos were trying to destroy the cross that Columbus had planted near the battlefield, a Spanish
priest had a vision. What did the priest see?
Who is the Virgin Mary standing at Columbus’ cross, dressed in robes of purest white and
bearing the infant Jesus in her arms.
What does Renaissance mean?
What is Rebirth
To Roman Catholic Christians, what does St. Peter’s Basilica symbolize?
What is St. Peter’s Basilica symbolizes the pope’s authority, which comes directly from the Apostle Peter
Describe the trick that the apprentice Giotto played on his mentor Cimabue.
What is While Cimabue was out of the studio, Giotto painted a very
Who was probably the greatest example of the ideal Renaissance man?
Who Leonardo da Vinci.
Name the last door that African slaves saw before they shipped out to the New World.
What is the Door of No Return or the Portal of Sorrow.
What did printer Gutenberg do to the edges of his Gutenberg Bibles’ pages?
What is He gilded them (coated them with thin layers of gold)
What was the main difference between the way Erasmus wanted to reform the church and the way Martin Luther wanted to reform the
church?
What is Erasmus wanted to repair the church’s flaws without destroying it in the process. Luther eventually decided to tear the entire church
down and start over from nothing.
Why did Brunelleschi choose to build the Duomo’s domed roof out of bricks?
What is Because bricks are lighter than stone.
According to Greek science, everything in the universe was made from five fundamental elements. The four earthly elements were earth, air, fire and water. What was the fifth, heavenly element?
What is Ether
The Quinto Real, or “King’s Fifth,” entitled the King of Spain to what?
What is The Quinto Real entitled the king to one fifth of any precious metals that
According to legend, what is the source of the iron that lines the Iron Crown of Lombardy?
What is The iron came from one of the spikes that the Romans drove through Jesus Christ’s hands and feet when they nailed Him to the cross.
Name the university where Martin Luther taught Bible.
What is The University of Wittenberg, Germany.
What unusual thing did Renaissance sculptor Donatello do with his money?
What is Donatello kept his money in an open basket in his studio, and allowed his friends to take whatever they needed without even asking.
Name the pamphlet that Galileo published to describe the discoveries that he made with his new telescope.
Who is The Starry Messenger
According to the Spanish Requirement of 1513, who gave the King of Spain authority over the people of the New World?
Who is The popes gave the
King of Spain his authority. The popes received their own authority from the Apostle Peter, who received it from Christ, who received it from
God the Father.
What is a plutocracy?
What is A plutocracy is a form of government in which only the wealthiest citizens have a voice.
According to tradition, how did Martin Luther first publish this list?
What is Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of Wittenberg Church.
Whom did Fra Lippi use as his model for Madonna and Child with Two Angels? How did Lippi meet this model?
What is Lippi’s model was a young woman named Lucrezia Buti, whom Lippi met while she was living under the care of some nuns.
What did Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems suggest about the pope?
What is The Dialogue suggested that the pope was an old fool who would never listen to scientific reason, no matter how wrong he was.
Name the sea route that Portuguese traders used to carry slaves to the New World.
What is The Middle Passage.
Where were Lorenzo de Medici and his brother when the Pazzi conspirators attacked them?
What is Inside Florence’s greatest cathedral, the Duomo.
Name the 1521 meeting at which Martin Luther stood before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and defended his anti-Roman Catholic writings.
What is The Diet of Worms.
How did Leonardo keep his model Elisabetta smiling while he painted her for the “Mona Lisa”?
What is Leonardo hired jesters and circus clowns to
keep Elisabetta entertained.
Where did the name “Protestant” originate?
What is “Protestant” came from some German nobles’ formal letter of protest against the Holy Roman Emperor’s decisions at the 1529 Second Diet of Speyer.