Renaissance
I wrote plays, many for Queen Elizabeth. Today, students in high school still learn about my plays and poems in their english class.
Who is Shakespeare?
This person invented the printing press that allowed the reformers to spread their ideas rapidly.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
He discovered the laws of gravitation. His law of universal gravitation states that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. He is also the person that figured all of that out after an apple fell on his head.
What is Isaac Newton
Where were the Incas located
Peru
What does Colonization mean
the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
Intellectual movement that led to the study of worldly subjects such as math, sciences, and arts.
What is Humanism?
This war was fought between Catholic and Protestant nations.
What is the Thirty Year's War?
He improved Copernicus's theory, that the sun is in the center of the universe, and figured out that the orbits of the planets aren't actually circular but ellipse.
What is Johannes Kepler
In Aztec mythology, what was the greatest gift you could offer the Gods?
The heart.
Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?
What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)
A protest against the practices of the church that errupted in the Renaissance period.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
What was the Counter Reformation
The Counter-Reformation served to solidify doctrine that many Protestants were opposed to, such as the authority of the pope and the veneration of saints, and eliminated many of the abuses and problems that had initially inspired the Reformation.
The idea that the sun is in the center of the universe.
What is Heliocentric
What are chinampas?
Floating islands.
Explain two negative effects of the Columbian Exchange.
What is... 1. Use of African slaves 2. Spread of Diseases to the New World.
This is the term used in renaissance art as opposed to middle age art, included; shading, and images appear to be off in the distance by using perspective.
What is realism?
What were the effects of the printing press
The printing press had dramatic effects on European civilization. Its immediate effect was that it spread information quickly and accurately. This helped create a wider literate reading public.
The action or process of being found.
What is Discovery
What was the Aztecs religion
The Aztec religion was primarily polytheist.
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1480-1521)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
Painting made on fresh, moist plaster
What is fresco?
This Catholic court could look into people's religious beliefs and execute heretics.
What is the Roman Inquisition?
He improved the telescope, described the path of projectiles, an object that is fired or launched, found out that the moon’s surface is rough and uneven, he discovered 4 moons around Jupiter, and he also studied Venus and found out that like the moon Venus also had different phases which made him realized that since Venus had phases like the moon then it must be traveling around the sun.
What is Galileo Galilei
What are mercenaries?
Hired Soldiers.
Who was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India? His success in doing so proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation. He subsequently made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese viceroy in India in 1524.
What is Vasco da Gama