The Black Death
This trade route served as the main highway for the plague's journey from east to west across Asia and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
Financial support provided by wealthy individuals to artists, writers, and scholars is called this.
What is patronage?
Who was the Renaissance writer and playwright who penned this tragic tale of star-crossed lovers Romeo & Juliet?
Who is William Shakespeare?
Before the Reformation, this specific church dominated most people's religious lives across Western Europe.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
This ancient model, favored by the Catholic Church, placed Earth at the universe's center.
Answer: What is the geocentric model?
These two small creatures were the delivery service for one of history's deadliest pandemics
What are fleas and rats?
A wealthy supporter who funds artists and intellectuals is known by this term.
What is a patron?
This Florentine banking family used their wealth to sponsor artists, architects, and scholars throughout the Renaissance.
Who are the Medici?
Martin Luther's famous document, nailed to a church door, contained 95 challenges to Catholic practices.
What are 95 Theses?
Galileo enhanced this instrument, allowing him to observe Jupiter's moons and support the sun-centered model.
Answer: What is the telescope?
The Black Death struck Europe during this century, wiping out approximately one-third of the population.
What is the 14th century (1300s)?
The Renaissance originated in this modern-day country, where ancient Roman ruins served as constant reminders of the glory of classical culture.
What is Italy?
Renaissance writers increasingly published works in this—the everyday language spoken by common people rather than Latin.
What is the vernacular?
Luther was outraged by the church's sale of these documents, which supposedly reduced punishment for sins.
What are indulgences?
This revolutionary model of the solar system challenged centuries of belief by positioning the sun at the center.
What is the heliocentric model?
Overcrowding, poor sanitation, and dense populations made these urban areas perfect breeding grounds for plague transmission.
What are cities?
Italy's participation in commerce/trade in this Sea connected it to the Byzantine Empire and Islamic empires that had preserved records of Greek knowledge.
What is Mediterranean sea?
This Renaissance inventor and artist is famous for producing such works as the mysterious smiling woman (Mona Lisa) and depicting Christ's final meal with his disciples (The Last Supper).
Hint: They are also a ninja turtle.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This English monarch broke from the Catholic Church after Luther and established himself as head of the Anglican Church in England?
Answer: Who is Henry VIII?
When religion is separated from politics, science, or the arts, those fields become this—free from religious control.
What is secular (or secularized)?
The church's inability to stop the plague or provide answers led to this change in how people viewed religious authority.
What is weakening/declining faith in the church's power?
Rather than accepting traditional authority, the Renaissance encouraged people to question observing, and think for themselves.
What is Humanism or Individualism?
This master sculptor and painter transformed the Sistine Chapel's ceiling into a biblical masterpiece and carved many famous statues from marble.
Hint: They are also a ninja turtle.
Answer: Who is Michelangelo?
John Calvin promoted this doctrine, teaching that God had already determined each person's salvation or damnation before birth
Answer: What is predestination?
This English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon pioneered what approach to knowledge based on observation, experimentation, and evidence-gathering.
What is the Scientific Method