A period of creativity, new ideas, from about 1350-1500.
What is the Renaissance?
100
The period in history that was a religious reform movement to change the Catholic Church.
What is the Reformation?
100
The widespread change in European views and a series of events that led to the birth of modern science.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
100
The capital of France.
What is Paris?
100
Who discovered the Western Hemisphere by accident?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
The French word for Renaissance.
What is "rebirth"?
200
A German monk that nailed a list of complaints about the Church to a church door in Wittenberg.
Who is Martin Luther?
200
What is it that the Church feared would weaken their influence when it went against the Church's teachings?
What is science?
200
The capital of the United Kingdom.
What is London?
200
Who is the Queen of Spain that supported Columbus' voyage.
Who is Queen Isabella?
300
He was an artist, painter of the Mona Lisa, as well as inventor of such things as the submarine and helicopter.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
Christians that broke from the Catholic Church over religious issues and started a new church.
What are Protestants?
300
He was an Italian scientist that gathered evidence to support Copernicus' theory the earth revolved around the sun.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
300
The capital of Spain.
What is Madrid?
300
Magellan tried to do this as the first person to journey around the globe? He tried to sail around the world.
What is circumnavigate?
400
He is considered the greatest of all Rennaisance writers. The movie "Gnomeo and Juliet" is a spin off of one of his plays.
Who is William Shakespeare?
400
The invention that made the Bible cheaper and easily available to the common people.
What is the printing press?
400
One invention that lead to greater discoveries with the stars and planets.
What is the telescope?
400
The capital of Belgium.
What is Brussels?
400
Which European country once owned the land that is currently Indiana?
What is France?
500
During and after the Crusades, cities such as ________ and Venice became very rich though trade.
What is Florence?
500
A series of reforms that the Catholic officials to turn more focus from political to spiritual concerns.
What is the Catholic Reformation?
500
The scientist that is best known for his work with gravity. He discovered gravity while sitting under and apple tree and had an apple hit him on the head.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
500
The capital of Poland.
What is Warsaw?
500
Which European country claimed the most land in the Americas. They also defeated the Aztecs for their gold.