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100
She was Henry VIII's protestant daughter, she persecuted Catholics, supported the arts and ruled for 44 years. She has an age named after her.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
100
This is the country where the Renaissance started.
What is Italy?
100
This Renaissance writer in England created many classic plays and poems.
Who is Shakespeare?
100
This is what a painter needed in order not to starve.
What is a patron?
100
This was a Renaissance man who was not only an artist but inventor as well. His sketches foreshadow technology we have today.
Who is Leonardo De Vinci?
200
He was a German who entered religious life after nearly getting struck by lightning. He didn't like indulgences and thought the Church was corrupt.
Who is Martin Luther?
200
This is a city where art thrived during the Renaissance.
What is Florence, Italy?
200
This was a meeting where Church officials explained officially what Catholics believed so that there would be no more confusion.
What is the Council of Trent?
200
This was a new technique painters used to make their art more realistic.
What is perspective?
200
This is when power is shared.
What is federalism?
300
He had six wives and started his own Church when the pope refused to grant him a divorce.
Who is Henry VIII?
300
This is a the country who had a line of popes of there very own causing a schism in the Church.
What is France?
300
These were used to fund building projects like St. Peters Basilica in Rome and were abused leading to complaints by Martin Luther.
What are indulgences?
300
This artist preferred sculpting to painting and the chapel ceiling he painted is where new popes are elected.
Who is Michelangelo?
300
The growth of these aided in the spread of the Renaissance.
What are cities?
400
He was an enlightened Renaissance thinker who wrote the famous book Utopia and had his head cut off for not supporting a certain monarchs divorce.
Who is Thomas More?
400
This is a country who's religious leader is the king or queen.
What is England?
400
This device helped to spread ideas and made it cheaper to learn.
What is the printing press?
400
This is a belief that humans are not so bad and in fact pretty darn cool
What is humanism?
400
These are three things that became more advanced during the Renaissance.
What are cartography, understanding of human anatomy and engineering? Math and science are also okay.
500
He was a soldier who started taking his faith seriously after being wounded on the battle field. He started the Society of Jesus, an order that would counter the reformation.
Who is Ignatius Layola?
500
This is a country that was so super Catholic they kicked anyone that wasn't out, and designed a trial system to investigate Catholics who were not Catholic enough or faking it.
What is Spain?
500
The end of warfare, decrease in plague outbreaks, reopening of the silk roads and increased political stability lead to this
What is the Renaissance?
500
This was something that people became interested in during the Renaissance. It was a period that had to do with ancient Greece and Rome .
What is classical or classical period?
500
This is a word that has to do with the language you speak everyday.
What is vernacular?