At the heart of the Renaissance is this movement, which emphasized using the wisdom of the Greeks and Romans to learn more about the world around them.
What is humanism?
100
This invention transformed the world by making knowledge easier to access.
What is the printing press?
100
The Protestant Reformation was started by this man in the year 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
100
These are pardons for sins committed during a person's lifetime.
What are indulgences?
100
This man developed calculus and discovered gravity, among other things.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
200
Books shifted their focus from religious themes to this - an expression of real-life issues/struggles.
What is realism?
200
This author transformed the English language, wrote a whole bunch of plays, composed a whole bunch of poems, and still affects us today.
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
This man spread the Protestant Reformation, but evolved it by introducing the idea of predestination.
Who is John Calvin?
200
This belief says that God has already determined who would gain salvation.
What is predestination?
200
The sale of these was of particular importance for starting the Protestant Reformation.
What are indulgences?
300
This new technique in art allowed painters to represent a 3 dimensional world.
What is perspective?
300
This author wrote Utopia, which described an ideal society.
Who is Sir Thomas More?
300
This man started the Reformation in England, when he wanted a divorce from his wife, and centralized religious power under him through the Act of Supremacy.
Who is Henry VIII?
300
This is an agreement in which each side makes concessions.
What is a compromise?
300
This man proposed the heliocentric theory .
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
400
This answer has 4 parts, it's all or nothing for getting it right or wrong.
Name two Renaissance artists from Italy and an example of their famous work.
Who is Michelangelo (Sistene Chapel, David, La Pieta) and DaVinci (Last Supper, Mona Lisa)
400
The Renaissance didn't reach Northern Europe until after this year.
What is 1450?
400
This woman brought peace to England with a series of religious compromises, and kept it from falling apart while other countries were during the 1500s.
Who is Elizabeth I?
400
This is the everyday language of ordinary people.
What is vernacular?
400
The Renaissance was only able to spread because of this.
What is trade?
500
The Renaissance first started in Italy, in this city and was supported by this family.
Two parts to this answer - all or nothing!
What is Florence and the Medici family?
500
This city was a trading capital of Northern Europe and the center of the Renaissance in Northern Europe.
What is Flanders?
500
These people met on and off for 20 years to reform the Catholic Church.
What is the Council of Trent?
500
This term describes an idealistic society.
What is utopian?
500
This man was arrested for his discoveries that proved the planets moved around the sun, which he made after inventing the telescope.