Renaissance
Reformation
Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution
European Countries
100
What does Renaissance mean?
Re-birth
100
What was the reformation?
A movement that sought to reform the Catholic Church and led to Protestantism
100
What was the name of the first constitution created by the United States after the Revolution?
The Articles of Confederation
100
What is the first step in the scientific method that is an educated guess or prediction?
Hypothesis
100
What country is this?
Italy
200
Which Renaissance painter painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper?
Leonardo da Vinci
200
What were indulgences?
Payments made to the Catholic Church for the forgiveness of sins
200
What country was the first to be created after the people put into action Enlightenment ideas about natural rights and broke away from their mother country?
The United States
200
How did the Scientific Revolution challenge traditional beliefs?
It encouraged using reason, observation, and experimentation to understand the world
200
What country is this?
France
300
This invention helped spread Renaissance ideas or helped spread knowledge in general
printing press
300
What were the 95 theses?
A list of complaints against the Catholic Church written by Martin Luther
300
During the Enlightenment what did the enlightenment thinkers begin to harshly criticize?
Absolute monarchy and the power of the Catholic Church
300
Why was Galileo Galilei put on trial by the Catholic Church?
He challenged church teachings by promoting scientific ideas
300
What country is this?
Spain
400
In what country did the Renaissance begin?
Italy
400
Why was the Reformation inevitable?
The sale of indulgences and corruption among church officials
Extreme Church corruption
400
What was the purpose of salons?
informal social gathering where writers, artists, philosophers, and others exchanged ideas
400
Explain the Heliocentric theory and the Geocentric theory
Heliocentric = created by Nicolas Copernicus; sun is at center of universe
Geocentric = created by Greek philosophers; Earth is at center of universe
400
Great Britain
500
What two cultures did people look at for inspiration during the Renaissance?
Greek and Roman
500
Where did Luther nail his 95 theses?
The University of Wittenberg's Chapel door.
(Outside of a chapel is acceptable)
500
Ruled France with absolute power and famously said, "I am the state"
Louis XIV
500
What was Thomas Hobbes' view on government?
A strong central government is necessary to control people's selfish and violent nature
500
Germany