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He created the Mona Lisa

Who is Da Vinci?

100

I wrote plays, many for Queen Elizabeth. Today, students in high school still learn about my plays and poems in their english class.

Who is Shakespeare?

100
This means "rebirth" in french
What is Renaissance?
100

These are the 3 main city states 

Venice, Genoa, Florence

100

The definition of humanism

Attaching importance to people and encouraging individual ability and achievement 

200
Real bodies with movement 

Classical 

200

They are known for banking 

The medici family

200
These battles in the middle ages against the Muslims led to Europe gaining new technologies and allowed them to move out of the middle ages into the Renaissance.
What are the Crusades?
200

This helped us find things that seem very small to the eye 

the telescope 

200

Humanists were very interested in learning about people and their ideas, not just this topic that dominated the Middle Ages.

religion

300

These images are flat, have solid backgrounds, and are usually religious 

Medieval 

300

This person figured out gravity 

galileo 

300
Intellectual movement that led to the study of worldly subjects such as math, sciences, and arts.
What is Humanism?
300

Trade increased this throughout the city 

Wealth 

300

Humanists believed in learning more about

science, art, human anatomy

400

Michelangelo painted the roof of this building.

Sistine Chapel

400

Because of me, people could finally own their own bibles! I created metal plates that could copy books!

Who is Gutenberg?

400

This caused the beginning of the renaissance...BE SPECIFIC

The black plague, peasant began moving off of farms and into cities 

400

Heliocentrism means 

Sun centred 
400

Humanists believed education should focus on subjects like history, literature, grammar, and philosophy, known collectively as this.

Humanities

500

painting made on fresh plaster paper with watercolour 

What is fresco

500

I was upset that divided up Italy was getting picked on by neighboring countries so I wrote a book on how to get into power and how to keep it.

Machiavelli 

500
This is why Italy was able to aquire different cultures and technologies during the Renaissance? The location of Italy helped them do this.
What are trade routes?
500
I ticked off the Catholic Church, but I believed that the Sun was in fact the center of the universe! I am also considered the father of astronomy.
Who is Galileo?
500

Known as the father of humanism 

Petrarch