He painted "La Gioconda", perhaps the world's most famous portrait. (It's also known as the Mona Lisa.)
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
The Protestant Reformation was started by this man.
Who was Martin Luther?
100
My most famous play is about a Danish prince who can't make up his mind.
Who is Shakespeare?
100
This means "rebirth" in french
What is Renaissance?
100
This Italian explorer raised money from Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella to finance his expedition to find the shortest sailing route to India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
Michelangelo painted the ceiling of this building, which serves as the Pope's private church.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
200
Following in Luther's footsteps, this French lawyer-turned-reformer founded the Reformed Church in Geneva and taught the doctrine of Predestination.
Who is John Calvin?
200
This Dutch priest and scholar, called "The Prince of Humanists," was known for printing the New Testament of the Bible in its original language (Greek)
Who is Erasmus?
200
This disease tore through Europe in the 1350's, killing half the population. The catastrophe caused people to start questioning what the Church had taught them.
What was the Black Plague?
200
This rigid system of social rankings was challenged during the Renaissance by the rise of a new middle class of bankers, traders, and skilled craftspeople.
What is hierarchy?
300
Perhaps the greatest sculptor of the Renaissance, this artist's bronze sculpture of David was the free-standing nude statue produced since Classical Antiquity.
Who is Donatello?
300
These were payments believers made to the Catholic Church in return for forgiveness from sins. The sale of these caused Martin Luther to begin his protests.
What are indulgences?
300
I wrote a famous "how-to" book on how to be a ruler. My advice was often harsh: I wrote, "For a prince, it is better to be feared than loved."
Who is Machiavelli?
300
Intellectual movement that led to the study of worldly subjects such as math, sciences, and arts.
What is Humanism?
300
This religious doctrine, developed by John Calvin, taught that God knows everything that you will ever do, including whether you will be saved or damned.
What is Predestination?
400
This technique of painting on fresh plaster let Renaissance artists achieve very precise and life-like details.
What is fresco?
400
This famous King's six wives had the following fates:
Divorced, executed, died, divorced, executed, survived.
Who is Henry VIII
400
I invented the first movable-type printing press, which allowed books to be printed much more quickly and accurately than before. The Bibles I printed are some of the most expensive books ever made.
Who is Gutenberg?
400
Strong banking and wool industries made this city very wealthy, allowing it to become the center of the early Italian Renaissance.
What is Florence?
400
The Renaissance saw a rapid increase in the movement of people from farms to cities, also known as...
What is Urbanization?
500
This term, used to describe how Renaissance Art differs from Medieval art, includes attention to life-like details; strong contrast between light and shadow; and the use of perspective to give the illusion of three dimensions.
What is realism?
500
A religious court that tried those that were breaking away from the church.
What is the Inquisition?
500
Despite being Pope I had multiple children, including Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia.
Who is Alexander VI?
500
The location of Italy in the center of the Mediterranean Sea made it a natural location for this economic activity involving the exchange of goods, services, and money.
What is trade?
500
Physicists of the world, unite! Newly emerging in the Renaissance was this belief that the natural world could be understood by the use of logic, close observation, and repeatable experiments.