Middle Ages
These kept medieval Europe safe... And there were a few who assembled at a "round table" in England!
What are knights?
This tool helped scientists study the stars...
What is a telescope?
The church that ruled most of Western Europe for centuries...
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
This country was the epicenter of the Renaissance.
What is Italy?
This city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Once Ottoman Turks conquered it, ancient knowledge spread throughout Europe sparking the Renaissance...
What is/was Constantinople/Istanbul?
The chief authority in Christian Europe.
Who is the Pope?
This tool helps scientists and doctors study microrganisms... And even helped us discover them in the first place!
What is a microscope?
This priest published the 95 Theses, official complaints against the Pope...
Who was Martin Luther?
This device helped Renaissance figures publish their work for the rest of Europe to see!
What is a printing press?
This Italian city-state was a hotbed for Renaissance thinkers...
What is Florence? Also accepting Rome or Venice...
The name of the land exchanged in a feudal society.
What is a fief?
This process helped scientists test hypotheses and make scientific discoveries!
What is the Scientific Method?
The name of Martin Luther's new sect of Christianity.
What is Protestantism?
This Italian artist, engineer, scientist, and thinker devised some of the greatest works of art, designed early prototypes of planes and helicopters, and was a true "Renaissance Man."
This 80s gang of martial artists was all the rage in the 90s, inspired by Renaissance thinkers!
Who are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
The bacteria that caused the Bubonic Plague...
What is Yrsenia Pestis?
This scientist discovered many realities about the universe, including inertia and gravity...
Who was Isaac Newton?
If you disobeyed the Pope, the Roman Catholic Church, or the Bible, you were kicked out of the church's community and your soul would go to hell...
What is excommunication?
This concept celebrated ancient traditions, making democracy, individualism, and science more popular in Europe during the Renaissance...
What is Greco-Romanism?
There are Protestant Christians, there are Catholic Christians, and there are...
Who are Eastern Orthodox Christians?
The holy wars fought between Christians and Muslims for control of Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Lands nearby...
What are the Crusades?
He was put on trial as a heretic for arguing that the Earth revolves around the Sun... Which it does!
Who was Galileo Galilei?
Martin Luther hated these, he knew poor people couldn't afford them and that the Church was just getting rich off of them. Supposedly you could buy forgiveness for your sins...
What are indulgences?
The famous Renaissance era statue of this person depicts the Biblical underdog hero who slayed Goliath... He clearly works out...
Who was David?
A birthday present to the wife of a wealthy Florentian silk merchant, painted by Leonardo Da Vinci and arguably the most recognized work of art in the world...
What is the Mona Lisa?