What famous playwright and actor wrote "Romeo and Juliet" and many other plays and sonnets?
William Shakespeare
The theater in England where Shakespeare's plays were performed.
Globe Theater
What invention helped spread of Luther's ideas quickly across Europe?
Gutenburg's printing press
In what city did the Renaissance begin?
What wealthy family ruled it during most of the Renaissance?
Florence
the Medicis
Explain how this impacted the Reformation:
Martin Luther nailed up 95 theses (statements) about what he felt the Catholic Church was doing wrong, thereby kicking off the Protestant Reformation.
Much of the art of the Renaissance was based on what two Classical civilizations?
Greek and Roman
a person with many talents or areas of knowledge.
Renaissance Man
What or who kicked off the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
Nailed 95 Theses to church door
What is the belief in the worth and ability of all individuals?
humanism
Which one is Renaissance art and which Medieval? Give TWO ways you know.
left: Medieval (2-dimensional/flat, lack of perspective and detail)
right: Renaissance (3-dimensional, perspective, shading/lighting, detail, facial expressions)
Name TWO ways art changed from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance:
Perspective, detail, show emotion, everyday life/people, shading/lighting
During the Catholic Counter-Reformation, Jews/Muslims/Protestants were sometimes tortured and killed unless they converted. What was time this known as?
Spanish Inquisition
What was Luther's main problem with the Catholic Church?
That they sold indulgences (certificates that show sins are forgiven through payment)
This 1300's Italian author was the first to write a book in the people's language (Italian) instead of Latin, so that everyone could read it.
Dante: Divine Comedy
This man influenced the Renaissance period by bringing back inventions and ideas from his travels.
Some things he introduced to Europe were pasta, paper money, coal, lenses, gunpowder, silk and spices.
Marco Polo
Who painted/drew these pieces?
Da Vinci
This astronomer was arrested by the Catholic Church for his beliefs and kept under house arrest until he died.
Galileo
Henry VIII started which church? and why?
Anglican Church (Church of England)
So he could divorce.
Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat who wrote about how rulers should lead. Explain one of his ideas.
--It is better for leaders to be feared than loved.
--The belief that the end justifies the means (do what you need to do to keep order and peace)
Name TWO ways the Renaissance impacted Europe and the world:
--Rebirth of Classical art and culture
--brought Europe out of Dark Ages
--produced great works of art/literature
--led to Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
Title and Artist?
Botticelli
What is the Heliocentric Theory and who proposed it?
The sun is at the center of the universe (the earth rotates around the sun).
Copernicus
This protestant reformer taught that Christians shouldn't wear fancy clothes, gamble, drink or dance.
He also taught "predestination" or that God already knows who will be saved and won't (goes against Catholic teaching of purgatory).
John Calvin
--connections to ancient Rome
--trade had allowed rich patrons to fund artists
--Catholic Church had influence in region and encouraged art
Name TWO impacts the Reformation had on Europe and the world:
--split from Catholic Church and led to Protestant Denominations
--made religion more accessible to people (Ministers spoke in common language rather than Latin; Bible printed in common languages)
--led to wars, but eventually helped reform Church (quit selling indulgences, better trained priests, etc.)