Renaissance Basics
This word means “rebirth” and describes the time when Europeans rediscovered ideas from Greece and Rome.
What is the Renaissance?
This artist painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This movement challenged the Catholic Church and led to new Protestant churches.
What is the Reformation?
This Renaissance belief focused on human achievements and potential.
What is humanism?
This period when people began using science and reason to explain the world is called this revolution.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
During the Renaissance, many Europeans studied ideas from these two ancient civilizations.
What are Greece and Rome?
This Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
The Church sold these to forgive sins, which angered reformers.
What are indulgences?
This artistic technique makes flat paintings appear to have depth.
What is perspective?
This Polish scientist proposed that the sun was at the center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This Italian city became wealthy from banking and helped lead the Renaissance
What is Florence?
This Renaissance thinker wrote The Prince about how rulers should govern.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of a church in this German city.
What is Wittenberg?
This Protestant belief says people are saved through faith alone.
What is sola fide?
This term describes the idea that Earth is at the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric model?
These small independent cities in Italy competed for power during the Renaissance.
What are city-states?
This reformer wrote the Ninety-Five Theses criticizing the Catholic Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
This English king created the Church of England after the pope refused to annul his marriage.
Who is Henry VIII?
This belief says God already knows who will be saved
What is predestination?
This scientist used a telescope to observe moons around Jupiter
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This wealthy banking family in Florence supported artists and scholars.
Who were the Medici?
This reformer from Switzerland taught the idea of predestination.
Who is John Calvin?
This major war between Catholics and Protestants lasted from 1618 to 1648.
What is the Thirty Years’ War?
This idea says the Bible alone should guide religious belief.
What is sola scriptura?
This word describes the model where the sun is at the center of the universe.
What is heliocentric?