Renaissance Writers and Philosophers
Renaissance Artists
Protestant Reformation
Russian Revolution
Russia Throughout History
100
The Prince
What is Machiavelli's claim to fame?
100
It was painted by the Renaissance Man and is one of the most recognized pieces of artwork today.
What is The Mona Lisa?
100
A document that condemned indulgences and other Church abuses.
What is the Ninety-Five Theses?
100
The Russian Revolution was fueled by these two main causes.
What are a lack of technological developments and bad government?
100
The leader of the Red Army and former head of the Petrograd Soviet.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
200
The father of humanism.
Who is Petrach?
200
It was created by Brunelleschi for the Cathedral of Florence.
What is Il Duomo?
200
He sold indulgences to fund the building of St. Peter's Bascilica.
Who is Johann Tetzel?
200
This treaty ended Russian involvement in World War I.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
200
A event at the Winter Palace that resulted in hundreds of people dead in 1905.
What is Bloody Sunday?
300
She wrote the City of Ladies, which was one of the first modern statements of feminism.
Who is Christine de Pisan?
300
Based off of new theories in optics, it was implemented in art from the Renaissance onwards.
What is perspective?
300
Luthers theology in three phrases.
What are sola scriptura, sola fide, sola gratia?
300
The army that opposed the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
What is the White Army?
300
The man that provided the energy behind the Russian Revolution due to the execution of his innocent brother.
Who is Lenin?
400
Any ruler that acts as a "lion" and as a fox".
What is a Machiavellian Ruler?
400
It showed the first use of perspective geometry in art.
What is Holy Trinity?
400
A document written by Luther in order to gain the support of the German princes and in response to a revolt.
What is Against the Murdering and Robbing Horde of Peasants?
400
A legislative assembly created by Tsar Nicholas II.
What is the Duma?
400
The Russian representative at the Congress of Vienna who wanted to gain control of Poland.
Who is Alexander I?
500
A writer who wrote a Latin history of Florence and admired Cicero.
Who is Leonardo Bruni?
500
He wrote backwards so imitators could not steal his ideas on science, engineering, anatomy and painting.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
500
A response to the reformation that reformed Church abuses and provided for better education of priests.
What is The Council of Trent?
500
The secret police of the Bolsheviks.
What is the Cheka?
500
A Enlightened Despot who added more territory to Russia than any other ruler but left many unfinished reforms.
Who is Catherine the Great?