Renaissance
This is the modern day country in which the Renaissance began.
What is Italy?
This Renaissance painted the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This is the name for taxes collected by the church
What are tithes?
This man created a heliocentric model of the universe
Who is Copernicus?
This city was overthrown by the Ottomans in 1453
What is Constantinople?
This ancient empire was centered in Italy...specifically the center was one city.
What is the Roman Empire?
This man wrote "The Prince" and posed the question "is it better to be feared or to be loved?"
Who is Machiavelli?
This is the man that kickstarted the reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This man discovered gravity
This emperor built his fortune on salt and gold
Who is Mansa Musa?
This is the name for the intellectual movement at the center of the Renaissance
What is humanism?
This family were some of the biggest patrons of the Italian Renaissance?
Who are the Medicis?
This is the thing the church was selling that upset Martin Luther
What are indulgences?
This man was a pioneering English chemist
Who is Robert Boyle?
This is the name of the made made waterway that connected rivers in China
What is the Grand Canal?
This is an example of a subject that is a humanity.
several answers accepted.
This melancholy genius sculpted David
Who is Michelangelo?
This is the religion that believed that it was already decided who goes to heaven.
What is Calvinism?
This man emphasized that human reasoning is the best road to understanding.
Who is Descartes?
This is the name of the elite fighting force in the Ottomans
What are the Janissaries?
This means the language with which people speak.
This man was a Florentine poet and scholar who assembled a library of manuscripts
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
This was the number of Theses posted on the church door.
What is 95?
This man observed the night sky every night for years.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
This is what the hajj pillar is
What is a pilgrimage?