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Middle Ages
Religion
Trade
Humanism
Scientific Revolution
100
Disease that killed approximately one third of Europe's population during the Middle Ages.
What is the Black Death?
100
The term for people who live in monasteries and dedicate their lives to God and to living in poverty.
What is monks.
100
The series of ancient trade routes through various regions of the Asian continent bringing goods to Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
100
The artist seen as the quintessential "Renaissance Man".
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
First field in which scientific revolution began.
What is astronomy?
200
The name for the political hierarchy that the Middle Ages was based on; dependent on land and labour.
What is feudalism?
200
The name for churches that emerged in response to the rejection of the teachings of the Catholic Church.
What is Protestant.
200
The class that gained the most prestige and wealth during the Renaissance.
What is merchants?
200
The most important contribution of humanism to our modern worldview is the focus on this.
What is the individual?
200
Most important invention of the Renaissance - spread the ideas of the Scientific Revolution, and the Bible
What is the printing press?
300
The term for agricultural workers who had to stay on the estate and work for the lord for free.
What are serfs?
300
The person who led the protest against the Catholic Church and started the first non-Catholic Christian church in Europe
Who is Martin Luther?
300
The spice that was worth more than gold during the Middle Ages/ beginning of Renaissance.
What is peppercorns?
300
The classical civilizations - Renaissance was a rebirth of the ideals of these civilizations.
What is Greek and Roman.
300
The name of the astronomer who proved that the sun is the center of the universe and had to take back his statements or be killed by the Church.
Who is Galileo?
400
The laws that controlled what people could wear, or buy, based on their class.
What are sumptuary laws?
400
What the Church sold to shorten one's time in purgatory.
What are indulgences?
400
The "queen city" of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
400
The language of one's region; the language one commonly speaks.
What is vernacular?
400
What is the most important quality that the Renaissance encouraged in explorers?
What is curiousity of the world around them.
500
The political and religious entity that most influenced Medieval people's worldview.
What is the Catholic Church?
500
The holy wars against the Muslims who controlled the "Holy Land".
What are the Crusades?
500
Sea upon which much trade occurred; Italy's location in the middle of it contributed greatly to it becoming the centre of the Renaissance.
What is the Mediterranean?
500
Humanists that believed that public service was the duty of everyone in society.
What is civic humanists?
500
The study of this subject was very important for art and science.
What is mathematics?