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Renaissance Artists
Scientists & Inventors
Vocabulary
The Catholic Church
Renaissance Explorers
100
Painted the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
Invented the printing press
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
100
What the word "renaissance" means in English
What is "rebirth"?
100
Dominican Friar who preached against the love of luxury he saw in Florence
Who is Girolamo Savonarola?
100
He reached the Caribbean islands and South and Central America
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
Studied anatomy to make his art more realistic
Who is Michelangelo?
200
Developed bandages and used thread to close wounds
Who is Ambroise Pare?
200
Two new classes of citizens who emerged during the Renaissance
What are craftsmen and merchants?
200
Dominican Friar who was an indulgence salesman
Who is John Tetzel?
200
Portuguese Prince who financed trips to West Africa and established a center for navigation where ships and instruments were developed
Who is Henry the Navigator?
300
Was known for painting pictures of peasants
Who is Pieter Brueghel?
300
Developed the laws of gravity
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
Wealthy people who financially supported artists and scholars
What are patrons?
300
This pope refused to grant a divorce to King Henry VIII
Who is Pope Clement VII?
300
Reached Newfoundland and made the first English claims in the New World
Who is John Cabot?
400
Designed and built the dome on the Florence Cathedral
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
400
Provided a more accurate description of human anatomy than Galen
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
400
Members of the Italian upper class who served in leadership positions and financially supported civic projects
What are patricians?
400
This pope excommunicated Martin Luther after the Diet of Worms
Who is Pope Leo X?
400
The first Englishman to circumnavigate the world
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
500
Two out of three prominent artists who were patronized by Cosimo de' Medici
Who are Donatello, Ghiberti, and Brunelleschi?
500
A gifted artist, scientist, philosopher, and inventor - he was a true "Renaissance Man".
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
500
The group of people who have been ordained for religious service
What is the clergy?
500
This pope tried to have Lorenzo de' Medici assassinated and believed he could release souls from purgatory
Who is Pope Sixtus IV?
500
Explored overland across modern-day Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?