Italian Renaissance
This is the name of the crime family from Spain who infamously ruled as Popes.
Who are the Borgias?
This is the name of the theater that Shakespeare founded in London.
What is the Globe Theatre?
This is the German monk/professor who started the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This is how many meetings the Council of Trent had over 18 years (1545-1563).
What is three?
This is the Mayan goddess of the moon.
Who is Ixchel?
This is the legendary artist who painted the Sistine Chapel and carved the David.
Who is Michelangelo?
This is the poetic meter that Shakespeare often used, with five groups of two syllables that are unstressed then stressed.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
This is the English king who started a new branch of Christianity just so he could divorce his wife.
Who is Henry VIII?
This is the name of the Spanish town that Ignatius was from, that is also the name of many Catholic schools throughout the world.
What is Loyola?
This is the disease that wiped out more than 90% of the native population of Mexico.
What is smallpox?
This is the name of the Catholic monk and literature collector who believed the first two hundred years of the Roman Empire was the peak of human history.
Who is Petrarch?
This is the name of Shakespeare's acting troupe after they settled in London and started working for King James I.
Who are The King's Men?
This is the agreement that Charles V, the leader of the Holy Roman Empire, made in 1555 that allowed German princes to pick whether their lands were Catholic or Lutheran.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
This is the name of the Catholic group that focuses on education and spreading the Catholic faith through missionary work.
What is the Jesuits?
This is the act of cutting open a small vein to let blood out, either to balance your humors (if European) or feed the gods (if Mayan or Aztec).
What is bloodletting?
This is the name of the group of small states ruled over by the Pope.
What are the Papal States?
This is the creator of the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
This is the group that believed that infants should not be baptized and that there should be a separation in church and state.
Who are the Anabaptists?
This is the concept of certain artifacts, such as a scrap of cloth or a bone, having holy properties due to belonging to a holy figure.
What is relics?
This is the name of the leader of the conquistadores who toppled the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This is an Italian artist who was most well-known for his sculptures.
Who is Donatello?
This is a 14 line poem that rhymes.
What is a sonnet?
This is the idea that God has already chosen who goes to Heaven and Hell.
What is Predestination?
This is the concept that a cracker and wine consumed during Communion literally transforms into the body and blood of Jesus.
What is Transubstantiation?
This is the ancestry-based hierarchy system established by the Spanish in Mexico to discriminate against the indigenous peoples.
What is the Castas System?