Causes of the Renaissance
This major event reduced Europe’s population and led to social and economic change.
The Black Plague
This church was dominant in everyday lives in Europe before the Reformation
Catholic Church
He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Leonardo da Vinci
He said the Sun is at the center of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
Columbian Exchange
This wealthy Italian city is known as the birthplace of the Renaissance.
Florence
The selling of forgiveness for sins was called this.
Indulgences
This technique used lines that meet at a vanishing point to create the illusion of depth and space.
Linear perspective
He used a telescope to support the heliocentric theory.
Galileo Galilei
This new technology helped sailors find their direction.
Compass
Rich families who paid artists and scholars were called this.
Patrons
He wrote the 95 Theses to criticize the Church
Martin Luther
This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo
He discovered the laws of motion and gravity.
Isaac Newton
The social system with kings at the top and peasants at the bottom.
Feudal System
This movement focused on human potential, education, and classical learning.
Humanism
The Reformation led to this major change in Christianity.
Catholicism and Protestantism
This study helped artists learn about human bodies more accurately.
Anatomy and dissection
This invention helped spread new religious ideas quickly.
Printing Press
This type of economy has total government control of economy. (North Korea)
Command Economy
Peasants had more power after the plague because of this reason
Less workers = higher wages
A religious leader who speaks for the Catholic Church
The Pope
This technique uses light and shadow to make objects look 3-D
Shading/chiaroscuro
Renaissance artists studied this subject to make human bodies more realistic.
Anatomy
______factors are things that are unfavorable about the home area that one lives in, and ______factors are things that attract one to another host area.
Push and Pull Factors