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The term for someone who is good at several different things
renaissance man
A financial supporter of the arts
patron
This play is about two teenagers that die in each others arms
Romeo and Juliet
This practice allowed people to gain forgiveness by giving the Catholic Church money
The disproved theory that Earth is the center of the solar system
geocentric
This word describes someone who doesn't really care about religion
secular
An intellectual movement that focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious issues
Humanism
This person is famous for his tragic plays and for inventing more than 1,700 words
William Shakespeare
The idea that God had long ago determined who would gain salvation.
predestination
The first person to see the mountains on the moon after he assembled his own telescope.
This person invented Calvinism and believed that humans were sinful by nature
John Calvin
The artistic practice of making distant objects in a painting smaller and closer objects bigger
perspective
The Renaissance was able to spread to other parts of Europe partly due to this invention, which made it easier to make copies of written material
printing press
This king left the Church because he wanted to divorce his wife
King Henry VIII
This person painted the Mona Lisa and also dissected corpses to learn more about human anatomy
Leonardo da Vinci
A government run by Church leaders
Theocracy
Known for sculpting the statue of David
Michelangelo
This person was considered to be the "German Leonardo"
Albrecht Dürer
This person wrote a list of 95 theses against indulgences and nailed them to the door of the church in Wittenberg
The time period that began during the end of the Renaissance when people started to think differently about the physical world
Scientific Revolution
This "renaissance man" painted the Hand of God on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Michaelangelo
This person though the Bible should be written in the language of the people so that everyone could read it
Desiderius Erasmus
This religion teaches that a person can reach salvation through his/her own good works and not by buying ritualistic selling of indulgences
Protestantism
This person used math to show that a single force called gravity keeps the planets in their orbits around the sun
Isaac Newton