These two animals helped spread the Black Death throughout Europe on merchant trade ships.
What are rats and fleas?
100
This Italian writer published "The Prince," which argued that leaders must acquire and keep power by any means necessary, including the use of immoral means.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
100
New painting technique that emerged during the Renaissance where paintings were done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints.
What is a fresco?
100
Division of Christianity was created after Martin Luther's break from the Catholic Church.
What is Protestantism?
100
This religious leader created The Consistory, an organization for enforcing moral discipline in the city of Geneva.
Who is John Calvin?
200
This group was a target for hate and persecution during the years of the Black Death because they often lived in segregated communities and were quarantined from the disease.
Who are the Jews?
200
Movement led by Desiderius Erasmus that sought to reform the Catholic Church and create more pious citizens.
What is Christian humanism?
200
Common Renaissance marriage custom where monetary gift is given by the wife's family to the husband.
What is a dowry?
200
This agreement accepted the division of Christianity between Catholicism and Protestantism in Germany.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
200
This declaration by the Catholic Church declared Martin Luther an outlaw and called for Luther's works to be burned.
What is the Edict of Worms?
300
This social and economic system was brought to an end by the Black Death.
What is feudalism?
300
The first book produced from movable type from the printing press.
What is the Gutenberg Bible?
300
Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician who created The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
300
Religious leader whose Protestant sect bears his name. Emphasized idea of predestination to spread their faith to others.
Who is John Calvin and Calvinism?
300
According to Calvin and Luther, these were the most important duties of Protestant women, which resulted in minimal change for women's place in society.
What is obedience to her husband and childbearing?
400
Serfs that survived the plague were rewarded with this, due to the high demand for their labor.
What are higher wages or better pay?
400
This intellectual movement sought to create model citizens by studying grammar, poetry, philosophy, and history.
What is humanism?
400
This family controlled the city-state of Florence behind the scenes for much of the Renaissance.
Who are the Medicis?
400
English King who broke with the Roman Catholic Church and made himself head of the Church of England after the Roman Catholic Church's refusal to annul his marriage.
Who is Henry VIII?
400
This religious group took a vow of obedience to the Pope and helped restore Catholicism to parts of Germany and spread it to other parts of the world.
Who were the Jesuits?
500
Although difficult to determine, historians have placed the death toll of the Black Death to be somewhere around this number.
What is 25 million?
500
This preacher took control of Florence from the Medici family for a period of roughly 60 years.
Who is Savonarola?
500
These three city states played key roles in Italian Renaissance politics.
What are Florence, Milan, and Venice?
500
Radical Protestant sect that believed in the complete separation of church and state, and that the state had no authority over Christians. They refused to hold political office or bear arms.
Who are the Anabaptists?
500
Founded the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits.