Renaissance
The French word meaning "rebirth."
What is the Renaissance?
The name of Mathin Luther's followers.
What are Lutherans?
A step-by-step process based on careful observation and testing of data.
What is the Scientific Method?
The French word for Enlightenment thinkers.
What are philosophes?
English playwright regarded as the greatest writer in the English language; famous for Hamlet and Julius Caesar.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The Renaissance began to flourish after this event that wiped out millions of people.
What is the Black Death?
A way for Christians to be forgiven of their sins through payment.
A theory supported by the Catholic Church explaining that the Earth was at the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric theory?
A three-part system of government created by Baron de Montesquieu, divided into executive, judicial, and legislative branches.
What is the separation of powers?
An Italian scientist who observed the sky with a new invention, the telescope, and believed in the heliocentric theory.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
An art technique that gave visual depth and realism to a piece, differing from medieval art (stiff and two-dimensional).
What is perspective?
Christians who protested and moved away from the Catholic Church.
What are Protestants?
A book published by Issac Newton explaining the laws of gravity and motion.
What is the Principia?
A book written by Thomas Hobbes explaining how people are inherently selfish and that governments are created to make decisions that are best for society as a whole.
What is Leviathan?
A Renaissance artist who emphasized balance and composition, their greatest work being the "School of Athens."
Who was Raphael?
A Renaissance philosophy emphasizing the worth of the individual and balancing religious faith with secular learning.
What is humanism?
A movement to revive and defend Catholicism in response to the Reformation.
What is the Counter-Reformation?
The man who first came up with the heliocentric theory, but his work was largely ignored at the time.
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
Monarchs like Catherine the Great embraced reform ideas in education and social warfare.
Who were enlightened monarchs?
The head of the Catholic Church demanded that Martin Luther needed to retract his teachings; Luther was excommunicated.
Who was Pope Leo X?
The place where William Shakespeare's plays were performed in.
What is the Globe Theater?
A recognized autonomous branch of the Christian Church.
What is denomination?
A Greek thinker who wrote about astronomy.
Who was Ptolemy?
"It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."
Who was Adam Smith?
A Czech preacher who attacked the corruption of the Catholic Church; later burnt at the stake for heresy in 1415.
Who was Jan Hus?