NAME THAT MOVEMENT
This movement means “rebirth” and revived interest in classical Greek and Roman learning.
What is the Renaissance?
This invention helped spread Renaissance ideas to many more people.
What is the printing press?
People who protested against practices of the Catholic Church became known by this name.
Who were Protestants?
These two thinkers helped develop the scientific method.
Who were René Descartes and Francis Bacon?
This Enlightenment philosopher believed that people have basic rights and that government should protect them.
Who was John Locke?
This movement focused on studying the natural world through observation rather than relying only on religious interpretation.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This wealthy Italian family helped Renaissance art and learning grow by financially supporting writers and artists.
Who were the Medici family?
This man criticized the Catholic Church and helped begin the Protestant Reformation.
Who was Martin Luther?
This scientist developed a system for classifying plants and animals.
Who was Carl Linnaeus?
This economist believed the economy worked best when people were largely left to pursue their own interests.
Who was Adam Smith?
This movement used human reason to think about how society and government could be improved.
What is the Enlightenment?
This Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who was Michelangelo?
Martin Luther wrote this famous list of complaints against practices of the Catholic Church.
What are the Ninety-Five Theses?
These two scientists helped explain that the sun—not Earth—is at the center of the solar system.
Who were Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei?
Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau supported this type of government rather than a powerful religious or absolute monarch.
What is limited government based on the will of the people?
This movement began as an attempt to correct problems and corruption in the Catholic Church.
What is the Reformation?
This artist, engineer, and inventor is famous for painting the Mona Lisa.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This English king started a new church after the Catholic Church would not allow him to divorce.
Bonus if you want: In what country?
Who was Henry VIII?
Bonus Answer: England.
This scientist explained laws of gravity and motion.
Who was Isaac Newton?
The Scientific Revolution influenced the Enlightenment by encouraging people to use this human ability to understand and improve society.
What is reason?
This belief emphasized the dignity, worth, and importance of each individual person.
What is humanism?
Give all three reasons for why the Renaissance began in Italy.
Name the meeting at which Catholic Church leaders made reforms in response to Protestantism.
What was the Council of Trent?
During the Middle Ages, Europeans were generally more interested in this kind of understanding than in scientific understanding.
What is religious understanding?
Name four effects of the Enlightenment