The Renaissance
The Renaissance began in this Italian city.
What is Florence?
This German monk started the Protestant Reformation by criticizing the Catholic Church.
Who was Martin Luther?
According to Isaac Newton, this force explains why objects are pulled toward Earth.
What is gravity?
The Enlightenment is often called this because thinkers valued logic and reasoning.
What is the Age of Reason?
This magical place in Ms. Phan's classroom stored extra Chromebooks and chargers.
What is "The Fridge"?
This powerful banking family from Florence sponsored artists and helped the Renaissance grow.
Who were the Medici family?
These were payments made to the Catholic Church in exchange for forgiveness of sins.
What are indulgences?
This scientist used a telescope to observe planets and supported the heliocentric theory.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
John Locke believed all people were born with these basic freedoms.
What are natural rights?
This sound meant it was time to stop talking and pay attention in class.
What is the singing bowl?
This artist painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This invention helped spread Reformation ideas quickly throughout Europe.
What is the printing press?
This theory refers to the idea that the Sun is at the center of the solar system.
What is the heliocentric theory?
This thinker believed government power should be divided into separate branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
Throughout the year, students were expected to support their ideas using this in discussions and writing.
What is evidence and/or reasoning?
Renaissance thinkers were inspired by the ideas of these two ancient civilizations.
What are Ancient Greece and Rome?
This movement was the Catholic Church’s response to the Protestant Reformation.
What was the Counter-Reformation?
This scientist discovered that planets moved in elliptical orbits.
This Enlightenment thinker supported freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Who was Voltaire?
This classroom routine asked students to reflect on their understanding of the learning target and score themselves from 1–4.
What is the Learning Target Journal (LTJ)?
This Renaissance idea encouraged people to focus more on worldly life instead of only religion.
What is secularism?
King Henry VIII created this new branch of Christianity after separating from the Catholic Church.
What is the Anglican Church?
These are the sequential steps of the scientific method.
What are Observation --> Hypothesis --> Experiment --> Analysis --> Conclusion?
This thinker believed governments should reflect the will of the people.
Who was Rousseau?
This is the most important thing students should take away from 7th-grade history.
Acceptable answers are up to Ms. Phan!