Renaissance
This word means “rebirth” and names the period of renewed interest in art and learning.
What is Renaissance?
These were payments believed to reduce punishment for sins.
What are indulgences?
This step-by-step process relies on observation and experimentation.
What is the scientific method?
Renaissance artists used this to make people and objects look lifelike.
This artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This writer is known for plays such as Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This system involved wealthy families funding artists and thinkers.
What is patronage?
Many critics accused the Church of this problem in the 1500s.
What is corruption?
This theory placed the sun at the center of the universe.
What is heliocentrism?
This new way of thinking encouraged inventing, experimenting, and improving old ideas.
What is innovation?
This sculptor created David.
Who is Michelangelo?
This German monk challenged Church practices in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
This invention allowed ideas to spread faster and cheaper than ever before.
What is printing press?
This new branch of Christianity formed during the Reformation.
What is Protestantism?
This skill became more important than tradition in science.
What is observation?
This word means “not related to religion.”
What is secular?
This inventor helped spread Renaissance ideas with movable type.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
This English king broke away from the Catholic Church to form the Church of England.
Who is Henry VIII?
This belief focused on human potential and classical education.
What is humanism?
The Reformation started with this document.
What is the Ninety-Five Theses?
Scientists increasingly relied on this instead of faith.
What is reason?
This idea promoted studying ancient Greek and Roman models.
What is classicalism?
This artist painted The School of Athens.
(Mr. Bormann's favorite Renaissance painting!)
Who is Raphael?
This reformer believed in predestination.
Who is John Calvin?
This change meant more people outside the Church could read and learn.
What is literacy?
This was the major religious outcome in Europe after the Reformation.
What is religious division?
Scientists believed the universe operated according to these.
What are natural laws?
During the Renaissance, rulers used art, architecture, and wealth to show and strengthen this.
What is power?
This thinker wrote The Prince about political power.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
This Catholic group was founded to stop the spread of Protestantism.
What is the Society of Jesus? (Jesuits)