This place was the origin point of the Renaissance.
What are the Italian city-states?
100
This scientist introduced the heliocentric theory (earth goes around the sun).
Who is Copernicus?
100
The Reformation produced a split in Europe -- much of northern Europe became Protestant, while most of southern Europe remained ______.
What is Catholic?
200
This sculptor of LA PIETA was actually multi-talented, and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, too.
Who is Michelangelo?
200
Officials from this place dominated the Roman Catholic Church, and German and British people hated it.
What is Italy?
200
This invention by Gutenberg helped spread the ideas of Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution thinkers.
What is the printing press?
200
At this meeting, Catholic church officials "fought back" against the Protestant threat by confirming Catholic doctrine and asking priests to reform their behavior.
What is the Council of Trent?
300
This book made humanist Erasmus famous.
What is In Praise of Folly?
300
Sale of these was one of the biggest complaints about the Roman Catholic Church.
What are indulgences?
300
This British scientist worked on theories about gravity.
Who was Isaac Newton?
300
German princes were allowed to choose whether to be Protestant or Catholic because of an agreement with the Holy Roman Emperor known as _______.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
400
Kepler's laws are a set of scientific theories about ____.
What is planetary motion?
400
These were French Protestants first persecuted, then protected by the Edict of Nantes.
Who were the Huguenots?
500
This philosophy involves attention to what is observable with your own eyes, not just to what the church teaches.
What is humanism?
500
This practice of lending money with interest appealed to lots of businessmen in the 1400s, but the Roman Catholic Church didn't like it. The issue became an arguing point during the Reformation.
What is usury?
500
Galileo improved upon this invention and used it to observe first-hand the ideas of his predecessor, Copernicus.
What is the telescope?
500
This war started out as a fight between Protestants and Catholics, but Cardinal Richelieu of France made it more into a war about power and territory.