Geography
There are this many continents on Earth.
What is Seven?
This deadly disease killed millions in Europe between 1347–1351.
What is the Black Death (or bubonic plague)?
The word “Renaissance” means this.
What is rebirth?
This family used banking wealth to turn Florence into a center of Renaissance culture.
Who is The Medici Family?
This invention helped spread new ideas quickly across Europe.
What is the Printing Press?
A drawing of Earth’s surface on a flat piece of paper is called this.
What is a map?
These medieval “holy wars,” started centuries earlier, influenced trade and cultural contact.
What are the Crusades?
The Renaissance began in this European country.
What is Italy?
He was a true renaissance man, he was a painter, sculptor, inventor and Engineer.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
These fortified buildings were designed to protect people during attacks — and sometimes had moats to keep enemies away.
What are Castles?
This imaginary line, located at 0° latitude, divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
What is the Equator?
A self-contained farming community on a lord’s estate.
What is a Manor?
This movement focused on human potential and achievements.
What is Humanism?
This English scholar argued that the Bible should be translated into English so everyone could read it.
Who is John Wycliffe?
This giant, beautiful type of church had stained glass windows and pointed arches.
What is a Cathedral
The lines that run east and west are called these.
What are lines of latitude?
Most people in the Middle Ages were what class?
Who are peasants or serfs?
The Renaissance period began in this century, marking the start of cultural and intellectual rebirth.
What is the 14th century?
This French teenager became a hero by inspiring French troops to victory.
Who is Joan of Arc?
Who was Eleanor of Aquitaine, and why was she influential?
She was a powerful noblewoman and queen of both France and England who promoted culture and politics.
The line that divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This term describes the time period roughly from 500–1000 CE after the fall of Rome.
What is the Early Middle Ages?
Renaissance scientists believed in learning through observation and experiments.
What is the scientific method?
Who signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
Who is King John?
Being expelled from the Church and cut off from the sacraments was known as what?
What is excommunication?