Renaissance Unit Test

A mathematics professor and astronomer, _________, used the Leaning Tower of Pisa to test the laws of gravity.

Leonardo da Vinci died and was buried in which European city?

Wrote a book called The Prince; argued leaders should NOT try to be good but instead do whatever necessary to keep power

This queen wished to return the Catholic Church to England. She arrested many Protestants; burned 300 people at stake.

The greatest English writer during the Renaissance; wrote "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet."

Michelangelo painted which of the following?

During the Age of Exploration, the first European to sail west searching for a water route to Asia was ______.

The man who traveled to China and wrote a book about his trip.

Renaissance art that was painted directly onto plastered walls and ceilings were called

The most important and influential cities of the Renaissance were _____ and _____.

Who published a book claiming the earth moved around the sun and rotated?

To divorce one wife and marry another, __________ broke away from the Catholic Church and created the Church of England.

During the Renaissance, there was a rebirth in _________.

The rich banking family from Florence.

Renaissance painters used _______ to make their works look three-dimensional.

The belief that the individual and human society are important.

The events that led to Protestantism.

The young monk who challenged the Catholic Church by writing his Ninety-Five Theses.

The first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa and reach India was ________.

Greek and Roman myths that became dramas et to music are called ________?

Developed the printing press.

Due to the break with the Catholic Church, many branches of Protestant Christianity, called ________, were created.

Writers began to write in the ______, the everyday language of a region.

Calvinists believed in predestination. What does this mean?

The Reformation was dominated by wars between _________ and _________.

Period from approximately 1350 to 1550 in Europe means "rebirth."

During the Age of Exploration, the expedition to sail complete around the world was led by ________.

Because of Italy's long coastlines, Italian city-states became wealthy though _________.

One of the best scientists and artists of the Renaissance; painted the Mona Lisa.

The pope sold __________, or reductions in punishment in purgatory, to get money to build St. Peter's Basilica.

An artist, poet, architect, and sculptor during the Renaissance; carved the famous statue of David.