Social Studies 8 - Chapter 4 Review

Thinkers like Da Vinci believed religion was the basic tool for understanding the universe.

This person/inventor developed the printing press that allowed books to be produced quickly.

Many early humanists taught at Italian universities.

First discovered that Earth is a planet that moves around the Sun.

What does heresy mean?

Which one of these people was German?

A German monk, who was critical of the Church's wealth and selling of indulgences.

He/she rediscovered the theory of perspective in art.

Built telescopes and viewed the surface of the moon.

Which one of these people was a woman?

Galileo was charged with which of the following:

This person was a Dominican monk who fought corruption in the Church and was guilty of heresy.

Discovered the elliptical orbits of planets.

He was a French king, whose court became a center of learning.

Many people were threatened by the new theories presented by Galileo.

Machiavelli's “The Prince” became one of the most controversial/influential books ever written.

This person became a strong, effective government leader who listened to his/her subjects.

This artist painted the "Allegory of Good Government" and "Allegory of Bad Government".

This person dissected bodies and made detailed drawings of them.

Machiavelli was a(n)...

Isabella D’Este was married to which of the following:

Name three famous astronomers

Who is had the right answer to where the sun actually was?

Andreus Vesalius was a professor at which university?

The technique of representing objects in paintings as they appear to the eye, is called:

Attitudes towards science changed during the Renaissance.

A work where the characters and events are meant to be understood as representing other things

Martin Luther made these:

The science that deals with the structure of the human body is called:

This person invented the 'personal essay'.