What country was the birthplace of the Renaissance and why? (must haveAt least 2 specific examples)
$200 Answer Renaissance
Italy•Center of trade•No feudalism
•City states•Mercantile class patroned arts•Legacy of Roman empire
$300 Question Renaissance
What was the renaissance a “rebirth” of?
$300 Answer Renaissance
Ideas and advancements of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
$400 Question Renaissance
In what way did the Black plague contribute to theRise of the Renaissance?
$400 Answer Renaissance
$500 Question Renaissance
What were 3 major differencesBetween the Renaissance and the Middle Ages?
$500 Answer Renaissance
$100 Question Reformation
What are indulgences?
$100 Answer Reformation
Payment in exchange for forgivenessOf sins
$200 Question Reformation
Who posted 95 theses on the Wittenburg Chapel door in protestOf the abuses of the Pope and the church?
$200 Answer Reformation
Martin Luther
$300 Question Reformation
What were 2 abuses of the churchProtested by Martin Luther?
$300 Answer Reformation
Under trained clergySelling of indulgencesAbuse of power by the Pope
$400 Question Reformation
Which reformer set up a theocracyIn Geneva Switzerland calling it a “City on a hill”
$400 Answer Reformation
John Calvin
$500 Question Reformation
What is one major difference betweenThe beliefs of Martin Luther andThe beliefs of John Calvin?
$500 Answer Reformation
Calvin’s belief in Predestination
$100 Question Age of Exploration
Which country was the first to Attempt to discover a sea route to India?
$100 Answer Age of Exploration
The Portuguese
$200 Question Age of Exploration
Briefly explain Columbus’s theoryThat led him to North America
$200 Answer Age of Exploration
$300 Question Age of Exploration
What were the three motivating factorsFor explorers? (3 Gs)
$300 Answer Age of Exploration
GodGoldGlory
$400 Question Age of Exploration
Whose crew was the first to succesfullyCircumnavigate the globe?
$400 Answer Age of Exploration
Ferdinand Magellan
$500 Question Age of Exploration
What were 2 causes of the Age of Exploration?
$500 Answer Age of Exploration
•Scientific Advancements of Renaissance
•Crusades
•1453 Constantinople falls to Ottoman TurksClosing the land route to India
$100 Question Scientific Revolution
From where did Europeans borrow muchOf the ideas that started the Scientific Revolution?
$100 Answer Scientific Revolution
The Islamic cultures
$200 Question Scientific Revolution
Which scientist was the first to discoverThat the earth was not the center of the universe
$200 Answer Scientific Revolution
Nicolaus Copernicus
$300 Question Scientific Revolution
Which scientist proved Copernicus’sTheories to be true?
$300 Answer Scientific Revolution
Johannes Kepler
$400 Question Scientific Revolution
Which scientist discovered thatMoving objects accelerate at aMathematically predictable rate and Invented his own telescope to view theMoon and planets but was put on house Arrest for challenging the teachings of theChurch.
$400 Answer Scientific Revolution
Galileo Galilei
$500 Question Scientific Revolution
Which scientists came up with the ideas for the Scientific method?
$500 Answer Scientific Revolution
Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon
$100 Question The Enlightenment
What are our 3 natural rights as Described by John Locke
$100 Answer The Enlightenment
Life, Liberty, pursuit of property
$200 Question The Enlightenment
What is Laissez Faire Economics?
$200 Answer The Enlightenment
Hands off! The idea that government should have no hand or control over business
$300 Question The Enlightenment
Which philosopher came up with the Idea of dividing the power of Government into three different Branches so that no one branchWould become too powerful?
$300 Answer The Enlightenment
Baron De Montesquieu
$400 Question The Enlightenment
What was Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Contribution to the Enlightenment?
$400 Answer The Enlightenment
Social contract- government existsOnly by permission of the people
$500 Question The Enlightenment
Which Enlightenment thinker did notBelieve Democracy would benefit Society?
$500 Answer from H5
Voltaire
Final Jeopardy
Which Renaissance artist painted the Sistine Chapel?