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European Renaissance Essentials

Name as many iconic people and works as you can!
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Author of "The Prince"
Machiavelli
Created the Church of England
King Henry VIII
Mechanical Printing Press
Gutenberg
Masterminded the 1st Circumnavigation
Magellan
Legend says he came to Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth
ponce de leon
His plays filled the Globe Theater
William Shakespeare
the Mona Lisa artist, inventor, mirror-writer
daVinci
Sistine Chapel's ceiling artist
michelangelo
School of Athens artist
raphael
Brunelleschi made a famous...
dome
Led French to victory in 100 Years' War
Joan of Arc
Re-discovered Cicero's letters and got people interested in the "Classics"
Petrarch
Wrote Don Quixote
Cervantes
Theory of Gravity
Newton
Country where the European renaissance began
italy
Invented a telescope, proved Copernicus' theories
Galileo
Started a school for sailing and navigation
Prince Henry the Navigator
Wealthy family "funded" renaissance artists and others
Medici
Miguel Cervantes wrote about this "knight"
don quixote
Pirate, hired by Elizabeth 1, defeated Spanish Armada
Sir Frances Drake
Christopher Columbus sailed for..
Spain
America is named for...
Amerigo Vespucci
Charted Latitude and Longitude on a map
Mercator
Reached America, but thought it was India
Columbus
Was known as "the Virgin Queen" and never married
Elizabeth I
Values individuality, logic, and human potential
Humanism
Discovered the patterns of planetary motion
Kepler
Wrote about "the Inferno"
Dante
Catarina van Hemmessen painted herself, at the...
easel
French word for "rebirth"
renaissance
The culture of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece is called...
classical
People started publishing in the languages they actually spoke instead of...
latin
people wanted to get to Asia to get these expensive items...
spices
He wrote about his travels across Asia and the Silk Road
Marco Polo
Posted a list of 95 complaints about the Church and started reforms
Martin Luther
Painters started using these lines to make their work look more "3d"
perspective
Gutenberg made the
printing press
Thomas More invented this term for a perfect society
utopia
Joan of Arc helped France win this war
100 Years
Michelangelo painted this ceiling
Sistine Chapel
He proposed the Sun is the center of the universe (Heliocentric)
Copernicus
Famous for the Scientific Method that changed how we do science
Bacon
Cortes and Pizarro claimed Central and South America for this country
Spain
First European to find a route to India by sea
de Gama
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