Europe: Renaissance and Enlightenment

What does "Renaissance" mean?

• Redo

• Rebirth

• Reclaim

• Report

What is humanism?

• The celebration of the extraordinary capabilities of mankind

• The celebration of the glory and power of God

• The idea that humans are simply another animal inhabiting our planet

• None of the above

Indulgences were payments people had to make in order to be forgiven for their sins.

• True

• False

What would be an example of humanism?

• A stained glass window depicting the nativity

• The Holy Bible

• A detailed statue of a man

• A play on Greek mythology

The is the theory that the sun is the center of our system and all of the planets revolve around it.

• helocentric

• geocentric

The is the process of discovery by testing a variable.

• heliocentric model

• Copernican method

• Newtonian method

• Scientific method

This man was put on trial by the Inquisition for proving the heliocentric model correct with his telescope.

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Nicholas Copernicus

• Francisco Redi

This man invented the printing press.

• Isaac Newton

• Martin Luther

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Henry VIII

This man started the church of England in order to divorce his wife and marry another.

• Henry VIII

• Philip II

• Martin Luther

• William Tyndale

He successfully helped fight off the Spanish Armada, and then a storm destroyed most of it before it could counter-attack.

• Phillip II

• Francis Drake

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Louis XVI