6th Grade Social Studies Chapter 13
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| Who was the inventor of the telescope? | Galileo Galilei
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| What movement gave rise to the Protestant churches? | reformation
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| Who controlled many trade routes to Asia and Constantinople? | Ottoman Turks
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| What monarch made England a sea power by supporting pirates? | Elizabeth I
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| Who was the mathematician who showed that the Earth revolves around the Sun? | Nicolas Copernicus
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| Who invented movable type and thus made books more affordable? | Johannes Gutenberg
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| Who wrote many plays and poems that we still study today? He was also sponsored by Elizabeth I. | William Shakespeare
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| Who was the first Spanish explorer to sail around the world? | Ferdinand Magellan
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| Who was the Portuguese explorer to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, Africa? | Vasco da Gama
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| Who was the American continent named for? This man who was a map maker. | Amerigo Vespucci
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| Who was the English explorer who sailed along the northeast coast of North America? | John Cabot
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| Who was a great Renaissance artist, inventor, scientist, philosopher, and writer? | Leonardo da Vinci
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| Who is the explorer who first landed on the island of San Salvador in the Caribbean Sea? | Christopher Columbus
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| Who wrote a book explaining how gravity holds things to Earth? | Isaac Newton
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| What is the general name given to churches that were formed as a result of protests against the Roman Catholic Churh? | Protestant
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| Where did many of the ideas of the Renaissance come from? | Greeks and Romans
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| Who made the statue of David, designed the dome of St. Peter's in Rome, and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo
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| What was the reason for Martin Luther beginning his protests against the Roman Catholic Church? | Pope Leo X's sale of indulgences
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| What is the type of technology the Spanish used to try to defeat the English in the war over trade? | armada
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| Name the plan of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand to unite their kingdoms and drive out the Moors? | Reconquista
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| Instead of focusing on God and faith, the Renaissance thinkers focused on what? | individualism
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| Who united England by marrying the niece of his enemy, seizing power from other nobles, and getting the middle class to help him? | King Henry VII
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| What two European countries led the exploration across the Atlantic Ocean? | Spain & Portugal
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| What name is given to the people who made the Renaissance possible by giving money to help artists and thinkers? | patrons
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| Martin Luther posted these complaints against the church, what are they called? | 95 Theses
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| Pope Leo X sold these to pay for the building of St. Peter's Church and promised people forgiveness of sins current and future, what were they called? | indulgences
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| What is the name given to this era of thought, learning, art, and science that began in Italy and marked the end of the Middle Ages? | Renaissance
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| Who was the pope who caused many problems in the Catholic Church because he was a patron of the art and he sold indulgences to pay for this? | Pope Leo X
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