Renaissance People Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Renaissance means _____________ | rebirth |
City that was the birthplace of the Renaissance | Florence |
Ancient civilizations that served as inspiration for the Renaissance | Greek and Roman |
Movement that gave rise to the Renaissance; it focused on human ability and beauty | Humanism |
Word that means "worldly"...separated from religion | Secular |
Family that ruled Florence, used their money to support the arts | Medici |
Wrote a book for the etiquette of a perfect "Renaissance" person...says you have to be good at everything | Castiglione |
Believed that the sun, not the earth was the center of the universe, published it in a book, but said it was just a theory | Copernicus |
Wrote a political guide book on how to get and keep power; ignored morality and focused on reality | Machiavelli |
Book written by Machiavelli | The Prince |
Invention that helped spread the ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation | Printing press |
Person who invented the printing press | Gutenberg |
After perfecting the telescope, he discovered things about the universe that led to him being put on trial for proclaiming a sun-centered universe. | Galileo |
Playwright who analyzed mankind by using universal themes; excellent use of the English language | Shakespeare |
Wrote Hamlet, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare |
Formulated the first Germ theory of the Modern Age | Fracastoro |
Disproved medieval medical theories by dissecting human corpses. | Vesalius |
Playwright who analyzed mankind by using universal themes; excellent use of the English language | Shakespeare |
Wrote Hamlet, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet | Geocentric |
Language that is native to a particular to an area or region | Vernacular |
Word that means "sun-centered' | Heliocentric |
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