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