Renaissance Test
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| Florence | A city-state in Italy during the Renaissance. The Medici family was the richest family in the city.
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| Isaac Newton | an English physicist and mathematician who developed the theory of Gravity.
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| Johann Gutenberg | a German blacksmith who invented the printing press
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| Leonardo da Vinci | a Renaissance artist, sculptor, anatomist, engineer, architect, mathematician, inventor, and writer who painted pictures like the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper
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| Machiavelli | an Italian politician who wrote guides for rulers on how to gain and maintain power.
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| Copernicus | a mathematician and astronomer who formulated the heliocentric theory
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| Predestination | the doctrine that God knew who was going to be saved before the beginning of time
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| Sect | a group of people with different religious beliefs from those of a larger group to which they belong
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| Antibaptists believed that infants should not be baptized because | they believed that the person being baptized should be able to make their own confessions of faith
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| Humanist scholars differed from medieval thinkers in that humanists | they studied worldly subjects rather than religious issues
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| In the 1600s, Robert Boyle's work transformed the field of | chemistry
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| In the Scientific Method, a hypothesis is a | a proposed explanation of a phenomenon
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| Many scholars agree that between 1450 and 1750, people's beliefs in both Christianity and magic led to | the belief in witches or agents of the devil
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| One way that Renaissance artists reflected the new ideas of humanism was by painting | in perspective
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| Sir Thomas Moore was executed because | he was convicted of High Treason
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| The age of great change marked by renewed interest in classical learning and the arts is called | The Reniassance
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| The calculations of astronomer Johannes Kepler showed that | planets do revolve around the sun although not in a perfect circle
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| The inventor who perfected the microscope and was the first person to see cells and microorganisms was | Anton van Leewenhook
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| The Last supper and the Mona Lisa were the work of the great artist | Leonardo da Vinci
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| The main goal of the Jesuits was to | Spread the Catholic church and its ideals
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| The purpose of the Council of Trent was to | To reaffirm the Catholic ideals and establish the direction in which the church would progress
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| The Swiss city-state of Geneva became a model of Protestant morality under the leadership of | John Calvin
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| Today's Baptists, Mennonites, and Amish can all trace their religious ancestry to the | Anabaptists
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| Unlike Francis Bacon, René Descartes believed that the best road to understanding through | Human Reasoning
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| What changes did the Catholic Church make during the Catholic Reformation? | Reaffirmed that the Bible is a source of truth but not the only source of truth, Provided penalties for worldliness and corruption, and established school
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| What humanist of northern Europe wrote about his vision of an ideal society, in which people live in peace and harmony? | Sir Thomas More
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| What major theme of the northern Renaissance did Albert Dürer's engravings portray? | Religious Upheavel
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| What resulted from the Peace of Ausburg in 1555? | German Princes could chose their own religion that their provinces had to follow, thus creating separation between Germany
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| What triggered the events that resulted in the formation of the Church of England? | Henry wanted to divorce his wife Catherine, but the Pope would not allow him to, so he created a church very similar to the Catholic Church, but the King was the head of the Church
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| Describe the ideal woman according to writer Baldassarre Castiglione. | Beautiful, graceful, kind, lively but reserved
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| Who assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts preserving the works of Cicero, Homer, and Virgil? | Francesco Petrarch
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| Who described architecture as a "social art" meant to combine beauty with utility and improvement of society? | Leon Alberti
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