European Renaissance Essentials

Name as many iconic people and works as you can!

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Hint	Answer
Author of "The Prince"	Machiavelli
Created the Church of England	King Henry VIII
Mechanical Printing Press	Gutenberg
Masterminded the 1st Circumnavigation	Magellan
Legend says he came to Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth	ponce de leon
His plays filled the Globe Theater	William Shakespeare
the Mona Lisa artist, inventor, mirror-writer	daVinci
Sistine Chapel's ceiling artist	michelangelo
School of Athens artist	raphael
Brunelleschi made a famous...	dome
Led French to victory in 100 Years' War	Joan of Arc
Re-discovered Cicero's letters and got people interested in the "Classics"	Petrarch
Wrote Don Quixote	Cervantes
Theory of Gravity	Newton
Country where the European renaissance began	italy
Invented a telescope, proved Copernicus' theories	Galileo
Started a school for sailing and navigation	Prince Henry the Navigator
Wealthy family "funded" renaissance artists and others	Medici
Miguel Cervantes wrote about this "knight"	don quixote
Pirate, hired by Elizabeth 1, defeated Spanish Armada	Sir Frances Drake
Christopher Columbus sailed for..	Spain
America is named for...	Amerigo Vespucci

Hint	Answer
Charted Latitude and Longitude on a map	Mercator
Reached America, but thought it was India	Columbus
Was known as "the Virgin Queen" and never married	Elizabeth I
Values individuality, logic, and human potential	Humanism
Discovered the patterns of planetary motion	Kepler
Wrote about "the Inferno"	Dante
Catarina van Hemmessen painted herself, at the...	easel
French word for "rebirth"	renaissance
The culture of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece is called...	classical
People started publishing in the languages they actually spoke instead of...	latin
people wanted to get to Asia to get these expensive items...	spices
He wrote about his travels across Asia and the Silk Road	Marco Polo
Posted a list of 95 complaints about the Church and started reforms	Martin Luther
Painters started using these lines to make their work look more "3d"	perspective
Gutenberg made the	printing press
Thomas More invented this term for a perfect society	utopia
Joan of Arc helped France win this war	100 Years
Michelangelo painted this ceiling	Sistine Chapel
He proposed the Sun is the center of the universe (Heliocentric)	Copernicus
Famous for the Scientific Method that changed how we do science	Bacon
Cortes and Pizarro claimed Central and South America for this country	Spain
First European to find a route to India by sea	de Gama

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