Chapter 1

Question 1

Sect

Answer 1

a religious group that has broken away from an established church

Question 2

Theocracy

Answer 2

a government run by religious leaders

Question 3

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 3

an artist who made sketches of flying machines centuries before the first aiplane

Question 4

Nicolaus Copernicus

Answer 4

proposed a heliocentric model of the universe

Question 5

Niccoló Machiavelli

Answer 5

wrote a guide for rulers on how to gain and keep power

Question 6

What was the age marked by great change marked by renewed interest in classical learning and the arts?

Answer 6

The Renaissance

Question 7

The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa were the works of what great artist

Answer 7

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 8

The calculations of Johannes Kepler showed that __________

Answer 8

the planets move around the sun in oval orbits

Question 9

Many scholars agree that between 1450 and 1750 people’s beliefs in both Christianity and magic led to _____

Answer 9

the persecution of people as witches

Question 10

In the scientific method, a hypothesis is a _______

Answer 10

possible explanation to be tested