early modern Europe

Question 1

Italian Peninsula

Answer 1

a boot-shaped peninsula jutting from the Alps into the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Tyrrhenian Sea

Question 2

The Medici Family

Answer 2

a powerful and influential Florentine family from the 13th to the 17th century.

Question 3

Florence

Answer 3

were the Italian renaissance began

Question 4

Humanism

Answer 4

System of education and mode of inquiry

Question 5

Renaissance

Answer 5

a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of classical learning and wisdom.

Question 6

Thomas Aquinas

Answer 6

an Italian Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism

Question 7

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 7

an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who excelled in various fields of art and science

Question 8

Michaelangelo

Question 9

The system of patronage

Answer 9

a system of personal ties and networks in which a patron or superior offered protection and support to an inferior or client, who owed him loyalty and service in return

Question 10

The Printing Press

Answer 10

a mechanical device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter, mainly text in the form of books, pamphlets and newspapers

Question 10

Martin Luther/The 95 Theses

Answer 10

Martin Luther was a professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg and town preacher1. He wrote the Ninety-five Theses against the contemporary practice of the church with respect to indulgences1. The Ninety-five Theses were propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences, written (in Latin) and possibly posted by Martin Luther on the door of the Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Wittenberg, on October 31, 1517

Question 11

Protestant Reformation

Answer 11

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation,[1] was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church

Question 12

St. Ignatius/Jesuits/Council of Trent

Answer 12

the Ignatius was a Spanish theologian and mystic.

Question 13

Henry VIII/The Church of England/Mary I

Answer 13

Henry VIII was the king of England. the church was an English national church that traces its history back to the arrival of Christianity in Britain during the 2nd century. and Mary was the queen of England.

Question 14

Elizabeth I/Spanish Armada

Answer 14

was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. was a large naval fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England

Question 15

Tudor Dynasty

Answer 15

The Tudor dynasty was a series of monarchs that ruled England and Ireland from 1485 until 1603

Question 16

Heliocentric Theory

Answer 16

a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe.