early modern europe

Question 1

Italian peninsula

Answer 1

is a peninsula extending from the southern Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south.

Question 2

The Medici Family

Answer 2

a prestigious Italian banking family and political dynasty who held great power in Florence from the 15th to the 18th century.

Question 3

Florence

Answer 3

Florence, capital of Italy’s Tuscany region, is home to many masterpieces of Renaissance art and architecture.

Question 4

Humanism

Answer 4

Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.

Question 5

Thomas Aquinas

Answer 5

Thomas Aquinas OP was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily.

Question 6

Renaissance

Answer 6

period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages.

Question 7

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 7

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.

Question 8

Michaelangelo

Answer 8

A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence.

Question 9

Systems of Patronage

Answer 9

Political patronage is the appointment or hiring of a person to a government post on the basis of partisan loyalty.

Question 10

The Printing Press

Answer 10

machine by which text and images are transferred from movable type to paper or other media by means of ink.

Question 11

Martin Luther/The 95 Theses

Answer 11

propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences,

Question 12

Protestant Reformation

Answer 12

a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.

Question 13

Henry VIII/The Church of England/Mary I

Answer 13

Mary was the only surviving child of Henry VIII by his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

Question 14

St. Ignatius/Jesuits/Council of Trent

Answer 14

the founder of the Jesuit Order.

Question 15

Elizabeth I/Spanish Armada

Answer 15

Queen Elizabeth I put Lord Howard of Effingham in charge of England’s defence against the Spanish Armada.

Question 16

Tudor Dynasty

Answer 16

House of Tudor was an English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of England from 1485 to 1603.

Question 17

Heliocentric Theory

Answer 17

a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System.

Question 18

Geocentric Theory

Answer 18

the structure of the solar system (or the universe) in which Earth is assumed to be at the center of it all.