Unit 10: Quiz 2 Flashcards
Which two countries fought in the Hundred Years’ War?
France and England
In which Italian city did the Medici family have power?
Florence
_________ led the French to victory in battle and was later burned at the stake by the English.
Joan d’Arc
What does the word Renaissance mean?
rebirth
“father of humanism”
Petrarch
The Praise of Folly
Erasmus
Don Quixote
Cervantes
Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo
Mona Lisa
da Vinci
invented movable type printing press
Gutenberg
Utopia
Sir Thomas More
“father of political science”
Machiavelli
greatest figure in English literature
Shakespeare
a monk who satirized medieval institutions
Rabelais
All of the following were types of architecture seen among the great buildings of the Renaissance
Romanesque, Gothic, Byzantine
A famous Renaissance artist who also built canals and towns was
da Vinci
__________ showed that the sun, rather than the earth, is the center of our solar system.
Copercanicus
Both Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton wrote laws concerning
gravity