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Renaissance/Reformation/Discovery

Quiz by Giotto, John

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  • Q1
    The model where planets revolve around the sun:
    Heliocentric Theory
    30s
  • Q2
    What Galileo used to prove the Heliocentric Theory:
    Telescope
    30s
  • Q3
    A famous writer during the reign of the Tudor, Queen Elizabeth in England:
    Shakespeare
    30s
  • Q4
    An improvement in technology by Johannes Gutenberg, which helped spread the message of Martin Luther quickly:
    Moveable type printing press
    30s
  • Q5
    Complaints Martin Luther posted about the Roman Catholic Church:
    95 theses
    30s
  • Q6
    Henry VIII made himself head of the English Church because the Pope refused to grant him this:
    a Divorce
    30s
  • Q7
    Martin Luther, the father of the Protestant Reformation, was against the Catholic Church's selling of these:
    Indulgences
    30s
  • Q8
    Who discovered the forces of gravity?
    Isaac Newton
    30s
  • Q9
    Who used telescope to prove the Heliocentric Theory?
    Galileo
    30s
  • Q10
    Who opened up a westward sea route to the Indies?
    Megellan's expedition
    30s
  • Q11
    Who revealed the existence of the Americas?
    Columbus
    30s
  • Q12
    Why did European explorers seek an alternative trade route (by sea) to Asia?
    Over land travel was expensive and dangerous
    30s
  • Q13
    The Catholic Church recognized its need to reform and to define its teaching more clearly at this Council:
    The Council of Trent
    30s
  • Q14
    Why Europeans wanted to go to Asia:
    To acquire gold, porcelain, silver, silk and spices
    30s
  • Q15
    Who painted with perspective?
    Giotto (artist)
    30s

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