Renaissance Period

✪ Question: Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

✪ Question: What invention by Johannes Gutenberg played a crucial role in the spread of Renaissance ideas?

Answer: The printing press

✪ Question: Which city is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance?

Answer: Florence

✪ Question: Who wrote “The Prince,” a political treatise on ruling and power?

Answer: Niccolò Machiavelli

✪ Question: Which Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Answer: Michelangelo

✪ Question: What term describes the focus on human potential and achievements during the Renaissance?

Answer: Humanism

✪ Question: Who is known as the “Father of Humanism”?

Answer: Petrarch

✪ Question: What was the name of the movement that sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church and led to the creation of Protestant churches?

Answer: The Reformation

✪ Question: Which English playwright is often considered the greatest writer in the English language and the pre-eminent dramatist of the Renaissance?

Answer: William Shakespeare

✪ Question: What scientific theory proposed by Copernicus challenged the geocentric model of the universe?

Answer: Heliocentrism