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- 9. This person would lie, cheat and steal. He was willing to break the law and violate ethical norms to become a pioneer in his research field. He would take students on field trips to the local cemetery to acquire new subjects for research. He even bribed judges to sentence people to death to get more cadavers to dissect.
- 10. This artist had a variety of talents including inventing, engineering, painting, sculpting and even… dissecting.
- 12. Business was booming for these artistic professionals after the discovery of what Europeans called the “New World.”
- 13. These infamous nomadic conquers of Asia were mostly unknown in Europe before the travels and writings of Marco Polo.
- 14. Before the Printing Press was invented, nearly all books in Europe were hand written copies of this book.
- 16. As dangerous as it is lucrative, this ancient series of trade networks connects Western Europe to Eastern Asia.
- 18. Formerly only available to the wealthy and political elite, this ability became more prevalent among the common people with the invention of the printing press.
- 19. This country is known as the epicenter of the Renaissance
- 20. This Italian scientist, known for improving the telescope, made discoveries that supported the heliocentric model, including observing the phases of Venus. His advocacy for the Copernican system and his rejection of Aristotelian cosmology brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church, leading to his trial and house arrest.
- 21. This word means “rebirth,” and is used to describe the European time period after the Dark Ages - where art, science and learning flourished..
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- 1. This machine revolutionized literacy, as books became cheaper to produce and faster to copy. Before this invention, books were copied by hand.
- 2. This Polish Renaissance astronomer authored "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres," proposing a heliocentric model where the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe, a revolutionary idea that laid the groundwork for modern astronomy but wasn’t fully accepted until years after his death.
- 3. One of the most famous paintings of all time, this masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci is exemplary of the advancement of Renaissance art.
- 4. Emphasizing the value of the individual, grounded in logical reason, and inspired by the classic art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome; this philosophy focuses on the achievements and potential of humanity. Many who followed this philosophy were devout Christians, but they wanted governments to be secular (non-religious).
- 5. This was a common hobby of Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius… so long as a dead body is involved
- 6. In this era of European history, nearly 90% of the population were peasants living in warring city states. Secular advancements were limited during this time period which lasted several centuries. Pseudo-science prevailed, and the masses suffered for it. As a result, many Europeans began to lose trust in the highest level of government at the time, the catholic church.
- 7. You wouldn’t want to be one of these subjects needed for Vesalius's groundbreaking and controversial research
- 8. This Italian explorer traveled the silk road. In Asia, he earned the trust of Kubla Khan, the Great Khan of the Mongols. He traveled as far as Beijing, China before returning home to Italy.
- 9. This not so “New” world sparked a boom in cartography.
- 11. The grandson of Genghis Khan, and who later befriended Marco Polo.
- 15. Another term for the medieval period, this era is defined by historians as lasting from the fall of the Roman empire to the beginning of the Renaissance.
- 17. Particularly admired by humanists, this time period is considered to be the ‘ancient past’ before the middle ages. Sometimes referred to as the Roman Classic Era.