What was the Renaissance?
What is humanism?
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
What did Gutenberg's printing press (c. 1440) accomplish?
Who wrote 'The Prince' and what did it argue?
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
What was Leonardo da Vinci known for?
Who wrote 'The Faerie Queene'?
What is a sonnet?
What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean (English) sonnet?
What is the rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet?
What is iambic pentameter?
Who published the heliocentric model in 1543, placing the Sun at the center of the solar system?
What was the title of Copernicus's revolutionary book?
Who was the first person to use a telescope for systematic astronomical observations?
What did Galileo discover about Jupiter using his telescope?
What did Galileo observe about Venus that supported the heliocentric model?
Who discovered that planets move in elliptical (not circular) orbits?
How many laws of planetary motion did Kepler formulate?
Who was Tycho Brahe?
Hint: Kepler used his data to derive the laws of planetary motion
What is Kepler's First Law of Planetary Motion?
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Which answer best matches this Renaissance prompt? What is a sonnet?
Review Renaissance: What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean (English) sonnet?