Vocabulary
Acts of forgiveness that people could buy from the Catholic Church until the 1530s.
What is indulgences?
This made it possible to print many copies of books.
What is the printing press?
"I found a way to draw perspective on a flat surface."
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
The complaints about practices that Martin Luther nailed to the Catholic Church.
What is the 95 Theses?
The Renaissance began here.
Where is Florence, Italy?
People who have achieved higher levels of education.
Who are scholars?
Artists of this time period studied.
What is anatomy?
"The Catholic Church has too many ceremonies."
Who is Erasmus?
A movement by the Catholic Church to slow the spread of the Protestant Reformation in the 1530s.
William Shakespeare lived here from 1564-1616.
Where is England?
Banned from the church.
What is excommunicated?
This person created the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
"All the world's a stage."
Who is William Shakespeare?
King Henry the VIII became head of this church to allow divorces.
What is the Church of England?
The Protestant movement started to spread here when John Calvin began to speak out against the Catholic Church.
Where is Switzerland?
A movement during the Renaissance to learn more about human nature, human problems, and life on Earth.
What is Humanism?
Famous writer that wrote poems and plays including Hamlet as well as Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Shakespeare?
"I am a loyal Catholic, but I want a divorce from Catherine of Aragon."
Who is Henry VIII?
People who believe in Christianity but do not belong to the Catholic Church.
Who are Protestants?
Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a church here.
Where is Wittenberg, Germany?
Was a movement during the 1500s to make changes in the practices of the Catholic Church. It resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.
What is reformation?
A time in European history in which people advanced the arts, the sciences, and philosophy. It lasted from the mid-1300s until the 1500s.
What is the Renaissance?
"My son is a weak king, so I am the real ruler of France!"
Who is Catherine de Medici?
Thousands of these individuals were killed in a surprise attack declared by Catherine de Medici on St. Bartholomew's Day.
Who are the Huguenots?
Thomas More wrote Utopia to compare life to a perfect, but imaginary, society here.
Where is Europe?