Rennaissance
The was the rebirth of Ancient Greek, and Roman art, literature, and learning.
What was the Renaissance?
Merchants and Crusaders brought back Classical learning and ideas which helped start this.
What is the Renaissance?
This began due to perceived corruption within the Catholic Church.
What was the Reformation?
This was the Catholic Response to the Protestant movement. They were trying to stop people from leaving the Catholic church and bringing them back. To stop the reformation they did things like ban books and ban teachings that are not Catholic.
What was the Counter Reformation?
This period of time saw the development in human understanding and knowledge about the physical universe.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This family was a wealthy banking family who lived in Florence and gained power by wealth. Major patrons of the arts.
Who is the Medici Family?
Of Florence, Venice, & Rome, this was the biggest trade city during the Renaissance?
What is Florence?
Who was Henry the VIII?
He was a king of England who broke away from the Catholic Church and starting the Church of England
He was one of the main leaders of the Reformation, and he helped lead to the birth of Protestantism.
Who is Martin Luther?
It was his theory of heliocentrism that led others to continue research to prove the theory correct. Some were labeled heretics for this.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This is the teaching to live a better life on Earth and to focus on self worth and the value of human beings.
What is Humanism?
He is the artist who designed and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
What are Indulgences?
Indulgences were a way in the Catholic Church were you could pay get forgiven for your sins.
He created the printing press which led to more bibles giving people different ideas which was a big cause in the Reformation
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
This is the way that people to test their hypotheses, build on theories, and gain knowledge through tests. Developed Bacon and revised by Descartes.
What is the scientific method?
It is the idea of not being religious or connected to a church or any other religious organization
What is secularism?
This technique in Renaissance art helped give paintings more depth and realism.
What is perspective?
What was the Diet of Worms?
The Diet of Worms is Martin Luther's appearance to respond to charges of going against the Catholic Church.
Because the Catholic Church would not grant him a divorce he began the Anglican Church, or the Church of England.
Who is Henry VIII?
Of Bacon, Descartes, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, & Newton, he made the telescope.
Who is Galileo?
He is often considered the prime example of a "Renaissance man."
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
He believed as a ruler it was better to be widely feared than greatly loved.
Who is Machiavelli?
It was this event that sparked the 30 Years War. A conflict between Catholics and Protestants which turned political by its end.
What is the Defenestration of Prague?
Of John Wycliffe, Erasmus, John Calvin, Tyndale, and Martin Luther, he was the reformer who came up with predestination.
Who is John Calvin?
This is the theory that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun.
What is heliocentrism?