Renaissance
Belief that education creates wisdom and virtue; secular.
Humanism
New technique allowed artists to create 3D, natural looking images (instead of flat)
Perspective
A special privilege sold by the Catholic Church to forgive sins
Indulgence
Study of the human body and how it works
Anatomy
Title of Marco Polo's book
The Travels of Marco Polo
Martin Luther's challenge to the Catholic Church and Pope, nailed to the door of a church
95 Theses
Renaissance figure known for collecting rare works of Greek & Roman authors?
Petrarch
Marco Polo met him during his journey on the Silk Road?
Kublai Khan
Movement in Spain to enforce Catholic orthodoxy, often through violence.
The Spanish Inquisition
Embodied the era, filling notebooks about anatomy, engineering, and aerodynamics (also painted the Mona Lisa).
Leonardo Da Vinci
Hindu-Arabic Numerals
Printed one of the first English translations of the Christian Bible
William Tyndale
Invention changed everything about how information was delivered, stored and shared?
Gutenberg Printing Press
Who is proved that the Earth orbits the sun?
Copernicus
The driving factor for hundreds of years of fighting and civil war in Europe was...
Religious differences; especially Catholics & Protestants