Renaissance
Renaissance is French and means...
Rebirth
This person started the Reformation
Martin Luther
A movement during the Renaissance and Enlightenment that introduced great advances in science is the
Scientific Revolution
Why was Italy the perfect place for the Renaissance
Its location to old Roman and Greek culture (classicism)
Its location on trade routes
How it was not unified, but had many wealthy city-states
A person who is a master of many skills and is well educated is a ...
Renaissance Man
These were centers for the Renaissance ~ Example ~ Rome
BONUS which one was the most important?
City States
FLORENCE
The result of the Reformation was the creation of
An English philosopher who pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract, religious tolerance and the right to revolution is ...
John Locke
List some lasting impacts the Protestant Reformation had on Europe
More people could read the bible and have their own opinions on religion
Religious wars
the creation of city states
The pursuit of the individual rather than common or collective interests is.....
Individualism
This is the term for studying the classics of Greek and Roman culture
Classicism
This is how Martin Luther started the Reformation
By posting his 95 thesis (arguments against the church) on the church door
A French political philosopher who advocated for the separation of executive, legislative and judicial powers in government
Montesquieu
This is why the printing press was important for the Protestant Reformation
It allowed Martin Luther to print his ideas and spread them
Allowed for the different translations of the Bible to be printed fast for the people to read
Secularism
This is the term for a wealthy person who financially supports and encourages a Renaissance man
Patron
This guy invented / innovated the printing press
Gutenberg
This Enlightenment thinker proposed that women should have equal rights
Mary Wollstonecraft
List some of the ideas from the Enlightenment that are used in our modern government today
Separation of powers
Right to life and liberty
Social Contract
People are born free
This is the theory that the sun is in the center of the solar system and that the planets (including earth) orbit the sun
Heliocentric Theory
Leonardo and Michelangelo
This is the practice that Martin Luther was critiquing the Catholic Church for, in which people could pay to remove their sins and go to Heaven
Indulgences
This is why the discoveries about space that Copernicus and Galileo proposed were dangerous
Because they opposed the Catholic Church
These events led to the Renaissance period
The bubonic plague
The reopening of Trade routes
Due to this ~ Merchants grow wealthy
This is the movement when people stopped blindly obeying the authority of a king or the teachings of the Catholic church
Humanism