Renaissance Key Figures
Reformation
Causes of...
Scientific Revolution Key Figures
100

Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

Leonardo da Vinci

100
He nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle.

Martin Luther

100

These were the main causes of the Renaissance

Black Death, rediscovery of ancient Greece and Roman texts, humanism, moving back to the cities

100

He believed that the planets do not orbit the Sun in perfect circles but rather in an ellipses.

Johannes Kepler

200

"To be or not to be..." This English play write write many famous plays, including Romeo and Juliet.

William Shakespeare

200
After posting the 95 Theses, this happened to Martin Luther.
Excommunicated from the Catholic Church
200
The Scientific Revolution can be defined as

period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries

200

Convicted of heresy by the Catholic Church, he confirmed the theory that the Earth orbits the Sun.

Galileo Galilei

300

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican while lying on his back.

Michelangelo

300

The Counter Reformation removed this practice from the Catholic Church

Selling of Indulgences

300

The Renaissance can be defined as

a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom

300

He was determined to discover what caused the apple to fall on his head.

Sir Isaac Newton

400

He believed that all people were born "good" and that government had a duty to protect everyone's natural rights (life, liberty, property).

John Locke

400

This invention helped spread the ideas of the Protestant Reformation

Printing Press

400

The Reformation can be defined as

a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.

400

Initially discovered that the Sun does not orbit the Earth, but rather the Earth orbits the Sun.

Nicolaus Copernicus

500

Believed that everyone was born "bad" and only an absolute monarch should rule.

Thomas Hobbes

500

The belief that people were "predetermined" for Heaven is known as

Predestination

500

Machiavelli wrote about what in The Prince?

How the prince should expand and retain power, sometimes by unethical ways

500

Known as the "Father of Chemistry," he has a scientific law named after him.

Robert Boyle

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