Renaissance Rascals
This is the time period when the Renaissance took place
14th to 17th centuries
The basis for the ideas of Enlightenment philosophes in their study of philosophy, history, science, politics, economics, and social issues
Reason
Rene Descartes and Isaac Newton use this to discover truth
Reasoned thought
The inventor of the printing press, which increased literacy in Europe
Johannes Gutenberg
The kind of governments that rose during the Renaissance
Strong
Renaissance artists revived this type of learning from ancient Greece and ancient Rome
Classical
Thomas Hobbes
This scientist was under house arrest by the Catholic Church until his death for promoting the heliocentric model and scientific inquiry
The painter of the Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
The place that was first to recover from the Black Death, its location allowed for trade between the East and the West, and it was surrounded by the ancient past from Greece and Rome
Italy
This thinker believed people had natural rights that the government must protect
John Locke
This scientist developed the Scientific Method to help prove theories through experiements
Francis Bacon
Martin Luther's complaints he nailed to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, starting the Protestant Reformation (salvation through faith alone)
95 Theses
The artist who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Michelangelo
The cathedral built in Florence, Italy by Filippo Brunelleschi
This thinker believed in separation of government powers to stop an absolute monarch from taking power from the people
Montesquieu
This Polish scientist was first to propose the heliocentric model
Nicolaus Copernicus
The most extreme punishment for heresy established at the Council of Trent in the Roman Inquisition
Death
What Michelangelo's David represented in Florence
Independence and strength
A powerful banking family in Florence who were also patrons of the arts
Ideas from Enlightenment thinkers led to these
Revolutions (US and France)
This created a uniform legal system where everyone was treated equally under the law, many countries have copied this example
The Napoleonic Code
A philosophy that gained momentum during the Renaissance emphasizing human potential by valuing reason and the worth of individuals
Humanism
This sketch by Leonardo da Vinci represents ideal proportions in the human body
The Vitruvian Man