Key People
Key Terms
Key Events
Inventions/Inventors
Miscellaneous
100
Who was the responsible for the Protestant Reformation?
Who was Martin Luther?
100
The idea that God has already chosen who goes to Heaven and Hell and everything that happens is ultimately his will.
What is predestination?
100
This allowed Luther's pamphlets to get distributed, increased Bible publications, and revolutionized literacy.
What is the invention of the Printing Press?
100
The Man responsible for such works as the Mona Lisa and the sculpture David.
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
The place the Renaissance began (city and country)
What is Florence, Italy?
200
The name of the family responsible for the Renaissance in Italy.
Who was the Medici family?
200
The practice of the Catholic church to sell papers that allwoed one to get to Heaven faster.
What were indulgences?
200
Without this event the Renaissance likely would not have happened as it brought lots of money to Italy, specifically to Genoa and Venice.
What are the Crusades?
200
Who was the first man to propose a heliocentric universe?
Who was Copernicus?
200
Italy's main trade partner in the early years of the Renaissance particularly in alum.
Who were the Ottomans?
300
The name of the man excommunicated and condemned for proving that the earth revolves around the sun.
Who was Galileo?
300
Proposed by Aristotle and Ptolmey, when the earth is the center of the solar system.
What is geocentric?
300
Inadvertantly assissted the Renaissance becuase this drastically reduced the population of Europe (and the Middle East).
What is the Black Plague/Black Death/Bubonic Plague?
300
In addition to his work with gravity, Issac Newton developed which discipline?
What is Calculus?
300
The city where the Protestant Reformation began.
What is Wittenberg, Germany?
400
The name of the man responsible for a long conflict within the Catholic church. The pope refused to grant him a divorce so he started his own church.
Who was Henry VIII?
400
When a religious leader is also the political leader, this would be what?
What is a theocracy?
400
This event officially set off the Protestant Reformation.
What is the nailing of the 95 Theses to the church door.
400
Artists famous for the work The School of Athens?
Who was Raphael?
400
The man who supported Copoernicus' heliocentric theory; he also discovered orbits of planets.
Who was Johann Kepler?
500
The name of the Protestant Reformer who set up a theocracy and believed in the idea of predestination?
Who was John Calvin?
500
A group of protestants that were persecuted by both the Catholic church and some protestants.
Who were the Anabaptists?
500
When the Catholic Church met to establish how they were to deal with the Protestants and defend their faith.
What is the Council of Trent?
500
Francis Bacon is resonsible for this process that observes, hypothesizes, and tests for discovery.
What is the Scientific Method?
500
Author of the book The Prince, this man suggested ways in which a ruler could overcome his opponent at all costs.
Who was Niccolo Machiavelli?
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