Renaissance
The Renaissance began in which country? Hint: It looks like a boot!
What is Italy?
This man is famous for supposedly nailing 95 theses against the church onto a church door. He even has a religion named after him!
Who is Martin Luther?
This man used a telescope and discovered Saturn's rings, Jupiter's moons, and used science to help prove that the Earth revolves around the sun! The Church was not happy and sent him to jail!
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This key figure of the Enlightenment favored constitutional monarchy, a form of government with laws that limit a monarch's power
Who is John Locke?
In this first transformation, a flowering of culture based on classical Greek and Roman ideas spread throughout Europe, giving birth to a rise in art and writings
What is the Renaissance?
This renaissance man was responsible for the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and over 20,000 pages of notes and sketches of inventions.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
One of the complaints against the church was the selling of these, also known is bribes, in which people could pay money to the church to have their sins removed.
What are indulgences?
The church believed in this theory, which states that the Earth is at the center of the universe and everything else revolves around it. No wonder why the church was so mad at Galileo Galilei!
What is the Geocentric Theory?
Baron de Montesquieu wrote a book called The Spirit of the Laws, which argued for this three-part system of government, split between the executive, judicial, and legislative branches
What are the separation of powers?
In this second transformation, people have begun splitting away from the Catholic church and gave birth to the new protestant religion in this movement
What is the Reformation
The French word "Renaissance" also means this
What is Rebirth?
The people who separated from the Christian church in "protest"
Who are the protestants?
One of the most important outcomes of the Scientific Revolution is the development of this method, which involves using observation and theory to test various hypothesis
What is the Scientific Revolution?
John Locke also believed that the basis of government was a social contract in which people agree to be ruled over in exchange for protection on these kinds of rights, which belong to the people "by nature" simply because they are human
What are natural rights?
In this third transformation, people have shifted away from traditional teachings and are instead using scientific methods to learn more about the world
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Johannes Gutenberg invented this, a machine that helped produce books at a rapid pace and allow them to spread throughout the world.
What is the printing press?
Pope Leo X and the Catholic Church was not happy about Martin Luther. They branded him a heritic and then exiled him from the church, also called this
What is excommunication?
This theory, that Nicolaus Copernicus first discovered, involved the Earth revolving around the sun. Galileo Galilei further proved him right thanks to his telescope
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
This man wrote the book Leviathan, in which he believed that humans were naturally selfish and needed strong rulers to keep them in order. He was a big fan of absolute monarchy
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
In this fourth transformation, people have applied the scientific method not just to learn more about the world and nature, but how they can improve society and government
What is the Enlightenment?
This Renaissance philosophy grew popular during this time, which emphasized the worth of the individual and balances religious faith with secular learning.
What is humanism?
This war between the protestants and the Catholics was fought in England between 1618 to 1648 for both religious and political control of territory
What is the Thirty Years' War
This man published a book called the Principia which explained the laws of gravity and motion, which allowed people to see that the universe works on mechanical principles and science. You may remember him as the man who had an apple fall on his head!
Who is Isaac Newton?
What is the Age of Reason?
These transformations occured between which years?
What is the 1400s to the 1800s