Italian Renaissance
Renaissance translates to mean this, referring to the return of classical culture.
Rebirth
These countries in the north of Europe were the second place where Renaissance ideas would catch on, outside of Italy.
These men attempted to reform the Christian faith prior to the start of the Reformation. Both were killed and their works suppressed.
John Wycliffe and Jan Hus
This king would found the Anglican faith in response to the refusal of the Pope to annul his marriage.
King Henry VIII
This theory was put forward by Ptolemy and the Church, positioning the earth as the center of the universe.
The Geocentric Model
This philosophy values human achievement and comfort over piety or nobility.
Humanism
This artist would emphasize realism in his paintings, and is known as the Leonardo of the North.
Albrecht Durer
This man would post the 95 Theses on the doors of a local church and created the first Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther
This member of the church would write the book Spiritual Exercises, and started to build followers with the goal of reforming Catholicism from the inside.
Ignatius of Loyola
This Model of the universe would be built up by men like Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo, using the latest methods and tools.
The Heliocentric Model
This city at the heart of the Renaissance was home to Niccolo Machiavelli and the powerful Medici family.
Florence, Italy
This technology, invented in Flanders, would form the foundation of paintings in the Renaissance and beyond.
Oil Paints
This European empire ruled by the Habsburgs would see the highest number of protestants amongst its subjects.
The Holy Roman Empire
This order was founded during the counter-reformation to improve the quality of religious education amongst priests.
The Jesuit Order
Observation, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analyze, Communicate.
The Scientific Method
This Renaissance artist was known for using perspective in his artworks, such as the statue of David and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Michelangelo
This group of people, including More and Erasmus, used the ideas of the Renaissance to challenge the ideas of the Catholic Church.
Christian Humanists
This protestant faith would start in Switzerland, and would see an offshoot in Scotland. They prefer churches without decoration.
Calvinism
This practice of mass interrogations was used by the Catholic Church and Catholic governments with the goal of driving out or killing dissenters and non-Christians.
Inquisition
This man would famously put forward the idea that people should only trust what they can prove empirically, stating "I think, therefore, I am."
Rene Descartes
The cultures of these "classical" civilizations exploded in popularity during the Renaissance, particularly amongst the new rich class of merchants and bankers.
Greece and Rome
This device, invented by Johan Gutenberg, would revolutionize the spread of knowledge across Europe.
The Printing Press
This peace treaty would end the largest war between Catholics and Protestants
The Peace of Augsburg
This church gathering would declare the intent of the Catholic Church to not change structurally in response to the Protestant Movement.
The Council of Trent
This man, at the end of the Scientific Revolution, would pioneer the theory of gravity and the laws of motion.
Isaac Newton