Renaissance
The word "Renaissance" means
What is Rebirth?
Paying money to be forgiven for your sins
What is indulgences?
Period where many scientific advances changed people's traditional beliefs
What is The Scientific Revolution?
Three natural rights
What is Life, Liberty, and Property?
Invention that helped spread Renaissance ideas around Europe
What is the the printing press?
Invented the printing press
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
Enacted reform on the Catholic Church
What is Council of Trent
Improved the telescope to support Copernicus ideas
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Political System where one ruler should have all the power
What is Absolutism?
English mathematician that formulated the theory of the law of gravitation
Who is Issac Newton?
Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Who is Michelangelo?
Allowed people to decide which religion they wanted to follow
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
Believed the sun and planets moved around the Earth
Who is Ptolemy?
Intellectual movement that was responsible for challenging unlimited governments and caused people to question the authority of the church
What is The Enlightenment?
Spain persecuted its people to believe in the Catholic ideas or face prison or even death
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
The peninsula where the Renaissance begin
What is Italy?
The starting point of the Protestant Reformation
What is the nailing of the 95 Theses?
Developed the Heliocentric Theory
Who is Copernicus?
Philosopher believed in limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power
Who is Montesquieu?
Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things
What is reason and logic?
Humanism
What is the potential of humans to achieve?
Disagreed with the sale of indulgences
Who is Martin Luther?
The idea that was promoted by the scientist of the Scientific Revolution
What is reason and logic?
Believed that is was the government's duty to implement policies deemed beneficial for the people, or by basing decisions on majority rule
Who is Rousseau?
When the government just "let it be"
What is Laissez Faire?