The written complaint agains the Catholic Church nailed on the cathedral door in Wittenberg, Germany.
What is the 95 Theses?
100
First European to sail around Africa to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
100
Author of the heliocentric theory.
Who is Copernicus?
100
A period when philosophers based their observations from science to explain politics and human behaviors.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
The term for a man who is multi-talented and good at all he tries to do. An ideal during the Renaissance period.
What is Renaissance Man?
200
Leader of a Reformation movement against the Catholic Church believing that man only had to have faith to achieve salvation in his justification of faith doctrine.
Who is Martin Luther?
200
First European to sail around the world proving it was larger than previously known and round.
Who is Magellan?
200
The scientific idea that the earth orbited the sun.
What is the heliocentric theory?
200
Author of natural rights theory
Who is John Locke?
300
Painter and inventor who was the epitome of the Renaissance Man concept.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
The practice of selling penance as prayers to raise funds to support St. Peter's Basilica was a major reason for the Protestant Reformation.
What are indulgences?
300
Founded the city of Quebec.
Who is Samuel Champlain?
300
He created the laws of gravity and invented the math we know as calculus.
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
He believed in the social contract theory, believed man was born good, and said "man is born free and everywhere he is in chains".
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
400
He wrote "The Prince", a political essay explaining that rulers must sometimes be ruthless to keep order in their lands.
Who is Machiavelli?
400
A council of Catholic bishops who came to the conclusion that the Catholic Church should not change its doctrine that salvation is gained through good works and faith.
What is the Council of Trent?
400
This city was founded as a fur trading post and a defensive fort to protect French claims in the New World.
What is Quebec?
400
He suggested planets orbited the sun in elliptical patterns and invented the laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
A politica idea that power in government should be divided into three branches.
What is separation of powers?
500
Sculpture of the David and Pieta and painter of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
500
Order of clergyman founded by St. Ignatius to spread Catholic ideals and to educate the people about the life of Christ. They accompanied many explorers on their expeditions to the new world.
What are the Jesuits?
500
Chinese explorer who sailed from China to Africa on colossal ships called "treasure ships".
Who is Zheng He?
500
With an improved microscope, he saw Jupiter's moons, confirmed Copernicus ideas of the heliocentric theory, and because his ideas were radical to the Catholic Church, he spent the remainder of his life under house arrest.
Who is Galileo?
500
He wrote "Spirit of Laws" suggesting separation of powers, and checks and balances in government.