The Renaissance
Renaissance Culture
The Reformation
Impact of the Reformation
The Scientific Revolution
100

The Renaissance started in this country.

Italy

100

This style of art focused on new techniques that made the art look more "real."

Realism

100

The religious movement that aimed to change the Catholic Church in Europe.

The reformation.

100

This king married 6 wives and started the Anglican Church with himself as its head.

King Henry VIII.

100

A time when thinkers began to use observation, experiments, and reasoning to learn about the world.

The Scientific Revolution.

200

This idea from the Renaissance encouraged people to learn in order to improve their "earthly" life.

Humanism

200

This invention increased literacy throughout Europe.

The printing press.

200

He wrote the 95 Theses and nailed them to a door of a church in Wittenberg Germany because he saw the Catholic Church as corrupt and in need of reform.

Martin Luther.

200

A reformist group on Catholic priests founded by Ignatius Loyola.

The Jesuits (Society of Jesus).

200

He was placed under house arrest and forced to recant for his scientific theories.

Galileo Galilei

300

This idea from the Renaissance taught that the individual is just as important as the community, and that people can make their own decisions.

Individualism

300

Leonardo Da Vinci made this painting, which used a new Italian painting technique that blended a "smoky" feature.

The Mona Lisa.

300

The belief that God has already decided whether people will go to Heaven or Hell.

Predestination.

300

A civil war that began in the Holy Roman Empire and split Protestants and Catholics, leading to the death of 12 million people is known as...

The Thirty Years War.

300

He proposed the theory of gravity, the three laws of motion, and discovered that all colors come from rays of light.

Sir Isaac Newton.

400

This idea from the Renaissance taught that not all knowledge has to revolve around religion.

Secularism

400

Michelangelo was able to paint on his back to complete the ceiling of this church...

The Sistine Chapel.

400

The Catholic Church had been selling these, which offered people forgiveness in exchange for payment.

Indulgences. 

400

These were created throughout Catholic Europe as a way of keeping Jewish people separate.

Ghettos.

400

This new way of thinking and questioning uses scientific observations, experiments, and reasoning.

The Scientific Method.

500

This man is generally known as the original "Renaissance Man."

Leonardo Da Vinci

500

This term means an idealistic, but hopeless endeavor.

Quixotic.

500

It was here that Luther had to defend his ideas from the 95 Theses to the Holy Roman Emperor.

The Diet of Worms.

500

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre resulted in the death of thousands of these people...

Huguenots. 

500

This law of motion explains that force equals mass times acceleration...

The second law of motion.