People
His love of ancient poetry and virtue started the Renaissance
Petrarch
The place from which ancient documents made their way to western Europe
The Byzantine Empire
Things don't look right in art if you don't put them into this
perspective
This breakup in the Catholic Church happened when the French said "it's not us, it's you"
What is the Great Schism of the West
Dancing skeletons were popular images in this type of art
danse macabre
An important early precursor to Martin Luther
John Wycliffe
The town where Johannes Gutenberg began printing with movable type
Mainz am Rine
A get out of Purgatory but for a price card
Indulgence
Lutherans officially broke from the Catholic Church with this document in 1530
The Augsburg Confession
He thought music was dangerous, so he didn't want any of it in church
Zwingli
His ideas about predestination attracted a lot of people, including ones that eventually helped to found America
John Calvin
This city hosted a council that would change the Catholic Church
Trent
Discipline was important for this system of spiritual development
The Spiritual Exercises
This event reunited people that had been genetically distinct for over 10,000 years
Columbus landing in the New World
Some people thought eating with this implement was barbaric
A fork
They were the first to begin exploring via the sea in the Renaissance
The Portuguese
Popes set up shop here for almost a century when Italy was no longer a safe place to be
Avignon
This treaty helped the Iberians play nice
Treaty of Tordesillas
This event left the Spanish free to explore the New World
The defeat of the Moors in Spain in 1492
Humanism helped bring this image back to the forefront of artistic endeavor
The naked human form
He was executed by Henry VIII for refusing to convert to the Anglican Church, even after having been a close advisor to the king
Thomas More
Birthplace of the Renaissance
Florence
Lutherans disagreed that this actually happened during the mass
Transubstantiation
These events proved that new approaches to international relations were necessary
The Italian Wars
They often had themselves painted into a work to show their piety
Art patrons