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Renaissance and Refo
Vocabulary and People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Marco Polo | trader from Venice |
| Medici | wealthy bankers in Florence,Italy, who supported the arts |
| Renaissance | "rebirth" and refers to the period that followed Europe's Middle Ages |
| humanism | A way of thinking and learning that stresses the importance of human abilities and actions. |
| Machiavelli | Writer,politicalleader, wrote "The Prince". |
| Michelangelo | real Italian master, wrote poetry, carved sculptures, and painted pictures. Ex. Sistine Chapel and the statue of David. |
| Leonaerdo da Vinci | sculpture, architect, inventor, engineer, mspmaker, painted Mona Lisa. |
| Johann Gutenburg | developed a printing press that used movable type. |
| Christian humanism | blend of humanist and religious ideas. |
| William Shakespeare | greatest writer in English history, famous for his plays. |
| Reformation | a reform movement against the Roman Catholic Church. |
| Martin Luther | wrote the 95 Thesis against the Roman Catholic Church |
| Protestants | those who protested against the Roman Catholic church |
| John Calvin | taught predistination, the idea that God knew who would be saved even before they were born. |
| Catholoc Reformation | effort to stop the spread of Protestants and to reform the Catholic Church from within. |
| indulgences | document given by the pope that excused a person from penalties for the sins taht he or she had committed. |