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| The European historical period meaning rebirth |
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| A Renaissance Man and political writer who wrote the influential treatise called The Prince |
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| The Renaissance writer who first wrote in a common language, Italian, rather than Latin used by the intellectual class. His Divine Comedy made literature available to the general population. |
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| The Catholic monk and professor who wrote the 95 Theses and challenged many of the church's corrupt practices. |
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| The group of Catholic bishops who gathered regularly to reform the practices of the Catholic church. |
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| English King who established the first protestant church in England called the Anglican Church. |
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| First introduced in Europe by Johannes Gutenberg, this invention printed book using moveable type. This allowed Protestantism to spread more rapidly through Europe |
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| The Portuguese explorer who first explored Eastern Africa and Western India. |
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| The explorer who founded the first permanent French colony in the Americas called Quebec. |
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| The Enlightenment thinker who challenged the belief that the Earth was the center of the Solar System. |
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| The Enlightenment thinker who studied gravity and motion as well as developed Calculus. |
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| The movement started by the ideas of Martin Luther that moved against some of the corrupt practices of the Catholic Church |
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| A Renaissance artist and thinker who developed technical plans for futurist invention and it also famous for his portrait of the Mona Lisa. |
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| The belief in the positive traits of human beings. |
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| The Dutch humanist who wanted to reform the Catholic Church from within the system. He also rejected the predestination of Calvin in favor of free will. |
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| A protestant thinker who believed in the doctrine of predestination |
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| A group of Catholic missionaries who succeeded in converting many parts of Europe from Protestant to Catholic during the Counter Reformation |
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| The Queen of England who embraced a moderate form of Protestantism during her reign |
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| The explorer who established colonial settlements on the island of Hispaniola in the Americas. |
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| The term for the large-scale exchange of plants, diseases, animals, and people between the eastern and western hemispheres following Columbus' first voyage to what would become known as the Americas. |
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| The Enlightenment thinker who proved Copernicus's theory of a heliocentric solar system. |
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| n Italian City-State serving as a center of art and culture during the European Renaissance. |
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| A term used to describe a person with multiple intellectual and artistic talents. |
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| A Renaissance thinker who believed it was a man's duty to use the many talents given to him by God and that it was not sinful to use those talents. |
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| A theory based on the idea that countries needed a large supply of gold and silver to have prosperity |
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