Flashcards: People to Remember from the Renaissance and Reformation
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Created by:
e-learninglinks 
on July 1, 2011
Subjects:
history, renaissance, reformation
Description:
Do you know who each of the people are from the Renaissance and the Reformation?
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 John Wycliffe | Translated the Bible from Latin into the common language of the English people |
| Cosimo de'Medici | Founder of the Medici political dynasty in Florence |
| Johannes Gutenberg | First to use movable type printing (around 1439), and the inventor of the printing press |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, engineer, and inventor who painted the Mona Lisa and the The Last Supper |
| Ferdinand and Isabella | King and Queen of Spain who sponsored the exploration of Christopher Columbus |
| Michelangelo | Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer. Two of his most famous scultures are David and Pietà. He also painted scenes from Genesis and The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel in Rome |
| Raphael | Italian painter and architect who lived at the same time as Michelangelo and Leonardo de Vinci. He painted the School of Athens |
| Martin Luther | German priest who rejected the teachings of the Pope and the Catholic Church. In 1517, he nailed 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg Germany |
| William Tyndale | English scholar and theologian who traslated the New Testament of the Bible into English, had it printed, and smuggled it into England. He was burned at the stake |
| Henry VIII | King of England from 1509 to 1547 who separated from the Roman Catholic Church and established himself as the head of the Church of England |
| Thomas More | Chancellor in the reign of Henry VIII who was executed for refusing to recognize the English church's break with Rome and Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. He was the author of 'Utopia' and was against the Reformation |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Polish astronomer who published his theory in 1543 that the sun is the center of the universe |
| Edward VI | King of England and Ireland in 1547 when King Henry VIII died. Although he died when he was only 15, he helped reform the Church to Protestantism |
| Lady Jane Grey | Queen of England for just over one week in July 1553 before she was beheaded |
| Mary I | Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 until 1558 who returned England to Roman Catholicism and had over 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake, earning her the nickname "Bloody Mary" |
| Elizabeth I | Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 until 1603 who supported the establishment of an English Protestant church |
| Mary, Queen of Scotts | Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567 who fled to England after she was forced to abdicate her throne |
| James VI of Scotland | Became King of England after Queen Elizabeth died |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | English explorer who gained new territories for England and tried to colonize Virginia. |
| Bartholomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488 |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who is credited with the European discovery of America in 1492 |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to sail around the world and named the Pacific Ocean |
| Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer who discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East |
| John Calvin | Theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation who taught that Scripture alone is the only source of truth, and emphasized salvation by grace rather than by works |
| John Knox | Leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland |
| Galileo Galilei | Italian scientist who was accused of heresy for his support of the theory that the sun was at the center of the solar system |
| Isaac Newton | English physicist and mathematician who discovered laws of gravity and motion |