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People of the Renaissance, Reformation and Sci Revolution
the time period of the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation
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History
9th Grade
09/26/2012

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Definition
  • Author of the prince a very well known book to this day
  •  Ingenius political advisor to the Medici who fired him
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Lorenzo de Medici

 

Definition
  • very famous leader of Florence
  • he was very interested in art and had a very good eye for it
  • he took Michelangelo under his wing
  • he was almost assassinated twice by the pope
  • when the pope atempted to seize Florence, Lorenzo went into enemy territory and pribed them for help
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Henry VIII

 

 

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  • formed his own English church
    • because the pope refused to annul his marriage
  • he then married the pregnant Anne Bolyen
    • this pregnancy resulted in a daughter
  • he had his advisor, Thomas More, killed for not joining the church of England
    • Thomas More later became a saint
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Copernicus

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  • came up with heliocentric, or sun centered, universe
  • this theory was rejected
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Galileo

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  • invented the telescope
  • this helped him prove the heliocentric theory
  • the church charged him with heresy and made him deny his theory
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Isaac Newton

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  • explained the force that kept the planets in orbit
    • called this force Gravity
  • published a book that explained the forces of the universe
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Martin Luther
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Became angery at church
Wrote 95 thesis
Started new religion-protestant
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Pope Leo
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Sold indulgences
Excommunicated Luther
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Tetzel
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A priest who sold indulgences in Wittenberg
His actions caused the writing of the 95 thesis
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John Calvin
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Founder of Calvinism

set up a theocracy in Geneva

many people fought against the Calvinists

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Charles the fifth
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summoned Luther to the diet of worms

he ordered Luther to recant but Luther refused

He then made Luther an outlaw

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Thomas More
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Wrote the book Utopia to describe an ideal society
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Erasmus
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 a priest called for a church reform because of the church corruption
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Shakespeare
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famous and ingenius playwrite

his works vastly added to english words-1700

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Albrecht Durer
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Observed and painted nature
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Catherine of Aragon
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King Henry's frist wife

failed to produce a male heir

henry annulled their marriage

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Anne Bolelyn
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Henry's second wife

gave birth to a daughter

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St. Ignatius of Loyola
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founded the Jesuits

Jesuits- an extremely diciplened group of catholics

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Tyco Brahe
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Found more evidence to support copernicus' theory

died before his research was complete

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Johannes Kepler
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Brahe's assistant

finnished Brahe's research

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Descartes
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Helped found the scientfic method
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Robert Boyle
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Explained atoms

distinguised elements from compounds

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Johann Guttenberg
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Inventor of the printing press
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