Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, and

Revolution

Chapter 17 and

Chapter 18

Enduring Understanding

After the difficult Middle Ages, The Renaissance was a time of rebirth that led to new ideas and inventions that had a direct impact on the development of the modern world.

Essential Questions 1. What events led up to the

Renaissance/Reformation/Enlightenment and what effects did they have on society?

2. How did influential people of the time have an impact on changing the world?

3. What impact did the Magna Carta have on the world?

4. Why was the printing press such an influential invention?

Essential Questions-Part 2 5. Describe the Thirty Year’s

War.

6. What caused a commercial revolution in the 1400s?

7. What were the new values and art developed in the Renaissance?

Vocabulary, People, and Places

1. Renaissance 2. Diplomacy 3. Humanism 4. Reformation 5. Denomination 6. Theology 7. Gutenberg8. Leonardo da Vinci

Need to know why the people

were famous

Vocabulary, People, and Places 9. Separation of

Powers 10. Newton 11. Natural Rights/Law 12. Copernicus 13. Martin Luther King 14. Galileo

Vocabulary, People, and Places

18. Marco Polo 19. Christopher

Columbus 20. Michelangelo21.Bloody Mary 22. Henry the VIII23. William

Shakespeare

Key Concepts During the Renaissance, new

values and new art developed in wealthy Italian city-states.

During the Reformation, Religious reformers broke from the Catholic Church and began a new movement that came to be known as Protestantism.

Catholics and Protestants fought religious wars across Europe.

Key ConceptsEuropeans began to explore overseas in

the 1400’s causing a commercial revolution.

During the Scientific Revolution, ideas and discoveries gave Europeans a new way to understand the universe.

During the Enlightenment, new ideas began to influence and change government and society.