| A | B |
| sonnets | 14 line poem |
| Renaissance | rebirth of Greek and Roman culture |
| Michelangelo | Sistine Chapel; David |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Last Supper; Mona Lisa |
| new forms of Renaissance literature | sonnets, plays, essays |
| humanism | belief in human potential |
| Desiderius Erasmus | most famous humanist thinker |
| Renaissance started here | Italian city-states |
| Renaissance spread to here | northern Europe |
| Johannes Gutenburg | invented printing press |
| Only Christian Church c. 1500 | (Roman) Catholic Church |
| Reformation | movement to reform Catholic Church |
| indulgence | a pardon sold to forgive sin |
| Martin Luther | believed in salvation by faith alone |
| John Calvin | believed in predestination |
| Henry VIII | left church over a divorce |
| Elizabeth I | spreads Anglican Church in British Isles |
| Princes in Northern Germany | support Prostestantism (Lutheran Church) to end Pope's authority |
| Hapsburg family | support Roman Catholic Church in Germany |
| Thirty Years War | conflict between Catholic and Protestants |
| England's new church | Anglican Church |
| Germany's new church | Lutheran Church |
| Cardinal Richelieu | changed Thirty Years' War from religious to political fight |
| Edict of Nantes | law gave French Huguenots freedom of worship |
| Huguenots | French Protestants |
| Louis XIV "Sun King" | revoked Edict of Nantes |
| Society of Jesus (Jesuits) | monks sent out to spread Catholic doctrine around world |
| Inquisition | Catholic court; tried Protestants to reinforce Catholic doctrine |
| Catholic Counter Reformation | Pope's movement to stop spread of Protestantism |
| "Protestant work ethic" | hard work--helps rise of capitalism |
| 95 Theses | Luther's list of Catholic Church wrongs |
| Pope | Head of Catholic Church (in Rome) |
| Luther's hatred | sale of indulgences |
| Pope's hated rules | Latin Bible, latin services |
| Protestants print Bible in | German, English, French languages |
| Shakespeare | wrote plays, sonnets, essays |