| A | B |
| Renaissance | Rebirth of classical knowledge |
| Italian city states | where the Renaissance began |
| Northern Europe | where the Renaissance spread to |
| Leonardo da Vinci | painted The Last Supper |
| Shakespeare | wrote sonnets, plays, and essays during the Renaissance |
| Erasmus | He is known as the "Prince of the Humanists" |
| Humanities | academic disciplines that study human culture. |
| Martin Luther (Luteran) | 95 Theses; Salvation by Faith Alone |
| John Calvin (Calvinists) | Predistination; Faith revealed by living a righteous life, work ethic |
| Protestant Reformation | The resistance of The Church that resulted in the birth of new political and economic institutions |
| Indulgences | The church sold these to believers guaranteeing salvation |
| King Henry VIII | Divorced; broke with Rome; headed the national Church of England |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Anglican Church; Tolerance for dissenters; Victory over Spanish Armada |
| Edict of Nantes | granted Protestant Huguenots freedom of worship |
| Catholic Reformation | Council of Trent; Jesuits; The Inquisition |
| Printing Press | stimulated literacy; improved by Gutenberg; spread ideas |