| A | B |
| Medici | wealthy Florentine banking family |
| pope | head of Catholic Church |
| Florence, Italy | birthplace of the Renaissance |
| Renaissance | means rebirth |
| patron | financial supporter |
| florin | standard coin of the Renaissance |
| Leonardo da Vinci | famous artist and scientist of the Renaissance |
| Galileo | scientist and Medici family tutor |
| exommunication | individual cut of from the church |
| interdict | community cut off from the church |
| Henry VIII | started the Church of England |
| Martin Luther | monk who wrote 95 Theses |
| Calvin | taught concept of predestination |
| protestant | person breaking from Catholic Church |
| Council of Trent | meetings addressing protestant claims |
| indulgences | paper to achieve salvation |
| faith alone | how Martin Luther though you got Grace |
| Thomas Aquinas | taught both God and reason reasonable |
| classical thinking and old ways | what the Renaissance promoted |
| Gutenberg press | invention that increased literacy |
| vanishing point | concept that made art look 3D |
| Renaissance man definition | person of many talents and intelligence |
| William Shakespeare | famous English play writer |
| Tyndale | translated bible into English |
| vernacular | local language |