Reformation and renaissance

Assembly of the estates of the empire, called by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1521. Luther was ordered to recant but he refused. Charles V declared Luther an outlaw.

• Crusaders brought back

• Diet of worms

• recant

• Schism

to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract

• Renaissance

• Vernacular

• recant

"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome

• Renaissance

• Venice

An Italian city that emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade.

• Vernacular

• Venice

an Italian city-state and leading cultural center during the Renaissance

• Florence

• Venice

Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries

• Medici Family

• Niccolo Machiavelli

superior Muslim technology in ships, navigation, weapons and spices

• Crusaders brought back

• Johann Gutenberg

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

• Humanism

• the prince

A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathemetician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.

• shakesphere

• Leonardo da Vinci

Everyday language of ordinary people

• Vernacular

• latin