1300-1650
Renaissance Timeline
Leonardo Da Vinci
 Leonardo da Vinci was an
excellent example of
Renaissance Italy’s social
ideal because he was a
painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, and
mathematician.
 Responsible for the Mona
Lisa and The Last Supper
Other Renaissance Painters
Raphael
Michelangelo
Humanism
 Humans can improve
themselves
 Paint well known people
 Concentrate on worldly
subjects
 The scientific method
arises which leads to
hypothesis instead of
god being the answer for
everything
Sir Thomas More
 Wrote Utopia
 Executed for not
accepting Henry VIII as
head of Church
Luther
 95 Theses attacked
indulgences
Luther
 Doing what was right
was the central idea of
Protestantism
 Lutheranism becomes
the first Protestant faith
Peace of Augsburg
 The Peace of Augsburg
divides Germany into
Protestant and Catholic
states
Council of Trent
 Was part of the Catholic
Reformation
 Reforms the Catholic
church and penalizes
corruption
Renaissance Gives way to…
 Atlantic exploration,
more importantly the
Columbian Exchange
and the Middle Passage
 Columbian Exchange is
the global transfer of
plants, animals, and
diseases that occurred
during the European
colonization of America
 Middle Passage is the
voyage that brought
captured Africans to the
New World