Unit 8: The Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation
Renaissance Europe
Need to Know:
Renaissance:
How geography affected the spread of Renaissance ideas.
Why the city of Florence and the Medici Family were important to the Renaissance
What Humanism is and how Thomas Aquinas influenced it
What the Patronage System was
What the 3 main scientific advances of the Renaissance were
Reformation:
- Who Martin Luther was and why he was important
- Why the Protestant Reformation started
- How the Catholic Church reacted to the Protestant Reformation
- How King Henry VIII and his daughters Elizabeth and Mary were involved in the Protestant Reformation
- How the Printing Press helped change Europe