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Period: 1265 to 1321
Dante
He was a Italian philosopher and writer. He is best known for a book called The Divine Comedy. -
Period: 1346 to 1353
Black Death
The black death was passed along by rat fleas. 75-200 million people died from the black death. This was about 50 to 60 percent of Europe's population. After the plague it took 200 year to repopulate Europe. -
1400
Art began to evolve
The art in the renaissance changed from being simple to being more complex. Perspective was added to the paintings making the paintings look more realistic.The art started to imitate nature, and landscape was added to the paintings. Some Italian artists that their paintings show examples of this are Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello. Some Northern European artists that show the evolution of the paintings are Jan Van Eyck and Roger Van Der Weyden. -
1450
Printing Press is invented
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. The first book that was printed was the bible in German. -
Period: 1469 to 1527
Machiavelli
He was an Italian philosopher and a political writer. HE is best known for the book called The Prince. -
Period: 1483 to 1546
Martin Luther
He was a Catholic monk who was very devoted to God. He started to have issues with the current Catholic church in their terms of receiving salvation. He wrote 95 thesis that had what he found wrong with the Catholic church. These 95 thesis got him excommunicated from the church. He then started his own church called Lutheranism. It quickly spread throughout Germany and Scandinavia. Lutheranism was the first protestant religion. -
Period: 1509 to 1564
Further splits in religion: John Calvin's religion
He was converted to Protestantism at age 25. He believed that the catholic church had fallen far from the original Christian church. So he created his own church called Predestination. In this religion you had free will to choose good or evil. You could do good works to get elected to do something. A government was set up in Geneva based on John's beliefs. -
Period: 1545 to 1563
Counter Reformation
The Catholic church realized that Protestantism needed to be countered. One of the popes that helped with this was Pope Paul the third he served the church in 1534 to 1549. -
Period: 1545 to 1563
Council of trent
The council looked at doctrine practices then tried to clarify them. They emphasized the teaching of the doctrine to the young, but also wanted to teach it to all Christians. Instead of unifying all Christians it emphasized the differences between the Christians. -
Period: 1564 to
Shakespeare
He was an English play writer. He is very famous and today his plays are still performed.
