| Description | Events | |
| Renaissance
1300-1600 Italy
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developed after the crusades when the ideas of humanism created an environment of curiosity and new interest in the individual | de Medici brought back many of the written works of the ancient Greeks |
| Reformation
1500-1650
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Many new church were created after a questioning attitude of the Roman Catholic church and its practices | Martin Luther posted the 95 thesis protesting indulgences
and separated from the church after his trial John Calvin developed
his idea of predestination and created his new (theocracy)
church/ government in Switzerland
Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church and created the new English church (Anglican church) |
| Counter-Reformation
1550-1600 |
was an attempt by the Catholic Church to reform itself after officials of the church began to loose members questioned the effectiveness of church practices | Council of Trent |
| Scientific Revolution
1200-1700 |
spurred on by an interest in nature and curiosity and a questioning attitude | each of the individual discoveries and inventions |
| Age of Exploration
1400-1600 |
began after the advent of new technology and techniques made exploration possible. spurred on by a curiosity and a questioning attitude for need products, a need to spread religion and expansion of the ideas of chilvary from the crusades. | each of the new explorations
People began to need products to trade. |