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The Great Schism was the divide of the Christian church and Roman Catholicism.
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Buying indulgences was a good thing in the church. Sins could be forgiven with indulgences the Pope declared.
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Poor people only ate soup, much and black bread. Meat had been available but was expensive to keep fresh. Rich people had meat and were able to buy salt to preserve it.
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Choir's in churches became very popular. It was a new type of musical and 3-6 people would sing.
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Donatello sculpted the David statue. He sculpted it around the 1440's.
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Beautiful women would have blonde hair and would have pale skin. The more colorful clothes you wore the richer you were.
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Gutenberg copied his bible by hand. His bible hit the press in 1455.
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Johannes Gutenberg invented the first printing press. This would save a lot of time for books being copied.
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Leonardo da Vinci was famous for the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He painted The Last Supper in 1498.
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Raphel was famous for painting the School of Athens and Transfiguration. He painted The School of Athens in 1509.
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Michelangelo was famous for sculpting the "David" and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He painted The Sistine Chapel in 1512.
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Francis 1 was the first king of France. He dominated the Monarchy, Humanism, and Protestantism.
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Martin Luther publishes his thesis against the Catholic church.
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Luther had written the 95 theses. He had questions and wrote about why buying indulgences were wrong.
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The Catholic Church was very powerful at this time. That all changed when Luther attacked with his 95 theses book.
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Luther argues with Johann Eck, he argues about how the sola scriptura is the basis of Christian faith. This debate was called the Leipzig Debate.
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Martin Luther appears at the Diet of Worms before Charles V. He refuses to recant and is declared heretic and excommunicated
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Cosimo Medici declined to marry into one of their families and so he tied himself to the Holy Roman Empire. He married a Spanish Princess instead.
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Francis Bacon his discoveries led to the scientific method which we still use today.
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Galileo discovers that the earth rotates around the sun. He also discovered Jupiter's 4 moons.
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Titan was famous for the Pieta. He painted The Pieta in 1575.
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Zacharias Jansen invented the microscope. This changed the way life would be in the Renaissance.
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William Shakespear was moved back to his hometown. He was 61 years old.
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Isaac Newton created the laws of motion.
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Gunpowder was invented. China had traded with us and we used gunpowder for many things.
