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During the Renaissance Age, the printing press was very important and a huge success. The printing press revolutionized the way ideas were spread. Martin Luther's message was able to spread during the reformation due to the printing press. -
The Gutenberg Bible was one of the first books printed after the creation of the printing press. Johannes Gutenberg made the Bible much more accessible to laypeople, which meant that more people could form their own opinions about Christianity. This made more people call for Church reform and helped start the Reformation. -
In 1492, Christopher Columbus left Europe in search of a new route to Asia but instead found the new world of the Americas. Columbus started to mistreat the Indians and the Natives saw them as a new threat to their world. Columbus used math from a Greek Mathematician that had been rediscovers from the Renaissance to calculate the distance of the voyage. -
After the discovery of the existence of the Western Hemisphere, many items were transferred between the Easter and Western Hemisphere. This completely changed both Eurasian lives and the lives of the indigenous people in the Americas. The exchange between hemispheres became one of the most influential actions in history because of the age of Discovery and the Renaissance. -
Shortly after Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci was an explorer of the New World. Unlike Columbus, he discovered that he was not in Asia, but an entirely new continent. He had the desire to understand the world around him which led to the exploration of the Americas and was a part of the humanistic philosophy that spread through Europe during the Renaissance. -
During the Renaissance, humanistic education was one of the most important achievements. When Martin Luther received his master's degree in 1505, he became a monk. He used knowledge to create the Protestant Reformation and to make logical arguments against the church. -
Niccolo Machiavelli was a Renaissance thinker and political scientist. He is well known for "The Prince" which disregarded the need for rulers to be Christian, which was a controversial opinion before the Protestant Reformation when the pope's authority was questioned. -
When Martin Luther wrote his argument again the Church, the Protestant Reformation started. He questioned the morality of the Church because of his humanistic education, which was a practice that started during the Renaissance. -
Henry VIII is responsible for the separation of the Catholic Church and England. He created the Church of England, the new state religion of England, and Anglican Christianity. A major cause for his actions was so he could divorce his first wife and take another. His actions changed Christianity's future as well as the Holy Roman Church. -
The Catholic Reformation was the change to counter force Protestantism. Catholics began to recognize that the Catholic Church was corrupt and had many faults within the papacy. It was successful that the Catholic Church was corrupt and had many faults within the papacy. It was successful in helping the church shows that they had changed and were not corrupt like before. -
The Protestant and the Age of Discovery can be as extensions of the Renaissance because neither would've happened without the ideas first created during the Renaissance.