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Indulgences are pieces of paper the church started to sell to get money from people. The Pope said buying one would get a family member or you out of purgatory faster. This was a big reason for the reformation.
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A man named Salvino D'Amrati created eyeglasses between 1268 and 1300. The invention had nothing to do with the Reformation they just happened at the same time.
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Everyone in the Renaissance was in a social class. The Upper class contained nobility, the King, and very wealthy families. The Townspeople class contained workers patricians, burghers, workers and the unemployed. The Peasant class contained farmers and the people with the same jobs as middle age peasants. These social classes started when to Renaissance started.
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Trading was around for a long time but effected everyday life. In the early 1400's trading with the Americas started. There were trade centers in Florence, Venice, and East Aisa. Trading happened all around the world with different parts of the world. This had no direct connection with the reformation.
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Giovanni Medici was the first founder of the Medici bank in the year 1434. This would make the family very wealthy and important to the Renaissance. He was however not connected to the reformation.
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A man named Gutenberg invented the printing press. A printing press is a machine that is able to copy writing from one piece of paper to another. This helped Martin Luther copy the translated version of the bible to make more and spread them across the countries.
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Johannes-Gutenberg-and-the-Printing-Press-Revolution -
Martin Luther had a huge impact on the Reformation. He translated the bible to German so a lot more people could understand it. He made a list of bad things the church was doing and sent it to the archbishop.
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The Last Supper is a well-known painting of Jesus and his disciples sitting and standing at a table. This was described in the bible and so he painted it. The is no connection between this and the Reformation.
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Raphael is a famous Renaissance painter and he painted this one. This painting is also known as Lo Spossalizio. He painted for the Franciscan church of San Francesco. It has no connection with the reformation.
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This a chapel painted by Michelangelo. He was hired by the Pope to paint it but agreed that there would be no naked people, but Michelangelo painted a lot anyway and the Pope was not happy. It took a total of four years to finish all of the paintings.
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Nicolaus Copernicus came up with the idea of a heliocentric solar system and made it public in 1511. Before Copernicus, everyone believed that Earth was the center and everything rotated around it, but Copernicus said differently and was thrown in jail.
https://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/animated-google-doodle-celebrates-revolutionary-astronomer-nicolaus-copernicus-1540126/ -
Pope Leo X was originally named Giovanni De' Medici. He bought his way into the papacy which many people saw as not okay. He made Rome the center of European culture and raised the papacy to great political power. This made Martin Luther mad because the pop should be chosen by the Cardinals, not bought.
https://www.gicas.net/machiavelli/leo10.html
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He sponsored many artists who are famous today. He sponsored Micanglo, Leonardo de Vinci, and Sandro Botticello. He ruled during the peak of the Renaissance around 1500 to 1530. He had no connection with the reformation.
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Martin Luther started the reformation in 1517 by nailing his 95 theses to the church door. This gave us many things once the fight was over with the church and the Pope. It gave us the translated bible, spiritual and region freedom, democracy and much more.
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Martin Luther translated the Bible into German so many more people could read it. He translated it once and then used a printing press to make more copies. This really boosted the reformation because people could interpret the Bible the way they wanted and practice the way they want.
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The painting of Henry the VIII was done by a man named Holbein. It was painted while Henry was in reign in 1536. Holbein painted it so Henry didn't look as fat as he actually was. There was not a connection between this painting and the reformation.
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/holbein-hans-joven/portrait-henry-viii-england -
The Tower of Babel was painted by Pieter Bruegel in 1563. He was inspired by a story in the bible about men trying to build a tower to heaven. There isn't a connection between this painting and the reformation.
https://www.amazon.com/PIETER-BRUEGHEL-BRUEGEL-PAINTING-30x40cm/dp/B00FHTZFXQ -
The microscope is put under the scientific discoveries because once it was invented it helped discover many things. It was invented by Zacharias Janssen. People used it to study things in our water, nose and our food. This had no connection to the reformation.
https://www.livescience.com/39649-who-invented-the-microscope.html
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This is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is about two kids who commit suicide for each other because they think they are in love. This has no connection with the reformation.
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The toilet was invented by John Harington. He invented it for the Queen at the time. The toilet would need to be cleaned out because everything would just sit in the toilet but another compartment until clean.
https://www.oldhouseonline.com/kitchens-and-baths-articles/the-history-of-the-toilet -
Hamlet is a well-known play written by Shakespeare during the renaissance era. It is a play about a prince who was killed by his brother so his brother could get the king. This play had no connection to the reformation.
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This was a play written by William Shakespeare. It is a play about a guy who killed his King so he would become king and he started to become delusional. His wife commits suicide because it weighs too heavily on her. This has no connection with the reformation.
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Music and dance was a part of everyday life because they used it to show off their clothes. They would do it at dinner parties to show off their best clothes. The first dramatic opera was written by Claudio Monteverdi and came out during the Renaissance in 1607.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zvs0MGD0rW8Rhy_l0yYKH8b-9VXg0AzSmTwIHuTRe50/edit#slide=id.p29
https://renaissancehaynes.weebly.com/musicdance.html
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This was were the Popes went to church. It is still the largest church in the world. Pope Julius II started the building of it and laid the first block. It was finished under Pope Paul V. It was built with money from indulgences and made Martin Luther mad.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Saint-Peters-Basilica https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica -
Newton was a scientist towards the end of the Renaissance. He discovered gravity by having an apple fall on his head. Newton discovering gravity happened a few years after the Reformation so it did not have connections to it.
https://www.ducksters.com/biography/scientists/isaac_newton.php
