European Time Periods

By christy.billingsley
  • Period: 400 to 1400

    Middle Ages

  • Period: 1420 to 1545

    Italian Renaissance

    A new and modern way of thinking about the world and man's place in it. It was a period of learning, literature, art, and culture. Occurred after the Middle Ages.
  • Period: 1497 to

    Northern Renaissance

    The spread of ideas from Italy to Northern Europe.
  • Period: 1517 to

    Reformation

    A religious and political challenge to the Roman Catholic Church promoted by Martin Luther (Lutherans), King Henry VIII (Anglicans), and John Calvin (Presbyterians).
  • Period: 1550 to

    Scientific Revolution

  • Period: to

    Enlightenment

    "The Age of Reason" - A period where people throughout Europe questioned traditional authority and embraced the notion that humanity could be improved through rational change.