Vocabulary from the "Plus 5" list for World History AP
34908319 | European Renissance | "rebirth"; a cultural movement that was around the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe; improvements in architechture, art, science, philosophy, etc. were made | 0 | |
34908320 | Protestant Reformation | a Christian reform movement in Europe which is said to have begun with Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 | 1 | |
34914131 | Gutenberg | (circa 1400-1468) a German printer; credited with invention of printing from movable type | 2 | |
34914132 | Martin Luther | (1483-1546); German theologian and author; leader of the Protestant Reformation; author of the Ninety-Five Theses that stated the problems that needed to be fixed in the Catholic Church; he was excommunicated from the Church and started his own branch of Christianity: Lutherism | 3 | |
34914133 | John Calvin | (1509-1564); a French theologian and reformer in Switzerland; and a leader in the Protestant Reformation | 4 |