An intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements

a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.

"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome

A form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws.

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

15th century invention which revolutionized the ability to print information which in turn affected the speed of the spread of information itself.

an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)

A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathemetician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa

painter, sculptor, and architect; painiting on the ceiling of the SIstine Chapel in Rome

(1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. "End justifies the means."

Inventor of the printing press

the Spanish Renaissance author of the masterpiece Don Quixote

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

English Queen and politique who united Protestants and Catholics through compromise