History, Renaissance era

Y8 revision

Martin Luther

Challenged the Catholic Church with his 95 Theses, sparking the Reformation.

Origin of the name of the Protestant Church

Named after those who protested against Catholic Church teachings and authority.

Language shift in Church of England services under Henry VIII

Services were held in the language of the people rather than Latin.

Johannes Gutenberg

Inventor of the printing press, which ended monks being the only ones who could make books.

Impact of the printing press on science and Church authority

Allowed books, leaflets, and pamphlets to spread medical knowledge quickly, causing the Church to lose control of information sharing.

Andreas Vesalius

Physician who made anatomy fashionable, dissected bodies, labeled muscles and organs, and corrected 300 of Galen's mistakes.

Fabric of the Human Body

Anatomical book written by Andreas Vesalius that featured labeled drawings of human muscles and organs.

Number of Galen's mistakes corrected by Andreas Vesalius

300 mistakes in ideas that the Catholic Church had believed.

William Harvey

Scientist who wrote Motion of the Heart, studied circulation, found there is only one type of blood, and compared animal and human heartbeats.

William Harvey's discovery regarding the heart and liver

Proved that blood is pumped through the body by the heart, not the liver.

Three main reasons Europeans traveled to the New World

Gold, God, and Glory.

Jamestown in Virginia

The first successful British colony established in the New World.

Amount of tobacco exported from Virginia by 1621

160,000 kilograms produced and exported by the British.

Impact of British diseases on indigenous people in Virginia

Diseases including measles and smallpox spread, resulting in 75% of the indigenous population dying from smallpox.