APEuro - Period 1: 1450-1648

is a system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing stores of gold and precious metals.

there was a surge of interest in and production of art and literature. "Renaissance art" describes the style of art that came out of this period. ... In Old French renaissance means "rebirth."

Gutenberg invented the printing press which would revolutionize media forever

Columbus found the Americas in 1492 to claim them for spain

a sold pardon for certain types of sin.
You can get one for yourself, or for someone who is dead. You cannot buy one — the church outlawed the sale of indulgences in 1567 — but charitable contributions, combined with other acts, can help you earn one

Yellow-Religion, Green Art, light blue-Social, Red Politcal

which propounded two central beliefs that the Bible is the central religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds was to spark the Protestant Reformation.

was a movement within Western Christianity in the sixteenth-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Roman Catholic Church and papal authority in particular; Start of Protestanism by Martin Luther

egan as a religious civil war between the Protestants and Roman Catholics in Germany that engaged the Austrian Habsburgs and the German princes. The war soon developed into a devastating struggle for the balance of power in Europe.