How did innovation and reform during the Renaissance, Reformation, & Age of Exploration change life in Europe?

I have to do this big project for school based off the above question. I really struggle in history but I need to do good on this so I might be able to bring my grade up.



I need the 6 most important people from this time period.

Info on religion, art and architecture, science and technology, business, education, exploration, and urban life.



PLEASE title your comment with whatever topic it falls under i.e. art and architecture,



ANYTHING WILL HELP!

thank you :)How did innovation and reform during the Renaissance, Reformation, %26amp; Age of Exploration change life in Europe?
The first answer is correct. For your project, I will expand on the subjects for you.



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PAINTING %26amp; SCULPTURE



LEONARDO DA VINCI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da

';Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 ?May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, PAINTER, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.';



';Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time...';



MICHELANGELO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangel

';Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 ?February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance PAINTER, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.';



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SCIENCE %26amp; ASTRONOMY



GALILEO GALILEI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo

';Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 ?8 January 1642) was a Tuscan physicist, mathematician, ASTRONOMER, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the ';father of modern observational ASTRONOMY';...';



';...the controversy engendered by Galileo's PRESENTATION OF HELIOCENTRISM as proven fact resulted in the Catholic Church's prohibiting its advocacy as empirically proven fact, because it was not empirically proven at the time and was contrary to the literal meaning of Scripture. Galileo was eventually forced to recant his heliocentrism and spent the last years of his life under house arrest on orders of the Roman Inquisition.';



COPERNICUS

';Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 ?May 24, 1543) was the first ASTRONOMER to formulate a scientifically-based HELIOCENTRIC cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often regarded as the starting point of modern ASTRONOMY...';



';Among his many responsibilities, ASTRONOMY figured as little more than an avocation ?yet it was in that field that he made his mark upon the world.';



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TECHNOLOGY



JOHANNES GUTENBERG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gu

';Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (c. 1398 ?February 3, 1468) was a German goldsmith and printer who is credited with being the FIRST European TO USE MOVALBE TYPE PRINTING, in around 1439, and the global inventor of the MECHANICAL PRINTING PRESS.';



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RELIGION



WILLIAM TYNDALE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndale

';William Tyndale (c. 1494 ?1536) was a 16th-century Protestant reformer and scholar who TRANSLATED THE BIBLE into the Early Modern English of his day.';



';...the first to take advantage of the NEW MEDIUM OF PRINT, which allowed for its wide distribution...';



Section titled ';Biography';

';Following the publication of Tyndale's New Testament, Cardinal Wolsey condemned Tyndale as a heretic and demanded his arrest.';



';He was tried on a charge of heresy in 1536 and condemned to death...';



MARTIN LUTHER, THELOGIAN %26amp; EDUCATOR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_luth

';Martin Luther (10 November, 1483 ?18 February, 1546) was a German monk, THEOLOGIAN, university professor, FATHER OF PROTESTANTISM, and church reformer whose ideas influenced the Protestant REFORMATION and changed the course of Western civilization.';



';[Luther's] 95 Theses [, which were a collection of grievances against the Church for their sale of indulgences,] were quickly translated from Latin into German, printed, and widely copied, making the controversy ONE OF THE FIRST in history to be aided by THE PRINTING PRESS.';



';...Luther was excommunicated by [Pope] Leo X on 3 January, 1521, in the bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.';



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BUSINESS



THE MEDICI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici

';The Medici family were a powerful and influential Florentine family from the 13th to 17th century.';



';The MEDICI BANK was one of the most prosperous and most respected in Europe...A notable contribution to the profession of ACCOUNTING was the improvement of the general ledger system through the development of the DOUBLE-ENTRY BOOKKEEPING SYSTEM for tracking credits and debits.';



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EXPLORATION



CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher

';Christopher Columbus (between August 25 and October 31, 1451 ?May 20, 1506) was a Genoese navigator, colonizer and EXPLORER whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean攆unded by Queen Isabella of Spain攍ed to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere.';



HENRY THE NAVIGATOR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_n

';The Infante Henrique, Duke of Viseu (Porto, March 4, 1394 ?Sagres, November 13, 1460) was an infante (prince) of the Portuguese House of Aviz and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, being responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide EXPLORATIONS.';



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URBAN LIFE



JOHANNES VERMEER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ve

Johannes or Jan Vermeer (baptized in Delft with the name Joannis on October 31, 1632, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on December 16, 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ORDINARY LIFE.';How did innovation and reform during the Renaissance, Reformation, %26amp; Age of Exploration change life in Europe?
Only six people? Your teacher is mean.



Renaissance--Leonardo da Vinci (art)

Reformation--Martin Luther (religion, Protestant)

Age of Exploration--Prince Henry; Chris Columbus

Science--Galileo, Corpernicus

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