1. Renaissance Time line
From 1398~1642

2. Christopher Columbus 1451~1506
He was an explorer and he was the first
Europeans to discover the new land America
by traveling around.
It made an impact on discovering the new
land because that time I think every one
wanted to find the new land for the living or
for the trade. After Christopher Columbus
discovered the South America they had a war
with the natives and south Americans started
to not like the Europeans and they ruined
their culture.

3. Nicolas Copernicus 1473~1547
He invented the telescope and found out
that the moon was going around the
earth and the earth was orbiting the sun.
After he published the book “Revolutions
of the celestial spheres.
The telescope impacted us today because
if not invented then every one today will
not know that the earth was orbiting the
sun. Also maybe everyone today might
still think that the sun was orbiting the
earth if he didn’t invented the telescope.

4. Galileo Galilei 1564~1642
He improved the telescope to make the
quality more better from the original
telescope Copernicus made. Also he made
discoveries in astronomy and physics. He
spread around the world Copernicus’s
idea.
He improved the telescope better to make
sure Copernicus’s ideas were spread
around the world. If Galileo didn’t spread
the idea even he had the right idea of the
universe than maybe every one will still
think that Copernicus’s idea was wrong.

5. Leonardo Da Vinci 1452~1519
He drew some sketch of the flying
machines that looks similar with the
plains and helicopters that we are using
today.
It impacted us today because he was the
first person to sketch the flying machine.
He could not made the machines because
there was not enough ingredients and
the technology to build the machines at
that time.

6. Henry the 8th 1491~1547
He broke the rules of the religion, that they
cant have more then 1 wife and divorce.
After that he had lots of power so he made
a new religion, the religion he made was
able to have more then 1 wife.
It impacted us today because he broke the
rules of the religion and the new religion he
made is still existing until today.

7. Martin Luther 1483~1546
He was Christian and Augustinian monk.
He nailed his 95 theses in front of the
church door. 95 theses is about 95 things
of the church that he thought it was
wrong. He didn’t understand why the
peoples had to give money to the pope to
forgive them.
It impacted us today by creating the
protestant church that they don’t have to
pay money for to go haven when they die.
It also lets the people to have many
religions. If he didn’t wrote 95 theses
then maybe we are still paying money to
forgive us.

8. Michelangelo 1475~1564
He was t person like Leonardo. He was a
artist and he made sculptures too. He made
people think about the art’s more deeper.
He influenced by classical art and he created
figure that are forceful and show heroic
grandeur. I think he impact us today for the
arts because he was famous at the human
body in painting and sculpture. I think the
reason of the greatness of the painting now
is all because of Michelangelo and other
artist.

9. John Calvin 1509~1564
He was the perfect author of the famous
theological book that ever got published. He
was influenced by French followers of Martin
Luther.
It impacted us today because of god in
predestining the fate of all believers, referred
to today as “Calvinism”. But he
thought that people should enjoy god’s gifts.
Also he wrote that it should not be “Forbidden
to laugh, or to enjoy food, or to add new
possession to old”. Peoples changed their
thought’s by the sentence.

10. William Shakespeare 1564~1616
He was an English poet and playwright. He
was often called England’s national poet and
the “Bard of Avon”. He wrote the play
“Romeo and Juliet” and other
histories, comedy and tragedy. We all now
most of his plays or stories.
It impacted us today because he wrote the
great stories that everyone still enjoys to
read his stories or watch it.

11. Johannes Gutenberg 1398~1468
He invented the printing press typography
around 1440 and he made it to make it easier
to repeat the same thing every time. He was
the first European to use movable type
printing.
His printing press impacted us today because
the printer we are using to print our work is
actually from the printing press. If he didn’t
invented the printing press then it might got
invented later or maybe it didn’t even got
invented, if it was invented later then we
might be still using the printing press and not
the printer we are using now.

12. Bibliography
Books
 Christopher Columbus the discovery of the new world
 Nicholas Copernicus and the founding of modern astronomy
 Galileo Galilei and the science of motion
 The Renaissance
 Henry the 8th the king, His six wives, and his court.
 At the time of Michelangelo
 Ancient world history
 Wiki.answers.com