Sforza led a band of these soldiers who sell their services to the highest bidder.
What are mercenaries?
100
An image painted on fresh, wet plaster.
What is a fresco?
100
This belief system thought one could become more religious if they studied the classics and basic works of Christianity.
What is Christian Humanism?
100
Like Luther, he believed in the justification by faith alone to explain how humans achieved salvation. He took over as a religious leader in Switzerland after Zwingli.
Who is John Calvin?
100
This office, in charge of the Catholic Church, had been corrupted by money and political power and was jolted into reform by the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Papacy?
200
Bettering one's self through the study of grammar, rhetoric, and moral philosophy was the basis for this movement.
What is humanism?
200
Written in Italian vernacular, this author's Divine Comedy is the story of the soul's journey to salvation.
Who is Dante?
200
This Swiss Priest joined with Martin Luther, leading church reform and the fight against the Catholics in Switzerland. He was the Protestant leader of Switzerland before John Calvin.
Who is Ulrich Zwingli?
200
He used his powers to dissolve monasteries and sell their land and possessions to wealthy landowners and merchants.
Who is King Henry VIII?
200
This invention made it possible for the rapid spread of protestant ideas.
What is the printing press?
300
His book, The Prince, explains how to acquire and keep political power.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
300
Written by Chaucer, these tales served as the chief ancestor of the modern English Language.
What is The Canterbury Tales.
300
A remission, after death, from all or part of the punishment from sin. The Catholic Church sold them to their congregation.
What is indulgence?
300
They refused to hold political office or bear arms because they took literally the commandment, "Thou shall not kill."
What are the Anabaptists?
300
He used frescoes to paint the "School of Athens."
Who is Rafael?
400
Renaissance society was separated into these three classes.
What are peasants, townspeople, and nobles?
400
His figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel show an "ideal" type of human being.
Who is Michelangelo?
400
He began the reformation in the early 16th century.
Who is Martin Luther?
400
This was supported by the Jesuits, reform of the papacy, and the Council of Trent.
What is Catholic Reformation?
400
She had more than 300 protestants burned as "heretics."
Who is Bloody Mary (Queen and daughter of King Henry VIII)?
500
Another word for rebirth.
What is renaissance?
500
He was the father of Italian Renaissance Humanism.
Who is Petrarch?
500
Angered by the Catholic Church, Martin Luther sent this to his church superiors.
What is The Ninety-Five Theses?
500
This movement changed the view of the family and ended the requirement of celibacy for the clergy.
What is Protestantism?
500
This declaration made Martin Luther an outlaw within the Holy Roman Empire.