Protestant Reformation
Renaissance
Middle Ages
Inventions and Innovations
Miscellaneous
100

He is usually regarded as launching the Protestant Reformation with his criticisms of the Catholic Church

Martin Luther
100

The renewed interest in learning and spread of information during the Renaissance helped cause what other major movement in Europe during the 1500s

Protestant Reformation

100

This was the main social structure in Medieval Europe, where it was very difficult to move up or down in status

Feudalism

100

This Gutenberg invention made the spread of information much faster in the Renaissance and Reformation

Printing Press

100

Martin Luther nailed these to the door of a church in Germany to launch the Protestant Reformation

95 Theses

200

This English King was important for the Protestant Reformation in England because he broke from the Catholic Church when they would not allow him to get a divorce from his first wife

Henry VIII

200

This unit of organization was the primary form of society in Renaissance Italy, the most important of which was Florence

city-state

200

This disease killed nearly one third of Europe and led to major loss of faith in the guidance of the Catholic Church

Bubonic Plague (Black Plague)

200

This key feature of the Middle Ages separated land into fenced in parcels to make farming easier - and also displaced many serfs from their homes

Enclosure System

200

This book by Niccolo Machiavelli told Lorenze di Medici how to gain and keep power (hint: better to be feared than loved)

The Prince

300

This practice, where the Church would issue forgiveness of sins for a small fee, is one of the main issues Martin Luther rejected in his reform movement

Sale of Indulgences

300

He developed the ideas of Humanism, which became a central philosophy during the Renaissance

Desidirius Erasmus

300

These wars fought between Christian kingdoms and Islamic powers were mostly about the control of Jerusalem as a holy city

The Crusades

300

The development of these groups in Medieval Europe created better standards for trade and quality of work in specialized trades

Guilds

300

Voyages and exploration to other parts of the world were heavily influenced by what European era in which people desired new information and ideas?

Renaissance

400

This Swiss reformer believed in the principle of predestination

John Calvin

400

While religious and Greek subjects were often used in Renaissance art, this technique gave the paintings of the era an appearance of dimension and motion

Linear perspective

400

This was the structure of land distribution during the Middle Ages, where a lord lived in the "Big House" in service of the King, and everyone else worked for the lord

Manorialism

400

The development of this language technique in writing made it easier for average people to understand the Bible, and made Shakespeare a very popular playwright

Vernacular

400

Which events (wars) of the Middle Ages led to a major cultural and scientific exchange between Europe and Asia?

The Crusades

500

This was one of the primary philosophies of Martin Luther on how a Christian could find salvation, which ran contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church

Sola Fide (faith alone)

500

This ancient location was the inspiration for many Renaissance works, after their texts were discovered by Europeans traveling through the Islamic World

Greece

500

This system declined in Europe as a result of the Crusades and the Plague, mostly because of the loss of human life from fighting and disease

Feudalism

500

This Chinese invention made the use of printed material easier and cheaper to produce

Paper

500

Multiple new religious groups and denominations were formed as a result of what era in European history?

Protestant Reformation

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