Renaissance Dates
Poets and Artists
Miscellaneous
Reformation
Religious beliefs
100
This is the approximate year that the printing press was created by Johannes Gutenberg.
What is the year 1450?
100
The painter of "The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami".
Who was Jan Van Eyck?
100
This is what Luther thought held the truths of the Church.
What is the Bible?
100
This preacher sold indulgences.
Who is Johann Tetzel.
100
Martin Luther said these people were "no more than officeholders"
What are priests?
200
This is the year that Luther wrote a document in which he challenged the Church on the issue of indulgences.
What is the year 1517?
200
He was Dutch-born, leading figure of Christian humanism and a Roman Catholic priest.
Who was Desiderius Erasmus?
200
This was the shape that architects used in the Renaissance.
What are circles?
200
There were 95 of these in Luther's document to the Church.
What are theses.
200
This was the name of the wife King Henry VIII wanted to divorce.
Who was Catherine?
300
This is the year that the Church succeeded in having Luther labeled an outlaw.
What is the year 1521?
300
He borrowed plots from ancient works and used them in at least 37 plays.
Who was William Shakespeare?
300
This person was always a supporter of the Church.
Who was King Henry VIII.
300
This was the church started by King Henry VIII.
What is The Church of England (Anglican Church)?
400
This is the year that the Church of Rome agreed to let the Lutherans practice their religion freely.
What is the year 1555?
400
He wrote "Gargantua and Pantagruel".
Who was Francois Rabelais?
400
This was a key development of the Church's Reformation.
What is the Society of Jesus.
400
This group of people worked tirelessly to spread the Catholic faith.They were led by Ignatius Loyola.
Who are the Jesuits?
500
This is the year that King Henry the VII officially broke from the Catholic Church.
What is the year 1534?
500
He was a painter as well as a master of woodcuts and engravings. (Late 1400s.)
Who was Albrecht Durer?
500
This was a meeting that Pope Paul III called for.
What is the Council of Trent.
500
This man led a church whose followers were called "Zwinglians"
Who is Ulrich Zwingli?
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