This was the beginning of a movement for change in Christianity.
What was the Reformation?
100
In the 1500's and 1600's, this was done by the Catholic Church when they set out to defeat Protestants and convince people to return to the church.
What was the Counter-Reformation?
100
A pardon from the church for a person's sins.
What is an indulgence?
200
Name two important cities of the Renaissance.
What are Florence, Venice, Genoa, Milan, and Rome?
200
The printing press in Europe was started by this man.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
200
This man challenged the Roman Catholic Church by making a list of 95 arguments and nailing these to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral.
Who is Martin Luther?
200
Europe was divided into these two religious denominations in the 1500s.
What were Catholic and Protestants?
200
The study of questions about God
What is theology?
300
These two civilizations were studied by the Renaissance people.
What are the Greeks and Romans?
300
The third greatest artist of the Renaissance who is most known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
Who is Michelangelo?
300
A religion that John Calvin started.
What is Calvinism?
300
This man started his own church in the Counter-Reformation and ruled England from 1509 to 1547.
Who was King Henry VIII?
300
An organized branch of Christianity.
What is denomination?
400
These were two fields of science that became important during the Renaissance.
Who are astronomy and anatomy?
400
This man invented the multibarrell artillery piece, cross section of a palace with subways for carriages, and a helicopter-like flying machine.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
400
Martin Luther wrote these arguments about the Roman Catholic Church.
What were the Ninety-Five Theses?
400
These people held meetings for 20 years and made Catholic beliefs clear.
What was the Council of Trent?
400
The belief that God has decided, in advance, who will go to heaven.
What is predestination?
500
One of Florence's richest merchant families who introduced new trade goods and expanded the banking industry was this family.
Who were the Medicis?
500
These people wanted a balance between faith and reason.
Who were humanists?
500
Name two of the main ideas of Lutheranism.
What are salvation comes thru faith in Jesus, the Bible is the source of truth about God, and the church includes all believers?
500
This was one thing the Catholic Church did to stop the spread of Protestantism.
What is set up a traveling court called the Inquisition, founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) which spread Catholicism through educating people, and published a list of forbidden books called The Index?