The Renaissance Period
Differences
People
Challenges in the Church
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When did the Renaissance start and end?
1300-1650
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What was the major difference in art between the Renaissance and the Middle Ages?
Art in the Middle Ages was mostly religious and did not have much depth. Art in the Renaissance focused on people and used perspective.
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Who was St. Katherine of Siena?
She was a woman who convinced the pope to move back to Rome after he decided he would rather live in France.
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What was the Western Schism?
When the pope insulted some cardinals in France, they decided to elect their own pope. For a while there were two people claiming they were pope.
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What is a major difference between the philosophy in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?
People in the Middle Ages were very religious, and in the Renaissance people began to practice humanism, a way of thinking that focused more on human achievement than religious subjects.
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Who was St. Thomas More?
He was a friend of King Henry VIII who disagreed with his views on marriage, so he refused to recognize him as the leader of the Church.
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What is the Anglican Church?
The Church that King Henry VIII of England founded after being denied an annulment by the Catholic Church.
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What was the council of Trent?
A meeting held to discuss the differences between Catholics and Protestants, and to establish the Catholic Church's true teachings and traditions.
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What is humanism?
A way of thinking in the Renaissance that focused on human achievement.
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King Henry VIII
He was the king of England who founded his own church after being denied an annulment by the Catholic Church.
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What was the practice of selling indulgences?
The Church gave indulgences in exchange for money, which should not be received just by buying them.
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What was the Black Plague?
A disease that killed off a third of the world's population.
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What does the word "renaissance" mean?
Rebirth
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Who was Martin Luther?
He was a German monk who saw problems in the Church, so he left and started his own Church (Lutheran). He posted a list of objections on a castle door in Germany.
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What is Protestantism?
Any group of Christians that broke away from the Catholic Church.
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What is perspective?
A technique used in paintings to make objects look closer or farther away in the picture, started in the Renaissance.
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What civilizations did people during the Renaissance model their culture and art after?
Greek and Roman
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