What two ancient civilizations gained importance during the Renaissance?
What is Greece and Rome
100
What is the time period where people questioned the Catholic Church and began many new protestant religions called?
What is the Reformation
100
What is the long list of arguments written by Martin Luther that stated reasons why the selling of Indulgences was wrong called?
What is the 95 Theses
100
Who invented the movable type printing press?
Who is Johannes Gutenberg
200
What is a vernacular language?
What is the language that the everyday person can speak
200
What is Humanism?
What is someone who is more concerned with life here on Earth as opposed to religion and the afterlife
200
What was the lasting effect of the Puritans on American history?
What is they came to America (colonized America)
200
How did the Catholic Church punish Martin Luther for the 95 Theses?
What is they excommunicated him (kicked him out of the Catholic Church)
200
Who is the Protestant Reformer who believed that outward actions were not what mattered to God. The only thing that mattered was inner faith and a personal relationship with God.
What is Martin Luther
300
How were books written during the Middle Ages compared to the Renaissance?
What is...
During the Middle Ages they were written in Latin and during the Renaissance they were written in the vernacular
300
This term means someone who is good at many different subjects
What is a "Renaissance Man"
300
Why did the Catholic Church lose power?
What is the Reformation (because people were leaving the Catholic Church to practice other religions)
300
How does Martin Luther react to being punished by the Catholic Church?
What is he started his own religion called Lutheranism
300
Who was the leading/wealthiest family in Florence who helped promote the Renaissance?
Who is the Medici family
400
Name three ways that Renaissance Art was different than Medieval Art
What is...
1. was realistic and emotional
2. showed the beauty of the human body
3. Used perspective and shadowing to get a three dimensional effect
400
What are three reasons the Renaissance began in Italy?
What is...
1. trade promoted the spread of goods and learning
2. Competition between city-states
3. Inspired by Greek and Roman writings and ruins
400
Why did Protestantism not flourish in Spain?
What is because its leaders tortured and killed thousands of non-Catholics as a part of the Inquisition (the organization that persecuted anyone who was not Catholic)
400
What did Humanists believe about the Catholic Church?
What is they questioned the Catholic Church and encouraged people to be more secular (focused on the world around them instead of religion)
400
Who the person who secretly studied Martin Luther while in college. This person believed in Predestination.
Who is John Calvin
500
The spreading of learning and knowledge, foundation of schools, and books being printed more cheaply and easily resulted from...
What is the movable type printing press
500
What are four things that caused the Renaissance?
What is...
1. a sense of safety
2. the spread of information from the past and other places 3. trade from Asia and Africa
4. Patronage of wealthy families
500
What are three reasons Martin Luther objected to the Catholic Church?
What is because he believed...
1. Indulgences were wrong
2. Inner beliefs mattered more than outward actions
3. Only God could decide who did and did not go to Heaven
500
Was the Catholic Counter-Reformation successful? Why or Why not?
What is NO because they did not really make many changes. (All they did was stop selling indulgences)
500
Who is the person that left the Catholic Church because he wanted a divorce. He moved to England and created his own Church of England and religion.