Who ruled Italian city states during the Renaissance?
Merchants.
Who painted Mona Lisa?
Da Vinci
Who created something that contributed to the rapid spread of Ideas during the Renaissance? and what did they create?
Gutenberg, printing press.
What kind of problems did Luther have with the Catholic church?
church leaders had grown wealthy, the church was selling indulgences, and bishops were providing church jobs for their relatives.
Gathering of Catholic leaders from 1545-1563 that supported Catholic beliefs and ended abuses of power in the church
Council of Trent.
Why did Italian Trade increase during the Renaissance?
Crusades created demand for goods from the East, and geography of Italy was located along Mediterranean trade routes
What did Renaissance painters use in their paintings to make them seem more realistic?
perspective
Who said that it is better to be feared than loved?
Machiavelli
Which reformer taught about predestination?
Calvin
Henry VIII's 1534 declaration that the king of England was the head of the church in England.
Act of Supremacy.
What was the name of the new interest in arts, learning, and culture that developed in Italy between 1350 and 1650?
The Renaissance?
What is humanism?
The belief that the individual has great worth and that reason is a primary way of finding truth.
Why might Petrarch have written biographies of ancient Roman?
To educate Europeans about the ideas of ancient Rome.
what is predestination?
the belief that God has decided ahead of time who will go to heaven and who will not.
A 1598 order of the French king that France would be officially Catholic, but that Huguenots would have freedom of worship.
Edict of Nantes.
Ferdinand and Isabella were strong supporters of:
The Roman Catholic Church, which was based in Italy.
Martin Luther believed that forgiveness truly came directly from ______.
God.
Why did ways of thinking change greatly in Europe between 1350 and 1650.
End of the Black death sparked a new interest in life, learning, and the arts.
How did Bloody Mary get her name?
She had hundreds of Protestants executed.
A 1555 treaty between the Holy Roman Emperor and German kings that each German king could choose the religion for their own kingdom.
Martin Luther believed that the Bible was more or less important than the words of the pope?
More.
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
The Catholic church set up seminaries as part of their response to:
The Protestant Reformation.
Why did people like Erasmus criticize the Catholic church?
They thought church leaders were too concerned with money, money, money, money. Money.
A new order of priests who attempted to bring Protestants back to the Catholic church.
Jesuits, or the Society of Jesus.