The revival of art and learning that occurred between 1300 and 1600.
What is the Renaissance
the name given to a man who excelled in many fields
What is a Renaissance man
The device that made it possible to produce books quickly and cheaply thus increasing literacy throughout Europe.
What is the printing press
The movement for religious reform started by Martin Luther
What is the Reformation
a government controlled by religious leaders
What is a theocracy
The birthplace of the Renaissance
What is Italy
an artistic technique that gives the appearance of three dimensions to a two dimensional painting.
what is perspective
the inventor of the printing press
Who is Johann Gutenberg
Christians who belong to a non catholic church
What are protestants
Followers of John Knox
Who are Presbyterians
The disease that killed up to 60% of the population of Europe in the 1300's
What is the Bubonic Plague
the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region
What is vernacular
The selling of forgiveness of sin
What is an Indulgence
English King who broke from the Catholic Church because the Pope would not grant him an annulment
who is Henry VIII
Religious group that believed that church and state should be separated and they only baptized people who were old enough to decide to be Christians
Who are the Anabaptists
An intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements
What is Humanism
This was Thomas More's book about the ideal society
What is Utopia
The Catholic monk who protested the selling of forgiveness by the Catholic Church and began the Reformation.
Who was Martin Luther
The church created by Elizabeth I that was the only legal church in England
What is the Anglican Church
What members of "The Society of Jesus" were called
What is Jesuits
The word that means non-religious, worldly rather than spiritual
What is secular
The most famous English writer of the Elizabethan Age
Who is William Shakespeare
The formal statements written by Martin Luther and posted on the castle church door in Wittenberg Germany.
What are the 95 Theses
The idea that humans cannot earn salvation and that god has known since the beginning of time who will be saved
What is predestination
The council of Catholic Church leaders that met in a city in northern Italy and established several important doctrines one of which was a ban on selling indulgences
What is the Council of Trent