Causes of the Reformation
Martin Luther
People
The Plague
Vocabulary
100

This individual wrote the "95 Theses" starting the Reformation in Europe

Who is Martin Luther

100

area where Martin Luther started his movement

What is Germany

100

believed in predestination, your path to heaven or hell was already predestined at birth

Who is John Calvin

100

Historians believe the plague first started in this continent

What is Asia

100

The study of subjects, such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history

What is humanities

200

Invention that helped spread the ideas of the Reformation throughout Europe

What is the printing press

200

Luther believed this was the only way to gain salvation and reach heaven

What is faith alone

200

had six wives, created the Anglican Church or Church of England


Bonus 600 points! Identify each wife and the fates of each!

Who is Henry VIII

Who are: Catherine - divorced, Anne - beheaded, Jane - died, Catherine - divorced, Anne - beheaded, Catherine - survived

200

This creature carried the plague and transferred it to humans

What is a flea

200

Government run by religious leaders

What is theocracy

300

The movement started by Martin Luther which divided Christians into Protestant and Catholic

What is the Reformation

300

The list of complaints Martin Luther wrote to the Catholic Church

What is Ninety-Five Theses

300

The man who observed the movement of planets and FIRST made the heliocentric theory

Who is Nicolaus Copernicus

300

Identify three reactions of people when the disease started killing people

What is locked their doors, burned houses and villages, blamed the Jews, panicked, ran and hid, etc.

300

Permanent division in the church, separating Protestant and Catholic

What is schism

400

a major complaint about the corruption of the Catholic Church

What is indulgences

400

Catholic priests cannot do this, but Luther believed it was fine

What is to marry, marriage

400

The man who invented the telescope and was forced to recant his heliocentric theory by the church

Who is Galileo

400

Another disease which spreads quickly and has no effective cure--currently spreading through the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

What is ebola

400

Recognize a person as a saint

What is canonize

500
The reason Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church

What is Pope Leo would not grant Henry VIII a divorce

500

Martin Luther was excommunicated by the Catholic Church, which means

What is kicked out of the church

500

The scientist who said that the planets are in "free fall" through his theory of Gravity and Motion

Who is Isaac Newton

500

The name given the Black Death in present day.

What is bubonic plague

500

Calvinist belief that God long ago determined who would gain salvation

What is predestination