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Renaissance and Reformation
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09/21/2009

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What was the predominate religion during the Middle Ages?
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Roman Catholic
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Who was the head of the Roman Catholic Church?
Definition
The pope.
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What was the punishment the Roman Catholic Church did in response to Martin Luther refusing to apologize for writing the 59 Thesis?
Definition
excommunication
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What did Martin Luther object to the Catholic Church doing?
Definition
Selling indulgences and other corruption.
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What was buying and selling of church postions called?
Definition
lay investiture
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What was the extreme measure that was used to punish heritics?
Definition
They were burned at the stake.
Term
What does vernacular mean?
Definition
Speaking in a regional language.
Term
What does justification mean?
Definition
Being made right before God.
Term
What does the word Renaissance mean?
Definition
Rebirth
Term
What does secular mean?
Definition
Worldly
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What was the Edict of Wurms?
Definition
Paper that the Catholic Church wrote that excommunicated Martin Luther from the church and declared him an outlaw and heretic.
Term
What was the 95 Thesis?
Definition
Formal statements written by Martin Luther that attacked the actions of the Catholic Church.
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What were indulgences?
Definition
The Catholic Church allowed people to pay money to pardon them from sin.
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How were the main beliefs in the Renaissance and the Reformation different?
Definition
The Renaissance focused on humanism and the Reformation focused on the religious.
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Who was Nicolas Capernicus and what did he believe?
Definition
The father of modern astromy that believed the Earth revolved around the Sun.
Term
Who invented the moveable type printing press?
Definition
Johannes Gutenburg
Term
What were three things the printing press did?
Definition

1. It made copying faster.

2. It made printing inexpensive.

3. It allowed more access to other people's discoveries, etc. (which increased learning because the regular people could read it.)

Term
Where did the Renaissance begin?
Definition
Northern Italy
Term
Who wrote "The Prince"?
Definition
Machiavelli
Term
What did belief Machiavelli state in the book "The Prince"?
Definition
He said a prince should not act morally but in the best interest of the state on getting and keeping his power. (In other words,  Do whatever you can to get and stay in power-be ruthless.)
Term
Who were the wealth merchant class in Italy?
Definition
Medici
Term
What are patrons?
Definition
Supporters of the Arts
Term
What is a Renaissance Man?
Definition
A man that excelled in many fields.
Term
What is humanism?
Definition
The intellectural movement that focused on human potential and achievements.
Term
What concept did the Renaissance Man introduce?
Definition
All educated people should create art.
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What did Galileo do?
Definition
Verified Capernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the sun.
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Why did King Henry VIII of England leave the Catholic Church and start the Anglican Church?
Definition
The pope refused to anul Henry's marriage.
Term
The Renaissance grew out of new ideas combined with ideas from where?
Definition
Greece and Rome
Term
Renaissance artists used the principle of what to give the illusion of depth?
Definition
perspective
Term
Who was the Renaissance artist commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Definition
Michelangelo
Term
What were Luther's three main ideas?
Definition

1. People only win salvation by God's forgiveness, not by good works.

2. All church teaching should be based on the bible, not authorities like the pope.

3.  All people of faith were equal so people don't need the priests to interpret the Bible for them.

Term
What was the historical period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Renaissance?
Definition
The Middle Ages
Term
Who was a Renaissance English writer that is still popular today?
Definition
William Shakespear
Term
Who was the Spanish explorer that sailed completely around the world?
Definition
Ferdinand Magellan
Term
What does the word "heretic" mean?
Definition
A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the Roman Catholic Church.
Term
What was the first Protestant religion?
Definition
Lutheran
Term
Who painted Mona Lisa and the Last Supper?
Definition
Leonardo De Vinci
Term
Who painted "The School of Athens"?
Definition
Rafael
Term
What was the central theme in John Calvin's teachings?
Definition
Predestination
Term
What did the Act of Supremacy do?
Definition
Made the king, not the pope, the head of the English church.
Term
What does annul mean?
Definition
To set aside.
Term
What was the Peace of Augsburg?
Definition
A document that provided religious tolerance and made the division of Christianity legal. (It allowed both Catholic and Protestant religions to become legal and allowed people to choose.)
Term
Perspective is used in which form of art?
Definition
Paintings and other two dimensional art.
Term
What does excommunication mean?
Definition
Being cut off from the church.
Term
Because the Reformation spread education, what was it associated with?
Definition
The Renaissance
Term
What did the Reformation cause?
Definition
The establishment of Protestant churches.
Term
What was the purpose of the Catholic Reformation?
Definition
To strengthen and spread the Catholic religion in response to Protestantism.
Term
Who said "It is safer to be feared than loved"?
Definition
Machiavelli
Term
What were three protestant religions?
Definition
Lutheran, Calvanism, and Anglican.
Term
Renaissance art was more _____ than the Middle Ages?
Definition
realistic
Term
Who were three famous women of the Renaissance?
Definition
Isabella De Este, Cartarina Sforza, and Catherine d'Medici
Term
What is the central idea of protestanism?
Definition
Justification by faith.
Term
Who were three famous writers during the Renaissance?
Definition
Erasmus, Thomas More, and Petriach.
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