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World Civilizations
Renaissance and Reformation – Study Guide

Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Make sure to number each question so that I can tell that you have completed the entire assignment. Also, every answer may not be on your guided notes. Your textbook is also a good source of information.

1. What does the term Renaissance mean?

2. Which artist was responsible for painting the Sistine Chapel and sculpting the statue of David?

3. Who were Henry VIII’s wives?

4. Who made up the new wealthy class in Italy during the time of the Renaissance?

5. What is predestination? In who’s religious teaching is it a central theme?

6. Why did Martin Luther write the 95 theses?

7. Why did Henry VIII split from the Catholic Church?

8. How did Pope Leo X punish Martin Luther for his writing of the 95 theses?

9. Where did the Renaissance begin?

10. List two famous paintings by Leonardo Di Vinci.

11. What is a patron? Why were they important to the Renaissance?

12. What important invention did Johanne Gutenberg provide to the Renaissance?

13. Who was the founder of the Presbyterians?

14. What church did Henry VIII create?

15. Who founded the Jesuits?

16. What were the goals of the Jesuits?

17. What is a key belief of the Anabaptists?

18. Where was movable type first used?

19. Who wrote Utopia?

20. How did Martin Luther think people gained salvation?

21. What act made Henry the head of the church?

22. Define VERNACULAR.

23. The intellectual and cultural movement known as humanism arose from the study of what?

24. Where did the term “protestant” come from?

25. Where was Martin Luther from?

26. What was the main reason that drove Martin Luther to write his 95 theses?

27. Define EXCOMMUNICATION.

28. Who were some important women in the Renaissance?

29. Why was Italy the birthplace of the Renaissance?

30. The books of Machiavelli and Castiglione concerned what?

31. What were the three ideas of Greece and Rome that the Renaissance focused on?

32. Define humanism

33. Who were some famous authors from northern Europe during the Renaissance?

34. What is a theocracy?

35. Why does Henry VIII form the Church of England?

36. What happened at the Council of Trent?

37. What did the Roman Inquisition do? What country had its own inquisition?

38. People feared witchcraft. What were they convicted of? How many people?

39. What is the legacy of the Reformation?