Second Quarter Exam Review GuideNAME______

The Renaissance began in what modern European country? Which city state is often referred to as the “cradle of the Renaissance”?

The term Renaissance means:

The most dramatic change of the Renaissance was:

A release from all or part of the punishment for committing a sin is a(n):

Author of the “Praise of Folly” and an outspoken critic of the church:

Where did Martin Luther posthis statement of ideas? Why here?

Why was Martin Luther excommunicated by the pope?

Did Luther recant at the Diet of Worms? Why/Why not?

Why couldn’t the Portuguese take the overland route to the Indies?

Why couldn’t the Portuguese take the Mediterranean sea route to the Indies?

What technology allowed late 15th century navigators to undertake blue water travel for the first time?

When the Spanish and the Portuguese began to argue about control of land in the New World, to whom did they go to solve the problem? Why? How was the problem solved?

Directions: Answer the following question

Who set up a navigation school in Portugal to teach sailors?

Who was the first European to sail all the way around Africa to India?

What English navigator was considered a pirate because he raided Spanish settlements on the west coast of the Americas?

Who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico?

Who conquered the Incas of Peru?

Who were tried to sail around the world, but was killed in the Philippines?

Who claimed the first island discovered in the New World?

What Protestant reformer believed that God knows in advance who is going to go to heaven and who is not?

What Protestant reformerbelieved that people could be saved by grace and go to heaven by faith in God alone?

Who supported and financed Columbus’s first voyage to sail west to the Indies?

Directions: Complete the following sentences.

What did Martin Luther seek to accomplish?

What steps did the Catholic Churcheventually take to reform itself?

Why were the Portuguese seeking an all water route to India?

What three things spurred on European explorers even though they were risking their lives?

What were the most famous works of Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci?

What impact did the printing press have on the Renaissance?

Why didn’t Martin Luther support the Peasants Revolt?

After the Diet of Worms what happened to Martin Luther?

What was the Diet of Worms? What was the Edict of Worms?

What error did Columbus make when calculating the circumference of the earth?

What term means to sail around the world?

A Spanish soldier who fought for gold, glory, and God

Martin Luther’s statement of ideas/reforms was called the

Define the following terms:

conquistador

Middle Passage

circumnavigate

perspective

excommunication

vernacular

Identify the following:

His decision to split with the Catholic Church was for purely personal

and political reasons, not religious ones

He kidnapped and protected Martin Luther after Luther had been

declared an outlaw

He was referred to as the “Prince of Humanists”; had a huge effect on

Martin Luther

An ingenious architect; he solved the problem of how to build a dome

for the cathedral of Florence

As Holy Roman Emperor, he was torn between his loyalty to the Catholic

Church and his loyalty to his German subjects

Italian city-state considered the birthplace of the Renaissance

When the Muslims captured this city in 1453, European traders

had to find an alternate route to the Indies

Luther was called to this German town to renounce his beliefs and

writings

When Columbus first landed in the New World, he claimed the

island for Spain and called it this

Capital city of the Aztec Empire; conquered by the Spanish

Term that means to take back a previous statement

A person that holds beliefs that run contrary to Church doctrines

A person who is of mixed Spanish and Native American descent

System of labor employed by the Spanish that forced native Americans

to work in mines and on plantations

System of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than

divine or supernatural matters