Key People of the Reformation and Renaissance

Renaissance and Reformation

by Austin Woodside

Multiple Choice

True or False: Leonardo Da Vinci believed that it was important for people learn.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Machiavelli believed leaders should be feared or loved?

• Loved

• Feared

• Neither

​Renaissance led to Reformation

• ​Since the Renaissance was a time to focus on humans ...

• ​Humans started to question the leadership of the church.

• ​----------------------------------------------

• ​Humans were learning about some of the unfairness they lived through as a result of corruption in the Catholic Church.

• This inspired Martin Luther...

Poll

What did you find most interesting from the video?

• Luther showed integrity by translating the bible for the poor.

• Luther started the Reformation by writing the 95 theses;

• Martin Luther is the reasons there are Lutherans and Catholics (Christian subgroups) today.

• How goofy the animated cartoons looked.

Multiple Choice

What action did Martin Luther take to begin the Protestant Reformation?

• He disagreed with the pope and slandered his name.

• He posted 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg.

• He started a theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland.

• He invented the printing press to spread his ideas.

Multiple Choice

Henry VIII (8th) was motivated to break from the Catholic Church because...

• He needed a daughter to take over after his death.

• Henry needed an annulment so he could re-marry and have a son.

• He as a follower of Luther and disagreed with indulgences.

• His wife Catherine was a Protestant and she influenced him to break with the Pope.

Poll

What did you find most interesting about Henry VIII?

• He executed several of his wives.

• He blamed his wife for not birthing him a son to take over his thrown.

• Henry VIII's actions were a part of the Reformation where people left Catholicism.

• Henry VIII was a scholar and an athlete.

Open Ended

Based on the previous document, explain why the printing press was important for the Renaissance.

Multiple Choice

The printing press increased these two things in Europe:

• Knowledge and literacy.

• Wars and literacy.

• Corruption and knowledge.

• Religious belief and wars

Multiple Choice

Protestantism resulted from the Reformation. Protestantism became popular mostly in what part of Europe?

• Eastern Europe

• Northern Europe

• Southern Europe

• Western Europe

Open Ended

What was or what is your favorite book?