Unit 8: Renaissance and Reformation

Johann Gutenburg is responsible for the invention of the

• spinning wheel
• printing press
• Humanist style of painting
• Laws of motion and gravity

The ______________ criticized the Catholic Church

• Scientific Revolution
• Humanist philosophy
• Reformation
• Counter Reformation

The ______________ made people focus less on the Catholic Church and more on the "here and now"

• Scientific Revolution
• Humanist Philosophy
• Reformation
• Counter Reformation

The Renaissance was a time of 

• war
• decrease of knowledge
• increase of government
• discovery and creation

Humanism means

• that the power of the state was more important than individual liberty.
• that obedience to God was not as important as obedience to the state.
• that the individual has importance and his achievements should be celebrated.
• that the teachings of the ancient Greeks had no place in Renaissance thought.

UNLIKE painting from the Medieval Period, Renaissance artists

• worked only with granite
• only painted religious topics
• refused to take payments from wealthy patrons
• used light, shadow and perspective in their paintings

Martin Luther's ideas began the 

• Renaissance
• Scientific Revolution
• Reformation
• Counter Reformation

Renaissance authors like Dante and Petrarch emphasized the dignity and worth of the individual, which is known as 

• humanism
• realism
• classicism
• romanticism

The spread of ideas in the Renaissance and Reformation was most helped by

• new types of ships and trade
• Luther's religious conversion
• people's curiosity
• the printing press

The selling of indulgences helped cause the

• Renaissance
• Scientific Revolution
• Reformation
• Counter Reformation