Renaissance and Reformation

What invention helped diffuse ideas and provided more people the opportunity to read?

• mosaics
• printing press
• road sign
• newspaper

How did the Crusades help spark the Renaissance?

• Europeans wanted to spread learning to Asia.
• Europeans wanted to trade goods and ideas with Asia
• Europeans wanted to teach Christianity in Asia.
• Europeans wanted to end the Black Death.

What did humanism emphasize?

• All people must follow the code of honor.
• The church knew everything about the universe.
• All people have value and should maximize their potential.
• Some people were not able to better themselves

Why did people support Martin Luther?

• They too were unhappy with the Church.
• They wanted to read the Bible in German
• . Luther gave out indulgences.
• Luther was a popular priest in Wittenberg.

Why did Medieval Christians fear excommunication?

• Those cast out from their church had to leave their villages.
• Cut off from the church could not go to heaven.
• Those cast out from their church could not get work.
• Those cast out from their church could not rent property.

Martin Luther's attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church, due to corrupt practices, was initiated by what action?

•  invention of printing press
• forming the Council of Trent
• posting 95 Theses on church door
• start of the Thirty Years' War

Protestant reformers objected to the sale of indulgences by the church. What was an indulgence?

•  a tax break given to church clergy
• a type of prayer
• a document that excused a person's sins
• a papal bull

Who was the first person to start the Protestant Reformation

• John Calvin
• Marco Polo
• Martin Luther
• King Henry VIII

What was the most popular item to be printed during the Renaissance?

• Shakespeare's plays
• The Qur'an
• The Bible
• Martin Luther's 95 Theses

During the Protestant Reformation, what was Martin Luther protesting when he posted the 95 these?

• the treatment of Jews and Muslims
• the lack of government involvement in the church
• the lack of books available for common people to read and then think for themselves
• the abuses of power of the Catholic Church