WH Unit 3

Before the 1450s, it took five months to produce a single book. After the 1450s, five hundred books could be produced in five months. How did this technological advancement lead to cultural change?

• Universities became less influential as centers of learning.

• Traditional authorities could more easily control information.

• Greek and Latin works became less important among scholars.

• Ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation spread more quickly.

Which practice of the Catholic Church did Martin Luther criticize in his Ninety-Five Theses of 1517?

• selling indulgences

• preaching predestination

• publishing the Bible in German

• sending missionaries to America

What development helped to make books less expensive in Europe after the mid1400s?

• access to new markets in Asia

• the invention of the printing press

• censorship by the Catholic Church

• an economic crisis caused by the plague

What was one result of the increase of books in the vernacular, such as Johann Gutenberg’s version of the Bible?

• More people were encouraged to learn how to read.

• People became more dependent on the Catholic clergy

• Universities became less important as centers of learning.

• People became less interested in ancient works written in Latin or Greek.

Which statement best explains why the Renaissance first developed in cities like Florence and Venice?

• They had monasteries where ancient works were kept

• They had universities where scholars studied and taught.

• They were economic centers where people exchanged goods and ideas.

• They were governed by a united kingdom that spent money on the arts.

Italian interest in classical tradition came from what?

• a concentration of the Italian population in rural villages

• the Roman heritage in Italy and contact with Eastern scholars.

• Italy’s use of Latin as the vernacular

• . centuries of Greek rule by Sicily

Famous playwright inspired by the Greek and Roman classics who wrote works like Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth was...

• Thomas More

• William Shakespeare

• Niccolò Machiavelli

• John Calvin

How did movements like the Protestant Reformation contribute to the rise of nation-states?

• It ended the practice of serfdom.

• It gave the right of self-government.

• It united all Christians under one leader.

• It challenged the absolute power of the pope.

By traveling to Italy, this engraver artist helped move renaissance ideas to northern Europe. Who was the artist?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Hubert van Eyck

• Albrecht Dürer

• Thomas More

King Louis XIV of France

• Believed in divine right

• Declared “I am the state”

• Removed power from the nobles

• Increased the power of appointed officials

• Canceled the Edict of Nantes

Which political system did King Louis XIV support?

• . direct democracy

• state socialism

• absolute monarchy

• constitutional republic