Reformation/Scientific Revolution Study Guide

By the tenth century who dominated religious life in Northern and Western Europe?

• Roman Catholic Church

• Islam

• Orthodox Church

• Knuthism

What are Indulgences

• Means you were kicked out of the church

• The Church's cookies at the bake sale

• The right for the church to take you land

• A pardon which released a sinner from performing the penalty a priest imposed for sins.

What was the Reformation?

• A series of religious wars being fought over the holy land

• Years of new scientific inventions

• Catholic Church gains more power throughout Europe

• A movement trying to reform the Catholic Church

What started the Reformation

• Martin Luther's "95 Theses"

• Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"

• Galileo's "telescope"

• Copernicus "Heliocentric system"

What were Martin Luther's "95 Theses" about

• Arguments against the king

• Church corruption more specifically priests selling indulgences

• A letter to get his grade up in Social Studies Class

Martin Luther believed Church teachings should be based on

• The Bible

• The Pope's word

• Church Traditions

• You shouldn't believe in the church

What was the Church's initial response to Martin Luther's actions

• Excommunication

• Accepted his ideas

• Killed him

• Put in him jail

The princes in Germany that supported Luther's ideas banded together and became known as

• Muslims

• Catholics

• Protestants

• Team Martin

What was Aristotle's "Geocentric Theory"

• The planets revolve around the sun

• Earth was an unmoving object at the center of the universe

• First person to invent geometry

What is the Heliocentric system

• Earth and planets revolve around the sun

• Sun and planets revolve around the sun

• Sun and planets revolve around you

• Sun and planets revolve around Heaven