Renaissance and Reformation Quiz

Inventor of the printing press

• Johann Gutenberg

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Martin Luther

• William Shakespeare

Writer of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet

• Erasmus

• William Shakespeare

• Machiavelli

• Thomas More

Painter of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculptor of David

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Albrecht Dürer

• Erasmus

Spread of disease carried by fleas on rats; killed 1/3 of Europe’s population

• Bubonic Plague

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Humanism

Early humanist thinker; wrote Praise of Folly

• Erasmus

• Machiavelli

• Thomas More

• Martin Luther

Author of Utopia, promoted religious tolerance and separation of church/government

• Thomas More

• Machiavelli

• Erasmus

• Martin Luther

German monk who posted 95 Theses, began Protestant Reformation

• Martin Luther

• John Calvin

• Henry VIII

• Johann Gutenberg

Jesuits; Catholic missionaries trying to win people back to Catholicism

• The Jesuits

• The Huguenots

• The Calvinists

• The Anabaptists

Intellectual movement that emphasized secular learning and questioning

• Humanism

• Reformation

• Skepticism

• Patronage

The ______________ was a meeting where the Catholic Church responded to Protestant complaints.

• Council of Trent

• Diet of Worms

• Peace of Augsburg

• Edict of Nantes