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WorksheetsRenaissance and Reformation Vocabulary
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
What does the term "Heliocentric" refer to?
A method used to confirm scientific findings
A belief that the sun is the center of the universe
A person who provides financial support for the arts
An intellectual movement during the Italian Renaissance
What was the Renaissance?
A religious belief that is contrary to the official teachings of the church
A period of great creativity and change in Europe from the 1300s through the 1600s
A period in the 1500s and 1600s where traditional ideas were challenged
A Polish astronomer who proposed the sun-centered model of the universe
What is the Scientific Method?
A period in the 1500s and 1600s of scientific challenges to traditional ideas
A painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis
The act of canceling or invalidating something
A belief that salvation is gained through faith alone
What does "Secular" mean?
Related to religious matters
Based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe
Having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters
A person who provides financial support for the arts
What is the main belief of Calvinism?
Salvation is gained through faith alone and the Bible is the source of religious truth
The sun is the center of the universe
A person who provides financial support for the arts
A method used to confirm scientific findings
What does "Annul" mean according to the Catholic Church?
To confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis
To cancel or invalidate (in the RCC applies to marriage)
To support the heliocentric theory
To provide financial support for the arts
What is heresy?
A period of great creativity and change in Europe
A painstaking method used to confirm findings
A religious belief that is contrary to the official teachings of the church
The act of providing financial support for the arts
What is an indulgence in according to the Roman Catholic Church?
A list of complaints against the Church
A period of religious transformation
Pardon for sins committed during a person's life
A French reformer's teachings
What are the 95 Theses?
The idea that God has predetermined who will gain salvation
A French Protestant reformer's teachings
A German monk's call for revolution
A list of 95 arguments against indulgences posted by Martin Luther on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517
What does predestination refer to?
The period when Europeans broke away from the Roman Catholic Church
The idea that God long ago determined who will gain salvation
A list of 95 arguments against indulgences
A German monk's call for revolution
What was the Protestant Reformation?
The period when Europeans broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and formed new Christian churches
A list of 95 arguments against indulgences
The teachings of a French Protestant reformer
The idea that God has predetermined who will gain salvation
Who was John Calvin?
The German monk who began the Protestant Revolution
The French Protestant reformer who preached predestination
The person who posted the 95 Theses
The leader who determined the concept of indulgences
Who began the Protestant Revolution with the 95 Theses?
John Calvin
A French Protestant reformer
Martin Luther
An unnamed German monk
Name the intellectual movement that focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious ones
Ethnocentrism
Communism
Humanism
Democracy
What is a person who provides financial support for the arts called?
A Catholic
A patron
An artist
A Protestant
What happens if you recant?
Start your own Christian religion
Put on the list of banned books
Kicked out of the Roman Catholic Church
Forced to give up one’s views or beliefs
Which period during the Renaissance included scientific thinkers challenging traditional ideas, while using observation, and experimentation?
Predestination
The Scientific Revolution
Calvinism
The Protestant Reformation
Name the Polish astronomer who proposed the sun-centered model of the universe.
Copernicus
Galileo
Leonardo Da Vinci
Machiavelli
Name the Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor who created the Mona Lisa.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Martin Luther
Michelangelo
John Calvin
Name the Italian Renaissance astronomer who supported the heliocentric theory and built a telescope.
Copernicus
Leonardo Da Vinci
John Calvin
Galileo Galilei
An Italian Renaissance sculptor, engineer, architect, poet, and painter of the Sistine Chapel
Donatello
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Martin Luther
An English scientist who discovered gravity; worked with physics and astronomy
Sir Isaac Newton
John Calvin
Galileo Galilei
Name the English playwright and poet of numerous comedies, tragedies, and histories
Niccolo Machiavelli
William Shakespeare
Leonardo da Vinci
Sir Isaac Newton
