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Renaissance: Vocabulary
#1 What does the word renaissance mean? rebirth
#2 What word means worldly? secular
#3 What do we call the language spoken in a person’s own region? vernacular
#4 What word means to be released from all or part of the punishment of sin? indulgence
#5 What was Calvin’s idea that God had determined in advance who would be saved and who would be damned? predestination
Renaissance Literature
#1 Who wrote the book The Prince? Nicclolo Machiaveli
#2 Who authored The Canterbury Tales? Geoffrey Chaucer
#3 Who wrote the Ninety-five Theses and started the Protestant Reformation? Martin Luther
#4 What practice of the church did Luther's Ninety-five Theses attack? the sell of indulgence
#5 What are the three parts of the divine comedy and what is it about? inferno (#!!##!!##!!##!!#), purgatory, paradise (heaven); Dante's journey through all three realms until he reaches God
Renaissance Men
#1 Who sculpted David of the Bible and painted the Sistine Chapel? Michaelangelo
#2 Who mastered the art of realistic painting with the Mona Lisa and the last Supper and dissected human bodies to see how nature worked? Leonardo Da Vinci
#3 Who was admired for his Madonnas (paintings of the Virgin Mary)? Raphael
#4 Who was the Holy Roman Emperor at the Edict of Worms and during the fighting against the German-Lutheran Princes? Charles V
#5 Who was the “warrior-pope” that led armies against his enemies? Pope Julius II
Major Events of the Renaissance
#1 What city did the Spanish sack in 1527, which left them to be a dominant force in Italy? Rome
#2 What invention caused the ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation to spread so quickly? Guttenberg Printing Press
#3 What is the key intellectual movement of the Renaissance that focused on the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome? Humanism
#4 What agreement ended the religious warfare in Germany and what was forever lost with it? Peace of Augsburg and Christian Unity
#5 What were the three chief pillars of the Catholic Reformation? The Jesuits, the reform of the papacy, and the Council of Trent
Renaissance 'luck of the draw'
#1 Which city-state was the cultural center of the Renaissance in Italy? Florence
#2 What is a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints? Fresco
#3 Who in England annulled his own marriage because he was tired of waiting on the pope and wanted a son? King Henry VIII
#4 46. Who burned more than three hundred Protestants as part of an attempt to restore Catholicism as the main religion in England? Mary, Queen of Scotts or 'Bloody Mary'
#5 What did Protestants and Catholics do to the Anabaptists? The Protestants and Catholics drowned the Anabaptist as a form of persecution/eradication
Final Question
What were the final decrees of the Council of Trent? Both faith and good works were needed for salvation. The seven sacraments, the belief in purgatory and indulgences was upheld. The selling of indulgences, however, was forbidden.