Ch 10 Renaissance

Question 1

Characteristics of European Renaissance

Answer 1

• urban society
• long distance trade increased
• focus on humanities
• celebrate individual achievements

Question 2

Renaissance renewed interest in..

Answer 2

Art, literature, science, learning

Question 3

What are the humanities?

Answer 3

Subjects like grammar, rhetoric, poetry etc…

Question 4

Humanism

Answer 4

An emphasis on individual accomplishment, less religious, more secular

Question 5

What caused the Renaissance?

Answer 5

• increased trade
• growth of city-states
• interest in Greek/roman art
• rise of wealthy merchants
• desire for scientific knowledge

Question 6

What was Renaissance art like?

Answer 6

• Reflected human concerns
• realistic
• perspective

Question 7

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 7

Renaissance man, painted Mona Lisa

Question 8

Painted Cistine chapel, sculpted David

Answer 8

Michelangelo

Question 9

Painted “school of Athens”

Answer 9

Rafael

Question 10

Wrote the prince

Answer 10

Niccolo Machiavelli

Question 11

What were Niccolo’s ways

Answer 11

Harsh, no morality in gov, cruelty is only way

Question 12

How did Renaissance ideas and art spread?

Answer 12

Through trade

Question 13

Johannes Gutenberg invented

Answer 13

Printing press

Question 14

The Roman Catholic Church had…

Answer 14

• power
• wealth
• corruption

Question 15

John Wycliffe

Answer 15

English priest who translated bible into English

Question 16

Jan Hus

Answer 16

Preached against church’s immorality, burned at stake

Question 17

Matin Luther

Answer 17

German priest, wrote 95 theses

Question 18

What are the 95 theses?

Answer 18

Grievances against the church

Question 19

ML translated bible into

Answer 19

German

Question 20

ML said that God’s grace…

Answer 20

Cannot be earned by works

Question 21

Protestant

Answer 21

Non Catholic Christian

Question 22

John Calvin

Answer 22

French, predestination, Calvinism

Question 23

John Knox

Answer 23

Scottish, Presbyterian church

Question 24

Henry VIII

Answer 24

Wanted divorce, created Church of England

Question 25

Counter reformation

Answer 25

Church began reforms

Question 26

Jesuit

Answer 26

Concentrated on edu, renewed church spirituality, run like military, established schools and missions

Question 27

Council of Trent

Answer 27

Redefined doctrines of church, got rid of indulgences

Question 28

Inquisition

Answer 28

- Fight Protestants | - wanted religious uniformity

Question 29

Religious effects of Renaissance

Answer 29

- RCC no longer only power - sent missionaries to new world - Jews persecuted by all Christian groups

Question 30

Geocentric theory

Answer 30

Earth is center of universe

Question 31

Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon came up with...

Answer 31

Scientific Method

Question 32

Copernicus

Answer 32

Heliocentric universe

Question 33

Galileo

Answer 33

Built telescope, proved heliocentric theory, tried by inquisition

Question 34

Isaac Newton

Answer 34

Gravity, Calculus, laws of motion

Question 35

Biology discoveries

Answer 35

Circulatory system, cells, bacteria

Question 36

Robert Boyle

Answer 36

Atoms/molecules, affects on gasses

Question 37

Chemistry findings

Answer 37

- periodic table | - law of conservation of matter

Question 38

Science explained world through

Answer 38

Facts and reasoning

Question 39

What did the church think of this new science?

Answer 39

They didn't like it at first but they gradually accepted it

Question 40

Causes of scientific revolution

Answer 40

- Expansion of trade - development of scientific method - study if ancient authorities

Question 41

Effects of scientific revolution

Answer 41

- beginning of modern science - belief in reason - new view of universe

Question 42

Why was Italy a good location for the Renaissance historically?

Answer 42

It was the original center of Roman civilization

Question 43

What caused the Protestant reformation?

Answer 43

The church's abuse of power and greed for money

Question 44

Why were astronomers a threat to Church authority?

Answer 44

Their ideas challenged Christian beliefs; that the heavens were unmoving and perfect

Question 45

What made the scientific method so new?

Answer 45

They used to base science off of the bible and philosophy, but now they use experimentation and observation

Question 46

Sir Thomas Moore

Answer 46

Humanist, defined utopian society