European Renaissance and Reformation - Chapter 17

Question 1

Period of rebirth of art and learning in Europe lasting from about 1300 to 1600

Answer 1

Renaissance

Question 2

Focus on human potential and achievements

Answer 2

Humanism

Question 3

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

Answer 3

Secular

Question 4

People who financially supported artists

Answer 4

Patrons

Question 5

Art technique that recreates three dimensions

Answer 5

Perspective

Question 6

Use of native language instead of classical Latin

Answer 6

Vernacular

Question 7

An ideal place

Answer 7

Utopia

Question 8

Famous Renaissance writer

Answer 8

William Shakespeare

Question 9

German craftsman who developed the printing press

Answer 9

Johann Gutenberg

Question 10

Release from punishments due for a sin

Answer 10

Indulgence

Question 11

16th-century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of new Christian churches

Answer 11

Reformation

Question 12

Member of a Protestant church founded on the teachings of Martin Luther

Answer 12

Lutheran

Question 13

Member of a Christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation

Answer 13

Protestant

Question 14

Agreement in 1555 declaring that the religion of each German state would be decided by its ruler

Answer 14

Peace of Augsburg

Question 15

Cancel or put an end to

Answer 15

Annul

Question 16

Relating to the Church of England

Answer 16

Anglican

Question 17

Doctrine that God has decided all things beforehand, including which people will be saved

Answer 17

Predestination

Question 18

Religious teachings based on the ideas of the reformer John Calvin

Answer 18

Calvinism

Question 19

Government controlled by religious leaders

Answer 19

Theocracy

Question 20

Member of a Protestant church governed by elders and founded by John Knox

Answer 20

Presbyterian

Question 21

Member of a Protestant group during the Reformation who believed only adults should be baptized. Also believed that church and state should be separate

Answer 21

Anabaptist

Question 22

16th-century Catholic reform movement in response to Protestant Reformation

Answer 22

Catholic Reformation

Question 23

Members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola

Answer 23

Jesuits

Question 24

Meeting of Roman Catholic leaders to rule on doctrines criticized by the Protestant reformers

Answer 24

Council of Trent