Reformation & Italian Renaissance

Question 1

Martin Luther

Answer 1

a German monk, denounced the practice of granting indulgences, author of The 95 Theses

Question 2

Protestant Reformation

Answer 2

the movement to reform the Church headed by Protestants, German princes who supported Luther. They seized lands of the Church and stopped taxes

Question 3

Peasants’ Revolt

Answer 3

peasants started an armed rebellion against the Church and demanded the right to choose the priests. They also protested against the increase in their feudal dues

Question 4

Peace of Augsburg

Answer 4

allowed individual rulers to decide for themselves what religion their territory would follow

Question 5

Indulgence

Answer 5

the decrease in the punishment a sinner would suffer in purgatory after death

Question 6

Ulrich Zwingli

Answer 6

a priest, taught in Zurich, abolished the Catholic Mass, confessions, and indulgences

Question 7

John Calvin

Answer 7

• leader of the one of the best-organized Protestant movements
• stress all-powerfulness of God
• published Institutes of the Christian Religion, where he ordered his religious ideas in a clear way

Question 8

Huguenot

Answer 8

French Calvinists, who were powerful in southern France

Question 9

John Knox

Answer 9

took Calvinism to Scotland

Question 10

Anabaptist

Answer 10

people who argued that infants could not be baptizes as member of a church because they were too young to understand the Christian faith

Question 11

Ignatius Loyola

Answer 11

formed the Society of Jesus, wrote Spiritual Exercises, a manual that taught strict religious discipline

Question 12

Jesuits

Answer 12

Loyola’s followers that swore absolute obedience to the pope

Question 13

Index

Answer 13

the Catholic Church’s list of forbidden books

Question 14

Predestination

Answer 14

the idea that God has chosen who would be saved