Renaissance and Reformation

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

Rebirth of classical knowledge/art.

Question 2

Medici

Answer 2

Italian middle-class family that was known for being rich & bankers.

Question 3

Classical Learning

Answer 3

Learning traditions & other knowledge from Greece and Rome.

Question 4

Humanism

Answer 4

Movement that recognized moral values, human experience, common humanity, and reason.

Question 5

Secular

Answer 5

Things that are non-religious; acting away from the Church.

Question 6

Patron

Answer 6

A person or group of being paying for someone’s art.

Question 7

Moveable Type

Answer 7

A type of printing; you rearrange the letters (metal).

Question 8

Da Vinci

Answer 8

Italian renaissance artist; renaissance man.

Question 9

William Shakespeare

Answer 9

English poet who created a new way of writing plays (captures human emotion and experience).

Question 10

Vernacular

Answer 10

A language that is less sophisticated; non-Latin.

Question 11

Protestant Reformation

Answer 11

A religious reform movement that focuses on the individual and the bible (against the church).

Question 12

Martin Luther

Answer 12

German priest who started the protestant reformation by writing the 95 theses.

Question 13

95 Theses

Answer 13

95 written complaints that went against the Catholic church.

Question 14

Indulgences

Answer 14

Forgiveness of sins by giving payments.

Question 15

Peace of Augsbrug

Answer 15

Settlement between lutheranism and catholicism in Germany to help them coexist (1555).