Renaissance and Reformation

Question 1

Italian Renaissance

Answer 1

period of European history that began in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe

Question 2

Urban society

Answer 2

system in which cities are the center of political, social, and economic life

Question 3

Secular

Answer 3

way to view the world- more focused on material things than spiritual things

Question 4

Mercenaries

Answer 4

soldiers who sold their services to the highest bidder

Question 5

Cosimo de’Medici

Answer 5

man whose family dominated Florence when it was the cultural center of Italy

Question 6

Dowry

Answer 6

sum of money that the wife’s family gave to the husband upon marriage

Question 7

Humanism

Answer 7

idea that focuses on humans/ people and that believes that people are capable of reason

Question 8

Vernacular

Answer 8

language/dialect spoken in a writer’s own region

Question 9

Fresco

Answer 9

painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paint

Question 10

Martin Luther

Answer 10

began the Protestant Reformation

Question 11

Christian Humanism

Answer 11

movement also called Northern Renaissance Humanism- painted what they saw and how they saw it

Question 12

Salvation

Answer 12

acceptance into heaven

Question 13

Indulgence

Answer 13

release from part or all punishment for sin

Question 14

Edict of Worms

Answer 14

edict that made Martin Luther an outlaw in the empire

Question 15

Lutheranism

Answer 15

first Protestant faith

Question 16

Peace of Augsburg

Answer 16

accepted division of Christianity in Germany

Question 17

Predestination

Answer 17

idea that God had determined in advance who would be saved and who wouldn’t

Question 18

Annul

Answer 18

to declare something invalid