Renaissance And The Reformation

Question 1

What does Renaissance mean and in what language?

Answer 1

Renaissance means rebirth in French

Question 2

The Renaissance was a time when people started to _____________ existing ideas

Answer 2

Question

Question 3

Where was the Renaissance considered to have started?

Answer 3

Florence

Question 4

The Renaissance marks the end of what period in history?

Answer 4

Middle Ages

Question 5

Renaissance thinkers studied the writing and works of Greeks and ————–

Answer 5

Romans

Question 6

What was the name for the new way of thinking - that people should be educated

Answer 6

Humanism

Question 7

At the start of the Renaissance Italy was divided up into many of these….

Answer 7

City States

Question 8

What is the name of one of the most important, major coastal Italian city state?

Answer 8

Venice

Question 9

Italian city states _______________ with each other to be the best

Answer 9

Competed

Question 10

Renaissance art was more______________ than that of the Middle Ages

Answer 10

Realistic

Question 11

Who was a leading Renaissance polymath

Answer 11

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 12

What is a polymath?

Answer 12

A person who has knowledge and learning of many subjects

Question 13

Who was the sculptor and painter who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome?

Answer 13

Michaelangelo

Question 14

When did the Renaissance start?

Answer 14

1350-1400

Question 15

What did people start thinking in the Renaissance?

Answer 15

In the Renaissance people started thinking that life didn’t need to be hard
They started to think that art, science and music could make people’s lives better - this was a major change of thinking

Question 16

What were three of the main city states?

Answer 16

Venice
Milan
Florence

Question 17

What had happened to Florence in the late 1300s?

Answer 17

It became wealthy

Question 18

What was encouraged by Florence’s new wealth?

Answer 18

Wealthy businessmen and merchants hired artists and craftspeople. Art began to flourish.

Question 19

Who was the first Renaissance painter?

Answer 19

Giotto di Bondone

Question 20

How did paintings change during the Renaissance?

Answer 20

Previously they had been abstract during the Middle Ages, now (in the Renaissance) people painted objects as realistically as they could.

Question 21

Name three Renaissance artists

Answer 21

Giotto
Michaelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci

Question 22

What were people starting to complain about in the 16th century?

Answer 22

The Catholic Church being too wealthy, out of touch and corrupt

Question 23

Which group had led complaints about the Catholic Church before Martin Luther ?

Answer 23

The Lollards

Question 24

Why were followers of Martin Luther’s criticism of the Catholic Church called Protestants?

Answer 24

Because they protested against the Catholic Church

Question 25

What were Luther’s three main complaints against the Catholic Church?

Answer 25

1) too wealthy - priests were in luxury and many normal people were in poverty
2) services and the Bible were in Latin which meant ordinary people could not understand
3) the Church sold indulgences and side chapel extensions to a church. This suggests that rich people could buy their way into heaven, not fair.

Question 26

Why did Henry VIII change the Church?

Answer 26

1) He wanted a new wife to give him a son and heir
2) he needed the money for his war with France
3) He didn’t trust the clergy or their Pope and wanted to control the Church

Question 27

Why did Henry close the monasteries?

Answer 27

1) They were corrupt with monks living a luxury life
2) Henry VIII needed the money (and land) for his foreign battles
3) he felt the Bishops etc were too powerful and he decided

Question 28

How was Mass different for Catholics and Protestant?

Answer 28

Catholics believe that the bread and wine turn into the body and blood of Jesus.
Protestants believe the wine and bread are purely symbolic .

Question 29

How is the Priest different for Catholics and Protestants?

Answer 29

Catholic:people’s only communication with God, so confession to the Priest mattered.

Protestant: useful to explain Bible but then people could communicate with God without confession. Protestant priests could marry

Question 30

How did the Altar differ in Roman Catholic and Protestant scenarios?

Answer 30

In Catholicism the altar is a special place, highly decorated

In Protestantism, the altar is a plain table used to put the commemorative bread and wine on

Question 31

How was the Bible seen differently by Protestants and Catholics?

Answer 31

Catholics: saw Bible as written in Latin and only understood by trained priests

Protestantism: saw Bible translated to English so everyone could access it.

Question 32

How did Church decoration differ for Catholics and Protestants?

Answer 32

Catholic Churches were decorated with art and stain glass windows to help children understand the story.

Protestant churches were very plain so that people could concentrate on the word of God in the Bible.

Question 33

How did Catholics and Protestants see ‘good works’ differently?

Answer 33

Catholics saw it as essential to show that you have faith with good works and donations to keep on track for heaven.

Protestants said PREDESTINATION before birth had already determined who would go to heaven or hell

Question 34

After the Reformation, who was the head of the Catholic Church and of the Protestant church?

Answer 34

The pope was the head of the Catholic Church

The Monarch was the head of the church in England