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The Renaissance and Reformation Study Guide

What is Humanism and how did it influence the Renaissance and the Reformation?

What does Classical mean and how did it influence the Renaissance?

When did the Renaissance begin?

What advancements were made during the Renaissance in the areas below?
Art:

Literature:

Architecture:

Economics:

Science:
What was the main idea of Machiavellis political advice?

Who were the Medici and how did they help to spread the Renaissance?

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What factors helped to spread the Renaissance throughout Europe?

What is the Renaissance?

What is the Reformation?

What is excommunication?

What are indulgences?

Why did the following people break away from the Catholic Church?
Martin LutherJohn CalvinHenry VIII-

What effects came out of the Reformation?

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What was the Counter-Reformation and what did it include?

To know for the short answer:

What are the following people known for?
Johannes GutenbergIsabella IMiguel CervantesNicolas CopernicusAlbrecht DurerMichelangeloWilliam ShakespeareAndreas VesaliusLeonardo Da Vinci -

What are the main characteristics of Renaissance, Medieval and Classical

art?

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How did the printing press affect the spread of the Renaissance and the
Reformation?

Name AND EXPLAIN the 3 major causes for the Reformation.

Compare the Roman Catholic Church with the Protestant Church in the chart
below.

Protestant Catholics:
s:
Beliefs on
Salvation: (How
to get to heaven)
Religious
Authority: (Who
or what is in
charge)
Language used in
worship:
(In the 1500s)

What do they
have in Common?