Second Quarter Exam Review Guide
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The Renaissance began in what modern European country? Which city state is often referred to as the
“cradle of the Renaissance”?
The term Renaissance means:
The most dramatic change of the Renaissance was:
A release from all or part of the punishment for committing a sin is a(n):
Author of the “Praise of Folly” and an outspoken critic of the church:
Where did Martin Luther post his statement of ideas? Why here?
Why was Martin Luther excommunicated by the pope?
Did Luther recant at the Diet of Worms? Why/Why not?
Why couldn’t the Portuguese take the overland route to the Indies?
Why couldn’t the Portuguese take the Mediterranean sea route to the Indies?
What technology allowed late 15th century navigators to undertake blue water travel for the first time?
When the Spanish and the Portuguese began to argue about control of land in the New World, to whom did
they go to solve the problem? Why? How was the problem solved?
Directions: Answer the following question
Who set up a navigation school in Portugal to teach sailors?
Who was the first European to sail all the way around Africa to India?
What English navigator was considered a pirate because he raided Spanish settlements on the west coast of
the Americas?
Who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico?
Who conquered the Incas of Peru?
Who were tried to sail around the world, but was killed in the Philippines?
Who claimed the first island discovered in the New World?
What Protestant reformer believed that God knows in advance who is going to go to heaven and who is
not?
What Protestant reformer believed that people could be saved by grace and go to heaven by faith in God
alone?
Who supported and financed Columbus’s first voyage to sail west to the Indies?
Directions: Complete the following sentences.
What did Martin Luther seek to accomplish?
What steps did the Catholic Church eventually take to reform itself?
Why were the Portuguese seeking an all water route to India?
What three things spurred on European explorers even though they were risking their lives?
What were the most famous works of Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci?
What impact did the printing press have on the Renaissance?
Why didn’t Martin Luther support the Peasants Revolt?
After the Diet of Worms what happened to Martin Luther?
What was the Diet of Worms? What was the Edict of Worms?
What error did Columbus make when calculating the circumference of the earth?
What term means to sail around the world?
A Spanish soldier who fought for gold, glory, and God
Martin Luther’s statement of ideas/reforms was called the
Define the following terms:
conquistador
Middle Passage
circumnavigate
perspective
excommunication
vernacular
Identify the following:
His decision to split with the Catholic Church was for purely personal
and political reasons, not religious ones
He kidnapped and protected Martin Luther after Luther had been
declared an outlaw
He was referred to as the “Prince of Humanists”; had a huge effect on
Martin Luther
An ingenious architect; he solved the problem of how to build a dome
for the cathedral of Florence
As Holy Roman Emperor, he was torn between his loyalty to the Catholic
Church and his loyalty to his German subjects
Italian city-state considered the birthplace of the Renaissance
When the Muslims captured this city in 1453, European traders
had to find an alternate route to the Indies
Luther was called to this German town to renounce his beliefs and
writings
When Columbus first landed in the New World, he claimed the
island for Spain and called it this
Capital city of the Aztec Empire; conquered by the Spanish
Term that means to take back a previous statement
A person that holds beliefs that run contrary to Church doctrines
A person who is of mixed Spanish and Native American descent
System of labor employed by the Spanish that forced native Americans
to work in mines and on plantations
System of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than
divine or supernatural matters