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World History /
Renaissance & Protestant Reformation Study Guide
 Study Chapter 15 & 16 Vocabulary, and Important People: Johannes Gutenburg,
Niccolo Machiavelli, Jan van Eyck, Florence, Teresa of Avila, John Calvin, Charles V
1. Why were states able to function independently?
2. How did the human-focused style of the Renaissance artists affect the art?
3. What increased in Europe, as a result of movable type for printing?
4. What was humanists’ purpose for educating people?
5. How did Machiavelli’s view influence political activity?
6. What group made up the majority of the European population?
7. How did the growth of large monarchial states in the rest of Europe lead to problems
for Italy?
8. Why was Italy more urban than the rest of Europe?
9. How did art developed by Northern European artists during the Renaissance differ
from the art of Italian master artists?
10. What was the main way in which the works of Northern European Renaissance artists
differed from those of Italian artists?
11. When did the war between France and Spain for control of Italy reach a turning point?
12. Why did Venice become an important state?
13. Why did Erasmus criticize the Catholic Church?
14. Who did Martin Luther gain support from, to spread Lutheranism?
15. What was included in Protestantism’s new view of the family?
16. In which way were the Catholic and Protestant groups similar during the Reformation?
17. How did Martin Luther communicate his concerns about the Catholic Church?
18. What impact did the publication of Calvin’s writings have on the Protestant
Reformation?
19. What did Martin Luther’s Nine-Five Theses attack?
20. Along with the Catholic churches German rulers took control of what else?
21. The Catholic Church began to investigate abuses of the Church under the leadership of
whom?
22. How did Martin Luther believe that salvation could be achieved?
23. How did the Catholic Reformation revitalize the Catholic Church?
24. How did Christian humanists believe that people would become more pious?
25. What did Anabaptists refuse because of their religious beliefs?