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Chapter 14 Learning Packet
Chapter 14 Lesson 1 The Renaissance Begins Guided Reading
The Renaissance in Italy
Describing: The first column below asks questions about the Renaissance. Write your answers in the
second column.
The Renaissance
What is it?
Facts
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When did it happen?
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Where did it take place?
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What were the most important results of it?
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5. Identifying: What cultures were models for new Renaissance ideas?
6. Explaining: Why could cities pay artists to produce so much new work?
7. Assessing: How did city life help the development of the Renaissance?
The States of Italy
8. Summarizing: Summarize why the city-states did not unite to form one country.
9. Explaining: How did the location of the Italian city-states help them become successful in trade?
10. Making Connections: List three significant events that helped the Italian city-states succeed in trade.
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11. Identifying: What family controlled Florence, and how did it become wealthy and powerful?
12. Synthesizing: How did Venice’s location affect the types of businesses that developed there?
A New Ruling Class
13. Making Connections: List four ways that rulers could control Italian city-states during the
Renaissance.
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14. Explaining: How did merchants and bankers gain control of city-states?
15. Identifying: Who were the Renaissance leaders of the city-states of Venice and Florence?
16. Paraphrasing: How did diplomacy help city-states?
Chapter 14 Lesson 2 New Ideas and Art Guided Reading
Renaissance Humanism
1. Explaining: What is humanism? What is it based on?
2. Listing: List ways that people might have learned ideas about humanism during the Renaissance.
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3. Analyzing: What was the benefit of writing in the vernacular?
4. Describing: On the first easel below, name three important Renaissance artists and one of their
works of art. On the second easel, name two important techniques used in Renaissance art.
5. Explaining: How was Renaissance art different from art of the Middle Ages?
6. Making: Connections: How did Renaissance art use humanist ideas?
The Northern Renaissance
True or False: Use your textbook to determine if each statement is true or false. Write T or F in the
blank next to the statement. If the statement is false, fix the underlined portion to make it true.
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7. The Renaissance spread from Italy to northern Europe.
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8. Artists in northern Europe used water-based paints rather than oil paints.
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9. Only wealthy people in England could afford to attend plays.
_____ 10. William Shakespeare’s plays were mostly comedies.
Artist
Jan van Eyck
Albrecht Dürer
William Shakespeare
Facts
Chapter 14 Lesson 3 The Reformation Begins Guided Reading
Early Calls for Reform
1. Defining: What was an indulgence, and why did people sell it?
2. Explaining: Give three reasons why people called for reforms in the Catholic Church.
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3. Summarizing: What changes did Erasmus want to make in the Catholic Church?
Luther's Reformation
4. Identifying: What are the Ninety-Five Theses?
5. Determining Cause and Effect: Complete the chart about reforms of the Catholic Church that Martin
Luther wanted.
6. Listing: Name two of the main ideas of Lutheranism.
7. Making Generalizations: Why did peasants generally support Luther’s religious ideas?
8. Explaining: Why did many German kings support Luther’s ideas?
The Reformation Spreads
9. Defining: What is predestination?
10. Listing: List three of John Calvin’s ideas about the Reformation of the Catholic Church.
Calvin's Ideas About Reformation
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11. Locating: What regions were influenced by Calvinist beliefs?
The Reformation in England
12. Identifying: Complete the sentences below with information you learn from reading the lesson.
a. The King of England wanted to _________________ his marriage with Catherine in order to
__________________________________ .
b. King _____________________________ was excommunicated from the Catholic Church and went
on to form the _________________________________________.
c. Queen Mary I of England supported the ___________________Church. For this reason, she
persecuted _______________________________ .
d. Calvinists in England were called _______________________ . They later settled in
______________________ so they could worship freely.
13. Sequencing: Write two or three sentences that explain how religion in England moved from the
Catholic Church to the Puritans
Chapter 14 Lesson 4 Catholics and Protestants Guided Reading
The Catholic Reformation
True or False: Use your textbook to determine if each statement is true or false. Write T or F in the
blank next to the statement. If the statement is false, rewrite the underlined portion(s) to make it true.
_____1. Catholics met in Trent, Italy, to decide how to reform their church.
_____2. The Catholic Church set up seminaries to sell indulgences.
_____3. The Jesuits wanted to bring Protestant reforms to all of Europe.
_____4. The Catholic rulers of Spain welcomed all religions to their country.
_____5. Miguel de Cervantes and El Greco were prevented by Catholic rulers from creating works of
art.
6. Summarizing: Why did the leaders of the Catholic Church want to reform their church?
Religious Wars
7. Sequencing: Use the information in your textbook to complete the time line below. Write the events
that occurred on the dates shown.
1559:
1572:
1588:
1589:
1598:
1618:
1643:
1648:
8. Explaining: How did the Thirty Years’ War begin?
9. Assessing: Why was the defeat of the Spanish Armada important?
Chapter 15 Learning Packet
Lesson 1 The Age of Exploration
Europe Gets Ready to Explore
Identifying: The first column below asks questions about technology that helped Europeans explore the
world. Write your answers in the second column.
Technology
Answers
What is an astrolabe used for?
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What does a compass show?
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How did Ptolemy's maps help explorers?
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Why did sails shaped like triangles help
European sailors?
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5. Explaining: Why did European countries need wealth to start exploring the world?
6. Identifying Cause and Effect: How did changes to the Silk Road force Europeans to look for other
ways to trade with Asia?
7. Identifying: What sort of products did Europeans want to get from Asia?
Early Voyages of Discovery
8. Identifying: Use your textbook to identify the leading European explorers and where they went.
Write the information in the chart. There are 7 of them. The chart continues on to the next page.
Explorers
Place(s) they explored
9. Explaining: Why was Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world so important?
10. Analyzing: Why did Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas?
11. Identifying: Who were the conquistadors and why did Spain send them to the Americas?
Lesson 2 Spain's Conquests in the Americas
The Spanish Conquer Mexico
1. Defining: What is an ambush? How did Cortés use an ambush?
2. Listing: List the things in the chart below that Cortés and Montezuma did when their forces first
met each other and until the Aztec Empire fell.
Battle for Mexico
Hernán
-Landed at Veracruz.
Montezuma
-Messengers tell him about Cortés.
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Spain Conquers Peru
3. Describing: You are a historian recording the history of Francisco Pizarro’s contact with the Inca.
Describe what happened to the leaders of both sides of the conflict on the scrolls below.
Francisco Pizarro
Atahualpa
4. Locating: Where did Vasco Núñez de Balboa cross the Americas and reach the Pacific Ocean, and
where was he trying to go?
Lesson 3 Exploration and Worldwide Trade
Settling the Americas
1. Making Connections: List four ways that Europeans ran their colonies. Write your answers in the chart.
Mention what they grew, who did the work, who got the profits from the work, and who governed the colony.
2. Listing: Which cash crops did Europeans produce in the Americas?
3. Making Connections: Why did the Spanish and Portuguese bring religious communities to the Americas?
4. Explaining: Why did Dutch ships and traders succeed as world traders in the 1600s?
World Trade Changes
5. Explaining: Why were joint-stock companies necessary for overseas trading voyages?
6. Identifying: Why were merchants in the cottage industry trying to avoid dealing with the guilds in the cities?
5. Summarizing: Complete the diagram below by sorting the different elements of mercantilism that European
countries practiced. Use the sentences listed below:
A Global Exchange
8. Listing: List the items that traveled between Europe and the Americas as part of the Columbian Exchange.