How did Martin Luther react when peasant rebels took up his banner as a means of bringing about social change in Germany?

1
How did Martin Luther react when peasant rebels
took up his banner as a means of bringing about
social change in Germany?

• He denounced the peasants, and the rebellion was
  suppressed.

2
Who described architecture as a social art
meant to combine beauty with utility and
improvement of society?

• Leon Alberti

3
In the scientific method, a hypothesis is a

• Possible explanation to be tested.

4
Many scholars agree that between 1450 and 1750
peoples beliefs in both Christianity and magic
led to

• The persecution of people as witches.

5
The main goal of the Jesuits was to

• Defend, restore, and spread the Catholic faith.

6
What changes did the Catholic Church make during
the Catholic Reformation?

• It provided penalties for corruption among the
  clergy.

7
Todays Baptists, Mennonites, and Amish can all
trace their religious ancestry to the

• Anabaptists

8
What triggered the events that resulted in the
formation of the Church of England?

• Henry VIII wanted a divorce.

9
The calculations of astronomer Johannes Kepler
showed that

• The planets move around the sun in oval orbits.

10
The inventor who perfected the microscope and the
first person to see cells and microorganisms was

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

11
What humanist of Northern Europe wrote about his
vision of an ideal society, in which people live
in peace and harmony?

• Sir Thomas More

12
Which statement best describes the ideal woman
according to writer Baldassare Castiglione?

• Her outward beauty reflects her inner goodness.

13
The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa were the work
of the great artist

• Leonardo da Vinci

14
Who assembled a library of Greek and Roman
manuscripts preserving the works of Cicero, Homer
and Virgil?

• Francesco Petrarch

15
The age of great change marked by renewed
interest in classical learning and the arts is
called the

• Renaissance

16
In the 1600s, Robert Boyles work transformed the
field of

• chemistry

17
Unlike Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes believed
that the best road to understanding was through

• Human reasoning

18
The purpose of the Council of Trent was to

• Direct the reform of the Catholic Church.

19
Sir Thomas More was executed because he

• Would not accept Henry VIII ah head of the Church
  in England.

20
Humanist scholars differed from medieval thinkers
in that humanists

• Tended to focus more on worldly subjects.

21
A thriving trading region where the northern
Renaissance began.

• Flanders

22
A religious group that has broken away from an
established church.

• Sect

23
Anabaptists believed that infants should not be
baptized because

• Infants are too young to accept the Christian
  faith.

24
The city that produced many Renaissance artists
and scholars with the support of the Medici
family.

• Florence

25
Wrote a guide for rulers on how to gain and keep
power.

• Niccolo Machiavelli

26
What resulted from the Peace of Augsburg in 1555?

• Each German prince could decide the religion from
  his lands.

27
The idea that God long ago decided who would be
saved and who would not.

• Predestination

28
A government run by religious leaders.

• Theocracy

29
The Swiss city-state of Geneva became a model of
Protestant morality under the leadership of

• John Calvin

30
Started a printing revolution.

• Johann Gutenberg

31
Proposed a heliocentric model of the universe.

• Nicolaus Copernicus

32
What major theme of the northern Renaissance did
Alberecht Durers engravings portray?

• Religious upheaval

33
Showed that gravity keeps planets in orbit.

• Isaac Newton

34
An artist who made sketches of flying machines
centuries before the first airplane.

• Leonardo da Vinci

35
One way that Renaissance artists reflected the
new ideas of humanism was by painting

• Well-known people of the day