What Was the Great Schism?

What was the Great Schism?

19. When did the Renaissance begin?

Section 2: The Shattering

1. Who was the next explorer to successfully navigate the Straits of Magellan

after Magellan?

2. What was the policy of Spain toward Jews beginning in 1492?

3. What was the most celebrated crime of the Middle Ages?

4. According to Manchester, at any given moment the most dangerous

enemy in Europe was who?

5. Who said "God has given us the papacy. Let us enjoy it?"

6. What scriptural precedent did the Church use to justify the sale of

indulgences?

7. When did the Church establish rules of celibacy for the clergy?

8. Who did Girolamo Savonarola declare "is no longer a Christian?"

9. Who conspired to murder Lorenzo de Medici?

10. What were the three largest European cities in 1500?

11. Why were there no correctional facilities in the sixteenth century?

12. Who are the Fuggers?

13. How large was the average man of the time?

14. What was the life expectancy for the peasants of Europe in the 16th

century?

15. What were the required uniforms for lepers, prostitutes, and Jews?

16. What substituted for prison terms at the time?

17. Why was Castile unique for travelers?

18. Who was the model for Machiavelli's The Prince?

19. What was the fate of Giordano Bruno?

20. Who described earthly life as "nasty, brutish, and short?"

21. Who was the star of the typographical revolution?

22. What were the trivium and quadrivium?

23. How has Machiavelli been misinterpreted by history?

24. What event gave impetus to the revival of Greek learning?

25. What was described "as profitable as milking a he-goat into a sieve?"

26. What two threats did Martin Luther believe humanism posed to the Church?

27. What was the occupation of Erasmus' father?

28. What was Erasmus' extraordinary talent?

29. Who was "the warrior pope?"

30. What was the spark that ignited the Reformation?

31. Who was Johann Tetzel?

32. What language did Martin Luther virtually create?

33. Where did Martin Luther conceive the doctrine of justification by faith?

34. How long would it take to travel from Venice to London in the 16th century?

To Constantinople? To Lisbon?

35. How did Luther escape Augsburg in 1518?

36. Name four Germans martyred for challenging the authority of the Church

prior to Martin Luther.

37. What position marked Luther as "an unshriven, unrepentant apostate?"

38. Who elected the Holy Roman Emperor?

39. Which two German universities did not remain

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