Renaissance quiz

Indulgence

• A grant by the Catholic Church that released a person from punishments for sins

• A Christian who separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation; today, any member of Christiany other than Catholic or Orthodox

What changes in Europe led to the Renaissance?

• Corruption and political conflict. For corruption, church selling indulgences and preists breaking vows. Political conflict, the pope always fighting with monarchs over who controls what land.

• Humanism, trade and commerce, and increase in italian city.

What factors led to the weakening of the catholic church and beginning of the reformation?

• Humanism, trade and commerce, and increase in italian city. Italian city because it grew, trade and commerce because they traded, and commerce because they talked with eachother.

• Corruption and political conflict. For corruption, church selling indulgences and preists breaking vows. Political conflict, the pope always fighting with monarchs over who controls what land.

Humanism

• A philosophy that tries to balance religious faith with an emphasis on individual dignity and an interest in nature and human society

• A form of government in which citizens elect representatives to govern them

Florence

• The cratle of the Renaissance

• City of the flowers

New World

• A philosophy that tries to balance religious faith with an emphasis on individual dignity and an interest in nature and human society

• The name given by the Europeans to the Americas, which were unknown to most Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus

Simony

• Cratle of the Renaissance

• The buying and selling of positions in the catholic church