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SS-Test Chapter 15
Renaissance and Reformation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Huguenots | French who adopted Calvanism |
| 95 theses | list of things that people were upset about(grievances) with the Catholic church |
| indulgences | things people could buy which then said that the church had forgiven their sins |
| Martin Luther | began as a Catholic monk, he broke away from the church because he was upset by their practices |
| "the elect" | according to the Calvinists, the people that God had chosen to be saved |
| Machaivelli | said that a ruler should only be concerned with power and politics |
| Renaissance artists | make paintings and statues life-like |
| Jesuits | a Catholic order that believed in obeying the Pope and doing good deeds |
| Loyola | the person who started the movement to do good deeds, live "pious" lives, etc. |
| Erasmus | an early critic of the Catholic church |
| inflation | when prices for goods go up |
| Almanac | a book of predictions about the weather and farming |
| exorcise | to rid a person of an "evil spirit" which was in him/her.-only priests could do this |
| black death | the plague in the 1300's which killed 1 out of 3 people |
| perspective | a technique that artists used to crate an illusion of depth - made things look 3-dimensional |
| Isabella d'Este | filled her palace with paintings and sculptures from the finest Renaissance artists |