| Question | Answer |
| The most devastating pandemics in human history | The Black Plague
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Period in Italy marked by a sudden explosion in the arts and culture | Renaissance
| Movement of Christians away from the Catholic Church to a new form of Christianity | Protestant Reformation
| Belief that each person is valuable or important for their own sake | Individualism
| Celebrating the self and all that makes us human | Humanism
| Belonging to this world living here and now | Secularism
| During the Middle Ages people began to search for new answers and ask new questions | Skepticism
| Ruled in the Republic of Florence during the late 14th century | Medici
| A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state | City State
| Used moveable metal letters this method of printing can be credited for a revolution in the production of books | Printing Press
| Writer of The Prince who believed immoral acts are justified if they serve the interest of the state | Machiavelli
| Period when the Renaissance thrives and reaches new grandeur in Rome | High Renaissance
| Students and scholars of Northern Europe visit Italy are influenced by Renaissance culture allowing it to spread | Northern Renaissance
| Best known Christian humanist who believed that Christianity should show people how to live good lives on a daily basis | Erasmus
| Humanist whose book Utopia was about a nearly perfect society based on reason and mercy | More
| Inventor of the printing press | Johannes Gutenberg
| Practice of the Catholic Church accepting money in exchange for absolution from sins | Indulgences
| Monk in the Catholic Church who wrote the Ninety Five Theses who believed that humans were not saved by their good works but by their faith in God | Martin Luther
| Written by Martin Luther it attacked Catholic Church practices and was nailed to the door of Wittenberg Castle | Ninety Five Theses
| Luther's religious movement becomes a revolution and he begins setting up new religious services to replace the Catholic mass | Lutheranism
| Gathering of the Imperial Diet in Germany where Martin Luther and his Protestant ideals went on trial | Diet of Worms
| Protestant reformer who believed that the elect will be saved from sin and hoped for a theocratic form of government | John Calvin
| God has determined in advance who will be saved and who will be damned | Predestination
| A group of institutions within the judicial system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy | The Inquisition
| Meeting that began in 1545 where a group of cardinals archbishops bishops abbots and theologians met to focus on revitalizing the Catholic Church | Council of Trent
| Term Protestant historians use when referring to the reforms of the Catholic Church during the Reformation | Counter Reformation
| Term Catholic historians use when referring to the sincere desire of popes to end church corruption during the Reformation | Catholic Reformation
| He studied the movement of planets for 30 years and concluded that the sun was the center of the universe | Copernicus
| He proposed the laws of planetary motion that stated that planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits | Kepler
| He discovered the law of the pendulum studied laws motion and successfully built a telescope that could study the heavens | Galileo |
