Chapter 4 Study Guide
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The Renaissance was an exciting and sometimes dangerous time to live. People were willing to go to prison and even die for the sake of the ideas they considered important. It was a time when powerful new ideas and knowledge challenged the traditional world order.
1. Use the organizer below to list at least 3 changes in each of the categories.
2. Galileo took back his comments about the universe. If you had made an important discovery, would you have taken it back? Why or why not?
4. What is the Scientific Method?
5. Humanism is the term to describe the different way of thinking during the renaissance. They started to ask what effect the decisions they were making were going to have on the people in their society. They started asking themselves how will works of art or different medical technology affect the community. Before this, nobody really thought about it.
How did Humanism change the Catholic Church?
6. Name at least 2 different medical treatments that stopped being used after the Renaissance because they were thought to not be good for the patients.
7. How was art changed by the use of mathematics during the Renaissance?
8. How did Isabella D’Este become “The first lady of the world”?
9. How did Isabella D’Este change how medieval men thought about women?
12. Why was Martin Luther so angry? What was the church doing that he felt was wrong?
13. After Martin Luther was excommunicated, what did he do to make the bible more accessible to more people?
14. What effect did the “Protestant Reformation” have on the Catholic church?
15. List at least 2 things that Pope Paul III tried to get people to come back to the Catholic church.
17. During the Renaissance Universities were created and grew very quickly. This led to many more people being educated and even more diverse thought. How did knowledge expand so quickly to every nation in the empire?
19. In 1450 the whole world changed because of an invention. What was the invention?
20. How did this invention change the world?
21. What did the writings of Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Johannes Kepler all have in common?
22. What contributions did the scientific method make to society?
23. What did Niccolo Machiavelli view as the most important means of judging a leader?
24. What were the reasons that reformers criticized the Catholic Church?
25. Here is a list of famous Renaissance thinkers. Beside each of the names list what they are famous for.
Galileo Galilei-
Nicolous Copernicus-
Johannes Kepler-
Isabella D’Este-
Machiavelli-
Girolamo Savonarola-
Martin Luther-
Pope Paul III-
Johannes Gutenberg-