The Late Middle Ages (1300-1500 CE)

Question 1

During the Late Middle Ages, this big event happened?

Answer 1

The Black Death

Question 2

The Hundreds Years’ War (1337-1453) was a major struggle between _____________ and _____________?

Answer 2

England and France

Question 3

Who was Joan of Arc (1412-1431)?

Answer 3

• illiterate peasant girl
• said she heard voices of saints
• rallied the French army for several victories
• captured by Burgundians (allies of England)
• Was sold to the English and tried for witchcraft (heresy)
• Burned at the stake

Question 4

What led nationalism to grow during this time?

Answer 4

Wars

Question 5

Who won the Hundreds Years’ War?

Answer 5

France

Question 6

The marriage of what two people created a unified Spain?

Answer 6

Isabella of Castile (reigned 1474-1504) and Ferdinand of Aragon (reigned 1474-1516)

Question 7

When did the Renaissance occur?

Answer 7

1300-1600

Question 8

Renaissance emphasized what 3 things?

Answer 8

• New learnin
• Rediscovery of classical material
• New art styles

Question 9

What 5 countries were home to renaissance developments?

Answer 9

1. Venice
2. Milan
3. Padua
4. Pisa
5. Florence**

Question 10

How did Renaissance art differ from Medieval Art?

Answer 10

Less religious, more secular.

Question 11

Who are famous Renaissance painters?

Answer 11

1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. Raphael
3. Michelangelo

Question 12

Who was Machiavelli (1469-1527) of the high middle ages\Renaissance periods?

Answer 12

He wrote “The Prince”.

Question 13

What was the Reformation?

Answer 13

• a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.
• Destroyed Western Europe’s religious unity
• ## Introduced new ideas about the relationships between God, individual, and society

Question 14

What movement was Martin Luther (1483-1546) a part of?

Answer 14

Reformation Movement

Question 15

What did Martin Luther of the Reformation Movement advocate for?

Answer 15

Good works such as a Christian life and attention to sacraments couldn’t “earn” a sinner salvation, but rather belief and faith were the only way to obtain such grace

Question 16

What did Martin Luther say about the Bible?

Answer 16

ONLY the bible could determine religious practices and beliefs, not religious traditions.

Question 17

What were “Anabaptists”?

Answer 17

Name applied to people who rejected the validity of child baptism and believed that children had to be rebaptized when they became adults

Menno Simmons was a prominent leader of this

Question 18

Protestant churches were a result of what movement?

Answer 18

Reformation Movement

Question 19

Who led the attack on Protestanism?

Answer 19

Ignatius of Loyola led the Counter Reformation movement

Question 20

What book analyzed politics from the standpoint of expedience and describes how a political leader could obtain and hold power by only acting in his own self-interest?

Answer 20

The Prince by Machiavelli

Question 21

Who was eventually excommunicated by Pope Leo X for his beliefs?

Answer 21

Martin Luther

Question 22

Who painted the “The Last Supper” and “Mona Lisa”?

Answer 22

Leonardo DaVinci

Question 23

Who painted the “The School of Athens”?

Answer 23

Raphael

Question 24

Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Answer 24

Michelangelo