The Reformation

1 What did Renaissance scholars notice about what the Church was doing when they studied the Bible?

2 How did the invention of the printing press affect people's knowledge of the teachings in the Bible?

3 How did the printing press help increase the demand for reform?

4 What did some Church leaders do that made people lose confidence in the Church?

5 What did Martin Luther put on the door of the Wittenburg Cathedral?

6 What were some of the ideas or reforms that Martin Luther put forth?

7 What were Martin Luther's followers called?

8 What caused half of the people in Germany to become Protestant and the other half Catholic?

The Enlightenment

9 When and what was the Age of Enlightenment?

10 What were John Locke's idea of the basis of a government's power?

11 How did Voltaire weaken the power of the French government?

12 According to Montesquieu, what form should a government take?