The Reformation

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

They noticed that the church had gone away from the church was doing when the studied the bible.

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

After bible was printed, people could read it for themselves. Their interpretation sometimes different from those of the church.

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

New ideas spread more quickly than before.

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

Because a result of indulgence of corrupt activity, people had begun to lose confidence in the church.

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

He wrote 95 These on the Wittenberg Cathedral.

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

Luther considered that there was no need for pope or priests. Monasteries should be closed and priests be allowed to marry.

7 What were Martin Luther's followers called?

They were called protestants.

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

Protestant movement led to Germany to become Protestant and the other half Catholic.

The Enlightenment

9 When and what was the Age of Enlightenment?

In the early 18th century, there was a remarkable change in the way some scholars thought about religion, Politics, justice, and how people in society should be treated. This is called Age of Enlightenment.

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

It basis on a contract between the rulers and the people. If the ruler broke their side of the contract, then the people had the right to rebel.

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

He attacking its inequalities and injustices.

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

It should separated into three main parts: a legislative power to make laws, an executive power to enforce them and a judicial power the judge when the laws have been broken.