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This document provides instructions for students to complete a webquest on the Renaissance and Reformation by watching videos, reading articles, and answering questions in 6 tasks. It addresses key topics like the Italian vs. Northern Renaissance, influential figures like Machiavelli, Erasmus, and Luther, events like the 95 Theses and Diet of Worms, and consequences such as the Protestant Reformation and different sects of Christianity. The goal is for students to learn about the time period and how it impacted European exploration.

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Renaissance & Reformation Webquest (1) (Worked On)

This document provides instructions for students to complete a webquest on the Renaissance and Reformation by watching videos, reading articles, and answering questions in 6 tasks. It addresses key topics like the Italian vs. Northern Renaissance, influential figures like Machiavelli, Erasmus, and Luther, events like the 95 Theses and Diet of Worms, and consequences such as the Protestant Reformation and different sects of Christianity. The goal is for students to learn about the time period and how it impacted European exploration.

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Renaissance & Reformation Webquest

In small groups you will work through the following stages. 1 and 2 will partner up, as will 3 and 4, as will 5 and 6.
After working through the each partner work, group members will then find the other info from other the other 2
sets. Once all of your information has been uncovered, complete the evaluation questions at the end.

Task One: The Italian Renaissance

1. Watch the Crash Course Video on the Renaissance.

Answer the following questions as you watch:

A. Why is the idea of the Renaissance a somewhat controversial topic?


It is a controversial topic because most people think that it didn’t even happen

B. What is the traditional definition of the Renaissance?


Classical learning and wisdom with some religion

C. Why does John Green think that the Renaissance didn’t happen? Do you agree with him?
He believes that it never happened because many people never really realized that it happened the
renaissance was only experienced by the richest of the rich and those people like painters who served
them about 95 percent never encountered the renaissance , I agree I think the renaissance didn’t
happened

Task Two: Northern Renaissance


Watch this video on the Northern Renaissance. You can fast forward past the first 50 seconds.
A. How is it different from the Italian Renaissance?
More Christian, Advocated social reform

B. How is it similar?
Use of classical literature like Greek , roman, biblical.

B.5 Pause video and look up the definition of humanism here. It is the first sentence.
was an intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which
focused not on religion but on what it is to be human

C. Thomas Moore and Utopia - what is notable?


Thomas Moore was the chancellor to Henry VIII, He was a classical scholar, also was martyred
during the reformation He opposed Henrys church reforms and Henry had him executed for that.
Utopia is really part of this revival of Plato, Utopia has a lot of social criticism as far as the law and
order. Moore was not quite radical but very socialist

D. Erasmus - what is his thought?


That the unity of church is fundamental

E. What were some of the criticisms of the Catholic Church that Erasmus puts forth in his writings?
Some of the criticisms were that some people didn’t want to go and some people argued that something
was not right and that something needed to change

Task Three: How to Take Over the World in Three Easy Steps.

A. Who was Machiavelli? What was his background?


Known as the father of modern and philosophy as well as being an accomplished in Florence Italy and
as he grew up he began to work in areas of local government. He was the elected secretary Chancery.

Read the following excerpt from Machiavelli’s seminal work, The Prince:

B. The selected passage you read is one of the most famous parts of Machiavelli’s The Prince. Ultimately,
what does Machiavelli think regarding the question of whether a prince should be loved or feared? Why does he think
this? What is your opinion on it?

Because the prince has the power to do whatever he wants to do so he could do bad things to make him
be feared but could also choose good which is when he would be loved by his people.

Task Four: Read All About It!


Article on printing (stop at relief process). Video on the printing press (how it works).
A. Where had block printing first developed? (Look! We are going back to a previous unit! See we’re never done with
the past, lol.) What were some of the characteristics of block-printed publications? What made them difficult to produce?
It first was developed in China, Used for creating printing text and images, The materials that were
used were not easy to find.
What type of things were being created (print wise) during the Renaissance?
They created things like printing texts and images

B. What is the main benefit of the “movable type” system developed by Gutenberg? What are some of the potential
historical events that stem from this invention?
That it would hopefully make it easier to print things more efficiently with less cost for materials

Task Five: Causes of the Protestant Reformation

1. Problems in the Papacy, Tickets to Heaven, and the Rise of Individualism. Watch the video while you answer the
questions.
A. How did the Catholic Church influence the daily life of individuals before the Protestant Reformation?
the reformulation of certain basic tenets of Christian belief and resulted in the division of Western
Christendom between Roman Catholicism and the new Protestant traditions

B. How did Pope Leo X refill the Church’s treasury after rebuilding St. Peter’s Basilica?
He wanted to create the most grandiose church in all of Christendom he believed that it was
tremendously important to the authority of the pope.

C. What was an indulgence, and what could it do?


Indulgence(pieces of paper) was a way to sell so they could create the funds for the very expensive
church

D. What were the Ninety-Five Theses and why were they important?
propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences, this event came to be considered
the beginning of the President Reformation

2. Martin Luther and the Revolt Against the Church.


A. Why was the translation of the Bible from Latin into vernacular languages considered to be controversial?
What happened to early reformers like John Wyclif and Jan Hus?
It was considered controversial because he believed the common people needed to hear the scripture

B. What happens at the Diet of Worms?


The diet of worms was Charles V passed the Edict of worms, which banned Luther's writings and
declared him a heretic and an enemy of the state. He was aginst one of the central doctrines of the
church

C. How is the Protestant Reformation also a political reformation?


Literacy rates improved dramatically as Protestants were encouraged to read the Bible for themselves,
and education became a higher priority.
D. How did Luther believe that salvation could be achieved?
Freely Granted by God and not something that had to be earned by human beings, He believed that it
would be achieved by Faith

Task Six: Consequences of the Protestant Reformation

1. Henry VIII, Self-Determination, and Free Will.

A. How does the translation of the Bible into vernacular languages result in different sects of Protestantism?

When so many people read it they will have a different interoperation that the next person that believes
in it and that creates different sects of Protestantism

B. What does Calvin’s doctrine of predestination mean for the idea of free will?

That everyone is “once saved, always saved” because of the fact that not everyone in the world is a
Christian means that god had to choose someone

C. Why does Henry VIII of England break from the Catholic Church?

Pope Clement VII refused to grant him a thought about his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so that he
could wed Anne.

2. Jesuits and Inquisitions.

A. How did the Protestant Reformation affect artistic production?


Many artists in Protestant countries diversify into section of art like painting landscapes portraiture, etc

B. What is the Council of Trent, and what were its outcomes?


The council of Trent outcomes were the formal Roman Catholic replying to the extreme challenges of
the Protestant Reformation

C. Who are the Jesuits, and why are they important?


According to the Pope religious community called the Society of Jesus for everyone to start to for the
love for Christ and to help with the people of the Pope

Evaluate:
After learning about the Renaissance and Reformation, how do you think these events will impact European exploration
and colonization?
It will make it more interesting because they will find more interesting things that they will start to
learn the more they explore and colonize

Which person or events do you think were the most influential? You can pick two to discuss.
They church and Christianity were some of the more influential because they helped people realize that
most people could become something with god

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