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HIS 125 Module 8 Check Your Understanding
1.	_________ was the idea from northern Europe that the best elements of classical and Christian cultures should be combined to broaden learning and enhance spirituality.


2.	To settle competing claims to the Atlantic discoveries, Spain and Portugal turned to Pope Alexander VI. Through an agreement and a drawn imaginary line, Spain received everything west of the imaginary line drawn down the Atlantic, and Portugal everything to the east. This is known as the:

3.	A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century that split the Western Christian Church was the:


4.	A discussion, which began in the later years of the fourteenth century, that attempted to answer fundamental questions about gender role in society was the:


5.	The demand for new sources of labor for the mines contributed to the intensification resulting in:

6.	By 1450 the collapse of paper currency led the _______ government to shift to a silver based currency.

7.	The _______ was a system whereby the Spanish crown granted the conquerors the right to forcibly employ groups of Indians; it was a disguised form of slavery.

8.	Calvin's teaching, which states by God's decree that some persons are guided to salvation and others to damnation, is called:

9.	In exchange for silver, the Chinese traded high quality finished goods much desired by elites across the world. These goods included:

10.	In ____, Spain conquered Granada and practicing Jews were expelled from Spain.

11.	An assembly of the Estates of the Holy Roman Empire was convened by Charles V in the German city of ____ where Martin Luther refused to recant his writings.


12.	A program of study designed by Italians that emphasized the critical study of Latin and Greek literature with the goal of understanding human nature is called:

13.	_______ is a term utilized in Southeast Asian custom whereby at marriage the groom paid the bride or her family a sum of money that remained under her control.

14.	By the middle of the sixteenth century, almost one-tenth of the French population, known as French Calvinists had become:


15.	A small group of moderate Protestants and Catholics believed only restoration of a strong monarch avoid France's ultimate collapse were called the:

16.	A signed document by the pope or another church official that substituted for penance is called a(n):


17.	The consequences were most tragic in ____, where millions of indigenous laborers suffered brutal conditions and death in the silver mines.

18.	Ambitious merchants who gained political power to match the power of their wealth were part of the:

19.	A term that originally applied to all non-Catholic western European Christians is:


20.	Renaissance literally means:

	

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