Unit 13: Paper 3 — History of Europe (HL)
Topic 13.2: Renaissance and Reformation (c.1350–1700) Questions
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Which Florentine family used banking wealth to dominate the city's politics informally and fund artists such as Botticelli?
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Which English monarch employed humanist tutors for his children and brought the painter Hans Holbein the Younger to his court?
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Which event is most closely linked to Byzantine scholars fleeing west with original Greek manuscripts of Plato and other classical writers?
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Which English writer's 1516 work *Utopia* used an imagined ideal society to criticise greed and bad government at home?
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Which Dutch scholar mocked corrupt and lazy clergy in the 1509 satire Praise of Folly and produced a new Greek edition of the New Testament?
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Which Catholic humanist produced a more accurate Greek New Testament and publicly debated Luther over free will, yet never left the Catholic Church?
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At the Diet of Worms in 1521, what did Martin Luther do when summoned before Emperor Charles V?
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Ludovico Sforza of Milan is best known in this micro-topic for employing which artist?
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The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) began as a revolt by Protestant nobles against a Catholic Habsburg ruler in which region?
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Which pope approved the founding of the Jesuit order in 1540 and called the Council of Trent in 1545?
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Who brought England's first printing press to the country in 1476, helping spread humanist and classical ideas beyond a small scholarly elite?
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Who protected Martin Luther by hiding him at Wartburg Castle after the Edict of Worms declared him an outlaw?
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Evaluate the claim that the Renaissance brought about genuine transformation in England, rather than simply layering new classical ideas on top of unchanged medieval habits.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that Church corruption alone was enough to cause the Reformation, without needing Luther's specific new theology?
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Discuss the view that Emperor Charles V's failure to crush Luther's revolt after the Diet of Worms (1521) was mainly due to the Church's own weakness, rather than to Charles V's political circumstances.
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Evaluate the claim that the printing press was the single most important reason Lutheranism spread successfully in Germany after 1517.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that Christian humanists such as Thomas More and Erasmus had a meaningful influence on how rulers and the Church actually behaved in the early sixteenth century?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that Erasmus should be seen as one of the causes of the Reformation rather than merely a critic of it?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the political consequences of the Reformation in Germany were more significant than its religious consequences?
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Evaluate the claim that the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) was fundamentally a religious conflict.
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