Unit 13: Paper 3 — History of Europe (HL)
Topic 13.2: Renaissance and Reformation (c.1350–1700) Questions
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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 Florentine family used banking wealth to dominate the city's politics informally and fund artists such as Botticelli?
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What was the immediate trigger for Martin Luther writing the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517?
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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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At the Diet of Worms in 1521, what did Martin Luther do when summoned before Emperor Charles V?
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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 settlement of 1555 established the principle of cuius regio, eius religio, allowing each German prince to choose Lutheranism or Catholicism for his own territory?
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The Peasants' War of 1524-1525, which Luther condemned and princes crushed brutally, is estimated to have killed around how many people?
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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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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 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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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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Ludovico Sforza of Milan is best known in this micro-topic for employing which artist?
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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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Discuss the view that the Council of Trent (1545-1563) was the most important factor in the Counter-Reformation's response to Protestantism.
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To what extent do you agree that the economic effects of the Reformation on Germany were primarily beneficial to the Protestant rulers and cities that embraced it?
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