Renaissance and Exploration Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. This empire dominated much of Mexico before the arrival of the Spanish
  2. 6. This European country was the first leader of exploration and navigation during the age of exploration
  3. 9. Luther’s branch of protestant Christianity became known as what?
  4. 10. This Christian humanist criticized the Catholic Church for it’s empty rituals and insisted that the church should teach people how to live in a Christ-like way in daily life.
  5. 11. This massive empire in the Andes Mountains was flourishing when the Spanish arrived
  6. 14. After years of war, this treaty granted German states the right to choose between Catholicism or Lutheranism as the official religion
  7. 15. This German monk, upset especially by the sales of indulgences, insisted that the Catholic church needed to be reformed
  8. 16. Also called The Society of Jesus, this group vowed allegiance to the Pope and through mission work aimed to restore Catholicism after the reformation
  9. 18. Martin Luther posted 95 of these on the Wittenberg door
  10. 19. This meeting of the Catholic church reaffirmed catholic doctrine in opposition to the growin protestant reformation
  11. 22. A period of rebirth in Europe that brought about greater political stability and a focus on the potnetial of human beings in disciplines like art, literature, architecture, and math
  12. 23. This Italian explorer landed in the New World in 1492
Down
  1. 1. The most radical reformers who insisted on separating religion from the state and would only baptize adult believers
  2. 3. This was the “right” of Spanish settlers to use Native Americans for labor
  3. 4. A Swiss reformer whose focus on salvation by God’s grace alone led him to emphasize a doctrine of “predestination”
  4. 5. This famous invention of Johannes Gutenberg made the spread of ideas radically easier
  5. 7. This trade network brought never before known plants, animals, and diseases between the old and new world
  6. 8. God, Gold, and _____ became a motto of explorers in the age of exploration
  7. 12. The Catholic church granted these, promising that they would relieve souls in Purgatory from punishment
  8. 13. This group of armed spanish explorers began establishing a number of colonies in south and central America
  9. 17. This philosophy emphasized the individual’s potential and insisted that in order to unlock that potential, one would need to have a well-rounded classical education in Greek and Roman thought.
  10. 20. The author of the Prince who de-emphasized a leader’s morality and insisted on an ends-justify-the means approach to rule
  11. 21. This was the destination of Vasco Da Gama as he explored a sea route around Africa