Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Targets
Skill Builders

Chapter 4 Summary

At the end of Chapter 4, you should be able to answer the following Big Question:

  • How did the Renaissance promote the growth and exchange of ideas across Europe?

You studied the following smaller questions in Chapter 4 to help you answer the Big Question.


  1. How can scientific discoveries shape people's worldview?
  2. What role do leaders have in changing or maintaining worldview?
  3. How did changing leadership in the Catholic Church affect worldview?
  4. How did ideas and knowledge spread?


Download the graphic organizer seen in Figure 4.1 to help you review Chapter 4.


Remember to review the vocabulary for Chapter 4.

  • anatomy
  • astrology
  • astronomy
  • disseminate
  • excommunication
  • Gutenberg
  • heresy
  • indulgences
  • Machiavelli
  • Machiavellian
  • Martin Luther
  • Montaigne
  • perspective
  • printing press
  • Protestant
  • Reformation
  • Savonarola
  • scientific method
  • vanities
  • vernacular

Figure 4.1 - Chapter 4 Graphic Organizer