The correct answer is A) The Renaissance was a period when people began challenging the church and its teachings.
Which of the following generalizations is true based on the reading?
Answer: "The Renaissance was a period when people began challenging the church and its teachings."
During the Renaissance, the Catholic Church was increasingly seen as a corrupt institution with too much power.
During the Renaissance years, after the dark ages of the Middle Age, many things changed and the concept of "Humanism" was introduced, which meant more respect for the human being and his possibility to increase knowledge through reason. This made people see how the Catholic Church represented a corrupt institution that amassed a fortune selling indulgences to people and exerted too much power and influence over their followers.
