Deck 12: recovery and Rebirth: the Age of the Renaissance

Question 1

What were the new ideologies in the Renaissance the possibly weakened the primacy of religion? Of the Catholic Church?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Discuss the major social changes of the Renaissance era. Were these changes actually a rejection of medieval trends? Why or why not?

Answer 2

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Question 3

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House of Medici

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Question 4

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Cosimo de'Medici

Question 5

Discuss the political development of Italy during the Renaissance. What new political practices (statecraft) did the Italians contribute to Europe? How are these new political practices reflected in the work of Machiavelli?

Question 6

What were the distinctive characteristics of the Renaissance artists? How does their art reflect the political and social events of the period?

Question 7

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Leon Battista Alberti

Question 8

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Hanseatic League

Question 9

In what ways did the European world experience an economic recovery in the fifteenth century? Did the revived economy differ greatly from what it had been?

Question 10

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condottieri

Question 11

To what extent did Renaissance artists change society during their own lifetimes, and to what extent were they merely mirrors of changes going on around them?

Question 12

Discuss Italian Renaissance humanism. What does the word humanism mean? Who were the humanists? What were their goals? Did they achieve them?

Question 13

Compare warfare in the Middle Ages with that of the Renaissance. Consider the differences and the continuities, as regards to causes, aims, financing, technology, as well as who fought and for what motives.

Question 14

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Renaissance

Question 15

In what ways was the Renaissance truly just a "rebirth," a rehashing of old knowledge and perspectives? To what extent was the Renaissance a series of original innovations?

Question 16

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Francesco Sforza

Question 17

Discuss the major characteristics of the Renaissance papacy. What impact did the policies of the Renaissance popes have on the Catholic Church?

Question 18

What characterized the relationship between leading Renaissance figures and the aristocrats and monarchs of Italy?

Question 19

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Castiglione's Book of the Courtier

Question 20

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Jacob Burckhardt

Question 21

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Francesco Guicciardini

Question 22

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Brunelleschi's dome

Question 23

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Isabella d'Este

Question 24

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Renaissance hermeticism

Question 25

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Lorenzo Valla

Question 26

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Petrarch

Question 27

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Lorenzo the Magnificent

Question 28

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the Papal States

Question 29

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Pico della Mirandola's Oration

Question 30

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civic humanism

Question 31

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Botticelli's Primavera

Question 32

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Donatello's David

Question 33

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"liberal studies"

Question 34

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Johannes Gutenberg

Question 35

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Machiavelli's The Prince

Question 36

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Marsilio Ficino and neoplatonism

Question 37

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Peace of Lodi and balance of power

Question 38

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Masaccio

Question 39

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High Renaissance

Question 40

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Leonardo Bruni's The New Cicero

Question 41

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Pius II's Execrabilis

Question 42

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Sistine Chapel's David

Question 43

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Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists

Question 44

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Raphael

Question 45

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Ferdinand and Isabella

Question 46

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Leonardo da Vinci

Question 47

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Jan van Eyck

Question 48

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Renaissance popes

Question 49

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madrigals

Question 50

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Northern Renaissance

Question 51

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Michelangelo

Question 52

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Constantinople and 1453

Question 53

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John Wyclif and John Hus

Question 54

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"new monarchies"

Question 55

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the Habsburgs

Question 56

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Louis XI the Spider and Henry VII

Question 57

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Spanish Inquisition

Question 58

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Bramante and Saint Peter's

Question 59

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Albrecht Durer

Question 60

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Ivan III

Question 61

The word "Renaissance" means

A) rebirth.
B) new world.
C) maturation.
D) escape.
E) culture.

Question 62

By the fifteenth century, Italy was

A) a centralized state.
B) dominated by the Papal States exclusively.
C) the foremost European power.
D) dominated by five major regional independent powers.
E) made up of hundreds of independent city-states.

Question 63

The achievements of the Italian Renaissance were the products of

A) an elite movement, involving small numbers of wealthy patrons, artists, and intellectuals.
B) a mass movement in which all sections of society participated and contributed.
C) a narrow religious movement directed almost entirely by clerics.
D) a political movement in essence controlled mainly by kings.
E) foreign inspiration and influence, particularly from Islamic Spain.

Question 64

The family of merchants and bankers who dominated Florence during the high point of the Renaissance was the

A) Gonzaga.
B) Bardi.
C) Sforza.
D) Medici.
E) Machiavelli.

Question 65

Castiglione's The Courtier was a

A) primer on military training for nobles.
B) very popular handbook laying out the new skills in politics, the arts, and personal comportment expected of Renaissance aristocrats.
C) sharp denunciation of the wasteful noble life.
D) treatise against active participation in public life.
E) work on how to achieve political power and then keep it.

Question 66

The wealth of the northern Italian cities that funded the Renaissance was gained mostly from

A) colonization.
B) the slave trade.
C) agriculture.
D) military conquest.
E) trade.

Question 67

The aristocracy of the sixteenth century was

A) to dominate society as it had done in the Middle Ages.
B) largely surpassed by the upcoming merchant class.
C) still powerful, but with little new blood to keep it vital.
D) extremely uneducated compared to the nobility of the Middle Ages.
E) to disappear by the early seventeenth century.

Question 68

Marriages in Renaissance Italy

A) were based on love and mutual affection.
B) were easy to dissolve or annul.
C) were an economic necessity of life involving complicated family negotiations.
D) were often worked out hastily with little thought.
E) declined as the sanction of the church and religion grew weaker.

Question 69

Which of the following statements best describes marriage in Renaissance Italy?

A) Young men asked women for their hand in marriage, after a lengthy courtship.
B) Husbands were generally the same age as their spouses.
C) Marriages were usually arranged, to strengthen familial alliances.
D) Men and women waited longer to get married than in the Middle Ages.
E) Men and women married earlier than in the Middle Ages because of increased economic opportunities.

Question 70

According to Jacob Burckhardt, the Renaissance in Italy represented

A) the greatest period of economic recovery in the history of civilization.
B) a period of moral decline.
C) an era of tremendous graft and corruption in Italian government.
D) a continuation of the culture of the High Middle Ages.
E) a distinct break from the Middle Ages and the true birth of the modern world.

Question 71

Western Europe in the Renaissance saw

A) a decline in serfdom.
B) a decline in centralized royal government.
C) a reduction in urban trade networks.
D) a rise in famine.
E) an increase in slavery.

Question 72

Banquets during the Renaissance

A) expressed the simplicity of the life idealized in courtly society.
B) were not held on Holy Days and on such celebrations as weddings.
C) were used to express wealth and power of an aristocratic family.
D) were banned by the papacy.
E) were restricted to the wealthy bourgeoisie.

Question 73

Slavery in Renaissance Italy

A) reached its height in the early sixteenth century.
B) was universally condemned by the Catholic Church.
C) disappeared entirely by the early fifteenth century.
D) experienced a slow decline.
E) saw slaves from Africa and the eastern Mediterranean used mostly as courtly domestic servants and as skilled workers.

Question 74

The Italian Renaissance was primarily

A) a mass movement of the peasants.
B) characterized by a preoccupation with religion.
C) a product of rural Italy.
D) a recovery or rebirth of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture.
E) a religious reform movement.

Question 75

The Third Estate of the fifteenth century was

A) predominantly urban.
B) essentially free from the manorial system, especially in eastern Europe.
C) relatively free from violence and disease in urban areas.
D) overwhelmingly made up of peasants.
E) made up of clergy and nobles.

Question 76

Perhaps the most famous of Italian ruling woman was

A) Battista Sforza.
B) Isabella d'Este.
C) Christina of Milan.
D) Catherine de Medici.
E) Christine de Pizan.

Question 77

The author of the Book of the Courtier, a handbook on courtly manners, was

A) Baldassare Castiglione.
B) Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
C) Girolamo Savanarola.
D) Niccolò Machiavelli
E) Cosimo de Medici.

Question 78

What was the commercial and military league set up off the north coast of Germany?

A) Delian League
B) Prussian Confederation
C) Baltic League
D) League of German Cities
E) Hanseatic League

Question 79

The reintroduction of slavery in the fourteenth century occurred largely as a result of

A) continued warfare and the capture of foreign prisoners.
B) the shortage of workers created by the Black Death.
C) papal decrees encouraging a paternal relationship with pagans.
D) movements for Italian naval domination of the Mediterranean and the attendant need of manpower.
E) the importation of slaves from Africa.

Question 80

Two key areas of Renaissance technological innovation were

A) fireworks and glass making.
B) mill construction and hydraulics.
C) mining and metalworking, including manufacture of firearms.
D) optical instruments and lens grinding.
E) the use of the vault and the arch.