Deck 12: Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance.

Question 1

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?

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Hanseatic League

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Question 3

Why were the humanists so interested in education? What kind of education did they promote?

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Question 4

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Francesco Sforza

Question 5

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

Question 6

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secularism

Question 7

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 8

What were the defining characteristics of the Italian Renaissance?

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Renaissance

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Leon Battista Alberti

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Jacob Burckhardt

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Cosimo de'Medici

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Castiglione's Book of the Courtier

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humanism

Question 15

How did monarchical governments develop during the fifteenth-century Renaissance? What accounts for the difference between the monarchies of Western Europe from those of Eastern Europe?

Question 16

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

Question 17

What role did the Renaissance papacy play in European politics and culture?

Question 18

What led to the economic recovery of the fifteenth century? What were the most important social consequences of that recovery?

Question 19

Discuss the major social changes of the Renaissance era. Were these changes a rejection or a continuation of medieval trends? Why?

Question 20

What major challenges faced the Catholic church in the fifteenth century? How did the church respond to these challenges?

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Urbino

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Donatello's David

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Petrarch

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Machiavelli's The Prince

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Hermeticism

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individualism

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Filippo Brunelleschi

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liberal studies

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the Papal States

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Johannes Gutenberg

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estates

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Neoplatonism

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Marsilio Ficino

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1527 sack of Rome

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civic humanism

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Masaccio

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nepotism

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Tribute Money

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Lorenzo the Magnificent

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Isabella d'Este

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Raphael

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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Saint Peter's Basilica

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Michelangelo

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taille

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new monarchies

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Northern Renaissance

Question 48

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the Habsburg dynasty

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John Wyclif and John Hus

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Julius II

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Louis XI the Spider and Henry VII

Question 53

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Ivan III

Question 54

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High Renaissance

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Spanish Inquisition

Question 56

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Constantinople and 1453

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Sistine Chapel

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Michelangelo's David

Question 59

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Jan van Eyck

Question 60

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Albrecht Dürer

Question 61

According to Castiglione, what was the aim of the perfect noble?

A)To enhance his family's wealth
B)To serve his prince in an effective and honest way
C)To become a member of a royal family
D)To found a royal dynasty
E)To enrich the lives of his dependents

Question 62

Which statement 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)Parents usually arranged marriages for their children to strengthen 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 63

The ____ was the center of the Italian family.

A)father
B)mother
C)son
D)daughter
E)grandmother

Question 64

Florence's prosperity in the fifteenth century was fueled by

A)its domination of cotton cultivation.
B)its position in the slave trade.
C)the recovery of its woolen industry.
D)the wars in France and Spain.
E)the discovery of the Americas.

Question 65

What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

A)Rebirth
B)New world
C)Maturation
D)Escape
E)Culture

Question 66

What was the Italian Renaissance?

A)A mass movement of the peasants against aristocrats
B)A movement preoccupied with economic reform
C)A product of rural Italy focused on agricultural development
D)A recovery or rebirth of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture
E)A religious reform movement

Question 67

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 68

Which family of merchants and bankers dominated Florence during the high point of the Renaissance?

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

Question 69

Which of these places was a republic during the fifteenth century?

A)Rome
B)Naples
C)Venice
D)Milan
E)Ferrara

Question 70

What was Italy's political status by the fifteenth century?

A)It was a centralized state.
B)It was dominated by the Papal States exclusively.
C)It was the foremost European power.
D)It was dominated by five major regional independent powers.
E)It was Europe's largest republican democracy.

Question 71

Peasants made up about ____ of the European population.

A)5 to 10 percent
B)30 to 35 percent
C)50 to 60 percent
D)60 to 80 percent
E)85 to 90 percent

Question 72

The majority of the wealth of the northern Italian cities used to fund the Renaissance was a result of

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

Question 73

Which of these groups was at the bottom of the social hierarchy in Renaissance Italy?

A)Peasants
B)Slaves
C)The urban poor
D)Factory workers
E)Parish priests

Question 74

Which of these groups comprised the First Estate?

A)The clergy
B)The nobility
C)The peasantry
D)The merchants
E)The monarchs

Question 75

Which statement best describes the sixteenth-century aristocracy?

A)The aristocracy dominated society as it had done in the Middle Ages.
B)The aristocracy was largely surpassed by the up and coming merchant class.
C)The aristocracy was still powerful, but had little new blood to keep it vital.
D)The aristocracy was extremely uneducated compared to the nobility of the Middle Ages.
E)The aristocracy largely disappeared by the early seventeenth century.

Question 76

According to Jacob Burckhardt, what did the Renaissance in Italy represent?

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 77

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Alexander VI

Question 78

Who was the author of The Book of the Courtier?

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

Question 79

Which of these groups was at the top of urban society during the Renaissance?

A)Patricians
B)Nobles
C)Clergy
D)Shopkeepers
E)Wage workers

Question 80

Who primarily comprised the Third Estate in the fifteenth century?

A)City residents
B)Merchants
C)Clergy
D)Peasants
E)Nobles