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

Question 1

Talk about:
condottieri

Answer 1

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Question 2

Talk about:
Leon Battista Alberti

Answer 2

Answers may vary.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Answers may vary.

Question 4

Talk about:
Hanseatic League

Question 5

Talk about:
Renaissance

Question 6

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

Question 7

Talk about:
Francesco Sforza

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

How did the artistic Renaissance differ in Italy and northern Europe?

Question 11

Talk about:
Cosimo de' Medici

Question 12

Talk about:
House of Medici

Question 13

What are the major features of Italian Renaissance humanism? What does the word humanism mean? Who were the humanists? What were their goals? Did they achieve them?

Question 14

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

Question 15

Talk about:
Castiglione's Book of the Courtier

Question 16

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 17

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

Question 18

In what ways was the Renaissance a "rebirth," driven by the recovery of old knowledge and perspectives? To what extent was the Renaissance a series of original innovations?

Question 19

Talk about:
Jacob Burckhardt

Question 20

Is it accurate to refer to the monarchies of the late fifteenth century as "new monarchies"? Why or why not?

Question 21

Talk about:
Johannes Gutenberg

Question 22

Talk about:
civic humanism

Question 23

Talk about:
the Papal States

Question 24

Talk about:
Machiavelli's The Prince

Question 25

Talk about:
humanism

Question 26

Talk about:
the Italian wars

Question 27

Talk about:
Francesco Guicciardini

Question 28

Talk about:
Renaissance Hermeticism

Question 29

Talk about:
Marsilio Ficino and Neoplatonism

Question 30

Talk about:
Lorenzo Valla

Question 31

Talk about:
Isabella d'Este

Question 32

Talk about:
Battista Sforza

Question 33

Talk about:
Leonardo Bruni's The New Cicero

Question 34

Talk about:
Peace of Lodi and balance of power

Question 35

Talk about:
panetheism

Question 36

Talk about:
individualism and secularism

Question 37

Talk about:
Federigo da Montefeltro

Question 38

Talk about:
Petrarch

Question 39

Talk about:
"liberal studies"

Question 40

Talk about:
Pico della Mirandola's Oration

Question 41

Talk about:
Ferdinand and Isabella

Question 42

Talk about:
"new monarchies"

Question 43

Talk about:
Botticelli's Primavera

Question 44

Talk about:
Henry VII

Question 45

Talk about:
Donatello's David

Question 46

Talk about:
Louis XI the Spider

Question 47

Talk about:
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists

Question 48

Talk about:
Raphael

Question 49

Talk about:
Sistine Chapel's Creation of Adam

Question 50

Talk about:
madrigals

Question 51

Talk about:
Leonardo da Vinci

Question 52

Talk about:
Michelangelo

Question 53

Talk about:
Masaccio

Question 54

Talk about:
Albrecht Durer

Question 55

Talk about:
Brunelleschi's dome

Question 56

Talk about:
Jan van Eyck

Question 57

Talk about:
Bramante and Saint Peter's

Question 58

Talk about:
High Renaissance

Question 59

Talk about:
Northern Renaissance

Question 60

Talk about:
Lorenzo the Magnificent

Question 61

The commercial and military association known as the Hansa or Hanseatic League was created by?

A) the Italian republics
B) the kingdom of France
C) Ferdinand and Isabella
D) Constantinople
E) North German coastal towns

Question 62

The word "Renaissance" means

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

Question 63

Propertyless workers and the unemployed constituted what percentage of the population living in cities?

A) 10 to 20 percent.
B) 30 to 40 percent.
C) 50 to 70 percent.
D) 70 to 90 percent.
E) greater than 90 percent.

Question 64

Talk about:
Sacrosancta , Frequens , and Execrabilis

Question 65

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 66

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 67

Talk about:
fall of Constantinople

Question 68

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 69

Talk about:
Ivan III

Question 70

The Book of the Courtier was a

A) primer on military training for nobles.
B) 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 71

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 72

Talk about:
nepotism

Question 73

Talk about:
the Habsburgs

Question 74

Talk about:
John Wyclif and John Hus

Question 75

Which of the following is not true of industries in fifteenth-century Italy?

A) Italian cities expanded luxury industries involving precious stones and glassware.
B) New techniques for digging deeper mines helped spur the development of larger mining operations.
C) The Florentine woolen industry never recovered from the economic depression of the fourteenth century.
D) New skills in metalworking contributed to the development of more effective firearms.
E) Printing was among the new industries that grew dramatically in importance.

Question 76

Talk about:
Spanish Inquisition

Question 77

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 78

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 of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture.
E) a religious reform movement.

Question 79

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 80

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.