Deck 13: The Opening of the Atlantic and the Pacific

Question 1

The most prominent family of Florence in the Renaissance was the ________.

A) de' Medici
B) Borgias
C) Buonarroti
D) Arnolfini

Answer 1

de' Medici

Question 2

Maimonides is best known as a(n)________.

A) painter
B) architect
C) philosopher
D) military leader

Answer 2

philosopher

Question 3

The creator of Vitruvian Man was ________.

A) Masaccio
B) Michelangelo Buonarroti
C) Jan van Eyck
D) Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 3

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 4

The sculptor of the David was ________.

A) Filippo Brunelleschi
B) Michelangelo Buonarroti
C) Niccoló Machiavelli
D) Masaccio

Question 5

Which of these was a Muslim philosopher who was rediscovered in Europe during the Renaissance?

A) Maimonides
B) Peter Abelard
C) Saladin
D) Avicenna

Question 6

The Black Death has traditionally been identified as ________.

A) bubonic plague
B) chicken pox
C) typhoid
D) anthrax

Question 7

The Golliard Poets worked in the context of Europe's ________.

A) monasteries
B) universities
C) guilds
D) villages

Question 8

The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is found in what city?

A) Rome
B) Florence
C) Milan
D) Venice

Question 9

Henry the Navigator was the ruler of ________.

A) Spain
B) Portugal
C) England
D) Germany

Question 10

Which was the focus of manufacturing in Florence in the Renaissance period?

A) iron products
B) pottery
C) woolen cloth
D) paper

Question 11

One of Europe's earliest universities was at ________,where legal studies were emphasized.

A) Paris
B) Cambridge
C) Bologna
D) Salerno

Question 12

In the late 1200s,revolts broke out in ________ cities.

A) French
B) Italian
C) English
D) Flemish

Question 13

Which of these was a preeminent Catholic theologian who wrote Summa Theologiae?

A) Francis of Assisi
B) Avicenna
C) Thomas Aquinas
D) Niccoló Machiavelli

Question 14

Which of these was discovered in the 1400s,influencing Renaissance mapping?

A) Aristotle's Republic
B) the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas
C) the works of Averroes
D) Ptolemy's Geography

Question 15

The first Russian capital was ________.

A) Kiev
B) St. Petersburg
C) Moscow
D) Archangelsk

Question 16

Iceland and Newfoundland were settled by ________ in the ninth and tenth centuries.

A) Spaniards
B) the Dutch
C) Vikings
D) English

Question 17

The Ciompi of Florence were ________.

A) guild masters
B) low-level workers
C) magistrates
D) artists

Question 18

The Hanseatic League brought together cities of ________ Europe.

A) eastern
B) northern
C) western
D) southern

Question 19

The first European voyage that sailed around the southern tip of Africa was led by ________.

A) Christopher Columbus
B) Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
C) Bartolomeu Dias
D) Ferdinand Magellan

Question 20

Which of these was most commonly used in the Mediterranean during the Renaissance?

A) dhow
B) caravel
C) junk
D) frigate

Question 21

Vasco Nuñez de Balboa was the first European to ________.

A) reach the Indian Ocean
B) visit China
C) realize the Americas were continents
D) sail across the Atlantic

Question 22

The Ciompi and Flemish revolts were signs of ________.

A) the beginnings of capitalism
B) growing social divisions
C) the impact of the Black Death
D) urban decline

Question 23

Which of these best characterizes the influence of Muslim scholars on the European thought of the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance?

A) Muslim philosophers developed systems of rational thought that influenced Hellenistic scholars.
B) Muslim scholars were influential in developing new approaches to reason that influenced European thinkers.
C) The work of Muslim scholars was increasingly rejected in the fourteenth century, therefore their influence was minimal.
D) Muslim scholars helped Europeans rediscover classical thought.

Question 24

Which of these can be considered the dominant philosophical movement of the 1400s and 1500s?

A) the Renaissance
B) neoplatonism
C) Christianity
D) humanism

Question 25

Which of these best describes the purpose of guilds?

A) sell goods
B) protect members and make it easier to do business
C) organize labor
D) promoting long-distance trade

Question 26

The greatest long-term impact of the Black Death was in what area of European culture?

A) social relations
B) gender relations
C) the arts
D) the economy

Question 27

Thomas Aquinas worked to ________.

A) reconcile classical and Christian intellectual traditions
B) foster the use of reason as the best way to discovering truth
C) subordinate reason to Christian theology
D) fit Christian theology into the structure of Greek reason

Question 28

The putting-out system can be characterized as a ________ system.

A) trade diaspora
B) market
C) guild
D) simple manufacturing

Question 29

Organization such as the Hanseatic League existed to ________.

A) earn money for investors
B) manufacture goods
C) provide for their cities' defense
D) protect and promote trade

Question 30

The spread of the Black Death was an indirect result of the ________.

A) creation of the Mongol Empire
B) arrival of infected rats in Europe
C) growth of the Indian Ocean trade network
D) voyages of Zheng He

Question 31

Which of these is a probable message of The Triumph of Death?

A) The Black Death had higher mortality rates among Europe's elites.
B) All are equal in death.
C) Women were hardest-hit by the plague.
D) Death is everywhere.

Question 32

Which of these led the first voyage to sail around the world?

A) Ferdinand Magellan
B) Gerardus Mercator
C) Amerigo Vespucci
D) Vasco Nuñez de Balboa

Question 33

Which of these reached the Bahamas in 1492?

A) Christopher Columbus
B) Amerigo Vespucci
C) Bartolomeu Dias
D) Vasco da Gama

Question 34

The portrait Avicenna illustrates ________.

A) prejudices against foreigners in medieval Europe
B) the influence of Islam on European painting
C) European esteem for Muslim scholars
D) hostile attitudes towards Jews and Muslims in Renaissance Europe

Question 35

The fields of study at medieval universities can be characterized as ________.

A) extremely narrow
B) limited to Christian theology
C) broad
D) focusing on the arts

Question 36

The notion of the medieval period was ________.

A) a natural division
B) a Renaissance invention
C) based on millennia
D) founded on medieval ideas

Question 37

Looking at the map "The Renaissance in Italy," which of these best characterizes the position of the papacy?

A) diminishing
B) less important than Florence and Venice
C) second only to Milan
D) strong and strategic

Question 38

In the map "The routes of the plague," which of these regions remained relatively untouched?

A) France
B) Italy
C) Russia
D) Spain

Question 39

Gerardus Mercator is best known for his work as a(n)________.

A) architect
B) navigator
C) explorer
D) mapmaker

Question 40

The voyages of Columbus were funded by ________.

A) Venice
B) Portugal
C) Spain
D) France

Question 41

Like movable type,cannons illustrate ________.

A) the importation of new ideas from the Mongol world
B) the influence of trade on technical change
C) innovations in military technology
D) European developments of Chinese innovations

Question 42

In The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait,which of these is a focus in this double portrait?

A) piety
B) affluence
C) love
D) domestic happiness

Question 43

When much of the Mediterranean became a "Muslim lake," European merchants ________.

A) profited from the new networks that emerged
B) began to push into African markets
C) found their opportunities limited
D) focused on the western Mediterranean

Question 44

Use The Triumph of Death to consider the different impacts of the Black Death on Europe.

Question 45

Both Vitruvian Man and Trinity with the Virgin,St.John,and Donors illustrate what aspect of Renaissance art?

A) classical settings for paintings
B) the dominance of secular themes
C) a focus on the human form
D) the use of allegory

Question 46

Which of these best characterizes the motives for the Spanish and Portuguese voyages of discovery?

A) religious
B) commercial
C) scientific
D) mixed

Question 47

What drove the Renaissance? Compare the different factors that drove this burst of artistic and intellectual activity.

Question 48

What do you consider the most important factors impacting Europe's economy in the late medieval and Renaissance periods?

Question 49

Looking at the map "World exploration,1450-1600," compared to the Americas,which of these was least immune to European incursions?

A) Africa
B) China
C) Mughal India
D) the Philippines

Question 50

Compare the voyages of the Zheng He,the Vikings,and men such as Christopher Columbus.Consider their motives,their backing,and their methods.

Question 51

Like the Buddha,St.Francis epitomized the ________ life.

A) monastic
B) Buddhist
C) ascetic
D) intellectual

Question 52

Looking at the map "World exploration,1450-1600," which of these is illustrated by the Ottoman and Safavid empires?

A) the motive for Europeans to find new sea routes
B) support for European commerce
C) new lucrative markets for European traders
D) the strongest competitors for dominance in central Asia

Question 53

Viking explorations across the Atlantic can be characterized as having been undertaken ________.

A) boldly
B) piecemeal
C) with state support
D) timidly

Question 54

In the map "Scandinavian and Arab Muslim invasions," unlike France and Britain,the Byzantine Empire was ________.

A) able to repel attacks from outsiders
B) not attacked by either the Vikings nor the Arab Muslims
C) split apart by these invasions
D) most impacted by these invasions

Question 55

What were the long-term consequences of the Mongol Empire and its fall in European affairs of the Renaissance and after?