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Prior to the Golden Bull of 1356, Germany was a land composed of

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hundreds of virtually independent states.

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The Italian condettieri were

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leaders of mercenary bands, occasionally ruling as military dictators

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Banquets during the Renaissance

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we're used to express wealth and power of an aristocratic family.

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The Ottoman Turkish sultan who captured Constinople in 143 was

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Mehmet II.

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What was Boccaccio's most famous work?

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The Decameron

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In Defender of The Peace, Marsiglio of Padua took the position that

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the church must consign itself solely to spiritual functions

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The bubonic plague originated in

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Asia

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One decisive advantage that England had at the beginning of the Hundred Years' War was

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longbow

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The mystic who founded the Modern Devotion movement and led the group known as the Brothers of the Common Life was

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Gerard Groote

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Dante's Dive Comedy

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Is considered a synthesis of medieval Christian thought

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After helping drive the English from France, Joan of Arc went on to

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be burned at the stake as a heretic

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Italian artists in the fifteenth century began to

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experiment in areas of perspective

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Marriages in Renaissance Italy

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were an economic necessity of life involving complicated family negotiations

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France's "first woman of letters" was

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Christian de Pizan

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Italian Renaissance humanism in the early fifteenth century, above all else

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was based on the study of the Greco-Roman classics

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Meister Eckhart

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was a mystic who claimed that one could achieve a union of the soul with God.

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The French government and aristocracy responded to the Jacquerie by

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massacering the participants

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One overall result of the Great Schism was

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badly damaged the faith of many Christian believers

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The Renaissance figure in the following list who was not a leading painter was

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Petrarch

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All of the following monarchs were successful in continuing the centralization of their "new monarchy" except

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Maximalian I of the Holy Roman Empure

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The Renaissance popes did all of the followng except

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attempt to return to the papacy to more humble times

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Humanism's main effect on the writing of history was

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the secularization of historiography and the explanation of change over time

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A key economic consequence of the plague was

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a decline in manorialism and weakening of feudalism as noble landlords desperate for cash converted peasant labor service to market rents freeing their serfs

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

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Marriages were usually arranged, to strengthen familial alliances

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John Wyclif criticized the Church for

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not letting people read the Bible in the vernacular

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The most revolutionary of thirteenth and fourteenth-century inventions were

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clocks

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

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Baldassare Casiglione

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By the fifteenth centure, Italy was

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dominated by five major regional independent powers

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What was the main cause of the early fourteenth century famines

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a little ice age inducing bad weather with heavy rains

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Under Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain

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saw Muslim power vanish from the peninsula

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In the conduct of the Hundred Years' War, a sure sign of feudalism's decline was the

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decisive role of peasant foot soldiers rather then united knights

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Two keys areas of Renaissance technological innovation were

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mining and metalworking, including manufacture of firearms

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The Italian Renaissance was primarily

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a recovery or rebirth of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture

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In Concerning Character, Piertro Paolo Vergerio argued that liberal studies led to

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true freedom

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

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the shortage of labor created by the Black Death

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The chief ambition of the Venetian city-state in the 14th century was

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to create a maritime commercial empire throughout the Mediterranean and Black seas

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All of the following are correct about Petrarch except he

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wrote sonnets in Latin

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Post-Plague socioeconomic relations between rich and poor in Europe

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suffered as richer nobles rebuffed the sincere efforts of peasants to maintain the manorial system

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

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trade

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Which of the following is not true of Northern Renaissance artists

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They valued the secular human form as the primary subject of painting

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Economically, the great plague and the crises of the 14th century

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raised wages bc of a scarcity of labor

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The English Peasants' Revolt of 1381

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was caused by the rising economic expectations of ordinary people

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Politically, France by the en of the 14th century

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chaos and ciil war as rival noble factions found for control of realm

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Pogroms were

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organized massacres against the jews

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Florence was ruled throughout most of the 13th and 14th centuries by the

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popolo grasso

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Slavery in Renaissance Italy

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saw slaved from Africa and the eastern Mediterranean used mostly as courtly domestic servants and as skilled workers

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The 15th century theologian who claimed that reason could not prove spirtual truth was

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Occam

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Castiglione's The Courter was a

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very popular handbook laying out the new skills in politics, the arts, and personal compartment expected of Renaissance

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The "new monarchs: of the late 15th century in Europe

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were focused upon the acqusition and expansion of power

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Machiavelli's The Prince advocates that a successful ruler must

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act without scruples for the good of the state

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Who said "Christ is my God; Cicero is the prince of the language"

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Petrach

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Western Europe in the Renaissance saw

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a decline in serfdom

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The European aristocracy responded to the adversity of the great plague by

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seeking to lower wages by legal means, especially for farm laborers

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The conflict between Pope Boniface VII and Philip IV of France began when Philip

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taxed churchmen without the Church's permission

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The devastation of the great plague in 14th century led to

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the perception of life as something cheap and pissing

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Which pair of artist both sculpted a likeness of David?

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Donatello and Michelangelo

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The Byzantine Empire was finally destroyed in 1453 by the

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Ottoman Turks

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Perhaps the most famous of Italian ruling woman was

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Isabella d'Este

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Joan of Arc saved France by inspiring the French soldiers to break the English siege of

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Bordeaux

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

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Medici

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From 1305 to 1377, the Papacy resided across the French border in the town of

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Avignon

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Who painted "The Last Supper"?

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Leonardo

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A subject of particular interest to 15th century humanists was

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theology

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The achievements of the Italian Renaissance were the products of

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an elite movement, involving small numbers of wealthy patrons, artists, and intellectuals

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The flagellants

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were groups that physically punished themselves to win the forgiveness of God

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Thea aristocracy of the 16th century was

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to dominate society as it had done in the Middle Ages

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Among the great and influential female religion mystics of the 14th century was

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Catherine of Siena

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The Golden Bull of 1356 in Germany

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gave seven electors the power to choose the "king of the Romans"

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Federigo da Montefeltro of Urbino was

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an example of a skilled, intelligent, independent Italian warrior prince

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The Black Death

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recurred in severe outbreaks for centuries

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