Chapter 12: The Renaissance – Flashcards
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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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Which of the following was not one of the five major powers that dominated the fifteenth-century Italian peninsula?
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Mantua
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The Italian Renaissance was primarily
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a recovery of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture
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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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The commercial and military association known as the Hansa or Hanseatic League was created by?
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North Germany coastal towns
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Which ancient writer was considered by the civic humanists as their model?
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Cicero
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Johannes Gutenberg was a key developer of
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the movable type printing press
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Which pair of artists both sculpted a likeness of King David?
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Donatello and Michelangelo
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After 1438, the position of the Holy Roman Emperor remained in the hands of
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Habsburg dynasty
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In Renaissance Italy
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the importance of the family helps explain the policy of retaliation involved in the vendetta
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The development of printing in the fifteenth century
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ensured that literacy and new knowledge would spread rapidly in European society
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Humanism's main effect on the writing of history was
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the secularization of the writing of history and the explanation of change over time
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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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The "new monarchs" of the late fifteenth century in Europe
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were focused upon the acquisition and expansion of power
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The word "Renaissance" means
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rebirth
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The family of merchants and bankers who dominated Florence during the high point of the Renaissance were the
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Medici
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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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The Third Estate of the fifteenth century was
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overwhelmingly made up of peasants
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The Book of Courtier was a
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popular handbook laying out the new skills in politics, the arts, and personal comportment expected of Renaissance aristocrats
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In the late fifteenth century, Italy became a battleground for competing interest of the rulers of what countries?
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Spain and France
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The Byzantine Empire was finally destroyed in 1453 by the
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Ottoman Turks
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The Renaissance papacy
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was often seen as corrupt and debauched, as evidenced by Alexander VI
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The liberal education taught by Vittorino da Feltre
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contained as its primary goal the creation of well-rounded, virtuous and ethical citizens
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The monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella
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all of the above
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The War of the Roses refers to a civil conflict in
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England
