Western Civ Chapter 10-12 Quiz – Flashcards

All of the following are reasons why the ideals of the Italian Renaissance were slow to impact northern Europe EXCEPT that: a. the curricula of northern universities left little room for study of the classics. b. education in the north was more religiously oriented compared to the more secular education common in the south. c. most individuals who were influenced by Renaissance thought before the sixteenth century were not public intellectuals or teachers but worked outside the university system under private patronage. d. rulers in the north were less committed to patronizing artists and intellectuals than were the rulers of the Italian city-states. e. few people traveled between Italy and northern Europe before the turn of the sixteenth century.

A fundamental source of conflict in the Hundred Years' War was that:

(T/F) Being a slave carried relatively little social stigma in the Ottoman empire.

As a result of the depopulation in Europe caused by the Black Death:

Hernán Cortés was aided in his conquest of the Aztec empire by all of the following EXCEPT: a. European bacteria. b. the tactical planning of his native allies. c. people subjugated by the Aztecs who wanted to rebel. d. the European rifles he had brought with him. e. a consort who was indigenous and spoke the common language of the empire.

Aside from starvation, the most devastating effect of the Great Famine was the:

Bubonic plague is spread by:

According to Machiavelli, the ideal form of government was a(n):

(T/F) A "Renaissance Man" as defined in Castiglione's book The Courtier was considered to be one who could subordinate his personal morality to political ends.

Long-distance trade in the thirteenth century usually occurred:

Compared to the western Europe of 1300, the western Europe of 1450 had _________ people and a(n) _________ standard of living.

Petrarch believed that the "Dark Ages" were not the pagan past, but the Middle Ages, the time that separated him from: