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100
What does the word renaissance mean?
Rebirth
100
Which family dominated Florence during the Renaissance?
de' Medici
100
Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
100
An image painted on wet plaster is known is known as what?
Fresco
100
What is the name of this famous work and where is it found?
The creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel
200
The study of grammar, rhetoric, moral philosophy, and history was the basis of what intellectual movement?
Humanism
200
This man emphasized predestination, the belief that God chose who would be saved and who would be damned.
John Calvin
200
Machiavelli's central thesis in The Prince concerns how to acquire- and keep- political power. What was Machiavelli's point of view on how a prince should rule?
Machiavelli believed a prince's attitude toward power must be based on an understanding of human nature, which he believed was basically self-centered. Political activity, therefore, should not be restricted by moral principles.
200
How did Renaissance artists portray the human body?
The human body was portrayed in a realistic yet idealized way. Human beings were meant to be a reflection of divine beauty. The more beautiful the body the more God-like the figure.
200
What was the main goal of Christian humanism?
The major goal was to reform the Catholic church
300
The money and goods given by the wife's family at the time of marriage is called what?
Dowery
300
This famous Christian humanist called his view of religion "the philosophy of Christ." By this he meant that Christianity should show people how to live good lives on a daily basis rather than provide a system of beliefs that people have to practice to be saved.
Desiderius Erasmus
300
Who invented the printing press and how did this invention impact European society?
Johannes Gutenberg.
The printing of books encouraged scholarly research and increased the public's desire to gain knowledge. The new religious ideas of the Reformation would not have spread as rapidly as they did in the 16th century without the printing press.
300
Which Italian city did the most Renaissance artists work?
Florence
300
An end to religious warfare in Germany came in 1555 with the _______________. This agreement formally accepted the division of Christianity in Germany.
Peace of Augsburg
400
A soldier who sells their services to the highest bidder
mercenary
400
This Holy Roman emperor ruled an immense empire consisting of Spain and its colonies, the Austrian lands, Bohemia, Hungary, the Low countries, the duchy of Milan in northern Italy, and the kingdom of Naples in southern Italy. He wanted to keep this enormous empire under the control of the dynasty- the Hapsburgs. Religiously he hoped to preserve the unity of his empire by keeping it Catholic
Charles V
400
This author wrote The Book of the City of Ladies. This work denounced the many male writers who had argued that women, by their very nature, are unable to learn and are easily swayed.
Christine De Pizan
400
The high renaissance is associated with which three famous artists?
Michaelangelo. Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci
400
Why did Henry VIII form the Church of England?
Henry VIII wanted to divorce his first wife Catherine after she did not bear him a male heir to the throne. The Pope of the Catholic church would not annul his marriage to Catherine. Therefore Henry turned to England's own church courts and later created the Church of England.
500
In the Catholic church, this was a way to reduce the amount of punishment one had to undergo for sins.
An indulgence
500
This man has often been called the father of Italian Renaissance humanism. He did more than any other individual in the fourteenth century to foster the development of humanism. This man looked for forgotten Latin manuscripts in monastic libraries throughout Europe.
Petrarch
500
In Dante's masterpiece the Divine Comedy, what are the three sections the poem is divided into and what happens in the story?
Hell, purgatory and heaven. It is the story of the soul's journey to salvation. Dante is led on an imaginary journey through these three realms until he reaches paradise, where he beholds God or "the love that moves the sun and other stars."
500
Name the artist of this painting
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael
500
A priest in Zurich began to introduce religious reforms. Relics and images were abolished. All paintings and decorations were removed from the churches and replaced by whitewash walls. A new church service consisted of reading scripture, prayer, and sermons replaced the Catholic mass. What was the name of this priest?
Ulrich Zwingli