French word meaning "rebirth" that is used to describe the rebirth of classical antiquity.
What is Renaissance?
100
A program of study designed to emphasize the study of classical Latin and Greek literature with the main goal of understanding human nature.
What is Humanism?
100
Name one famous Italian Renaissance painter.
Who are Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, Giotto, or Brunelleschi?
100
This nation began slave trade that brought many Africans into Europe to work as servants and entertainers.
What is Portugal?
100
This nation was left weakened by the Hundred Years War and the black death, BUT saw a great revival during the Renaissance due to King Charles VII.
What is France?
200
Financial support of writers and artists by cities, groups and individuals, often to produce specific works or works in specific styles.
What is Patronage?
200
This was the quality of being able to shape the world according to one's own will.
What is Virtu?
200
Renaissance art was influenced by art from these two places.
What are Rome and Greece?
200
This group of people experienced more wealth and had the opportunity to join the upper class.
Who are Merchants?
200
This family helped establish order, peace and stability to England during the Renaissance.
What is the Tudor family?
300
Sworn assoications of free men in Italian cities led by merchant guilds that sought political and economic indepence from local nobles.
What are Communes?
300
These people interpreted Italian ideas/attitudes about classical civilizations, but in terms of their own religious traditions.
Who are Christian Humanists?
300
How did artistic styles change in the Renaissance?
Artists moved away from religious themes and began using realism to paint and sculpt.
300
This queen stated that there were too many "blackamoores" who were taking jobs away from her citizens.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
300
King Henry VII married this famous Spanish woman who would later marry King Henry VIII.
Who is Catherine of Aragon?
400
Disenfranchised common people in Italian cities who resented their exclusion from power.
Who are the Popolo?
400
This political thinker believed that a successful government is one that brings security, order and safety to their population, even if it means acting in ruthless ways.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
400
This city-state was the artistic center of the Renaissance in the 16th century.
What is Venice?
400
The development of a hierarchy of wealth meant that the hierarchy of orders would no longer exist. True or false?
FALSE!
400
This nation gained land and power through the marriage of these two people.
What is Spain AND who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
500
Government led by one individual who ruled over city-states like Florence.
What is a Signori?
500
How did the development of the printing press change intellectual and political thought throughout all of Europe?
The invention of a moveable printing press allowed printers to print and copy books and pamphlets to reach the public at higher speeds. It also allowed these books and pamphlets to reach more people than they had before. The printing press allow increased literacy throughout Europe.
500
What group of people were excluded from institutions of Renaissance culture (art schools and writing)?
Who are women and people from families with little money?
500
This was an argument between writers and thinkers in the Renaissance about women's qualities and proper role in society.
What is the debate about women?
500
This group of people were treated fairly in Spain throughout most of the Renaissance, however they were later expelled from the country.