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This 14th-century Florentine is considered the "father" of Humanism in Renaissance Italy.

Who was Petrach?

100
This long war between England and France resulted in England's loss of neatly all its French territories.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
100

This sculptor created in the 15th century the first bronze statue since antiquity.

Who is Donatello?

100
This northern humanist wrote a powerful critique of Catholic Church abuses in In Praise of Folly.
Who is Erasmus?
100

This term refers to the flow of resources and goods between the New World and Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.

What is the Colombian Exchange?

200
This philosopher wrote on the Dignity of Man and believed humans were capable of achieving great things.
Who is Pico Della Mirandola?
200
This young peasant quasi-military leader helped the French defeat England in the Hundred Years' War.
Who is Joan of Arc?
200

Considered the "Father of Renaissance Painting", he began playing with perspective although never mastered it.

Who was Giotto?

200
This 15th century invention revolutionized communication and made new ideas much more widely available during the Renaissance.
What is the printing press (movable type)?
200
This conquistador subdued the Aztecs in 1521.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
300

This Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII wrote Utopia, a view of an ideal society based on Renaissance ideals.

Who was Sir Thomas More?

300
This was the period in which two popes controlled the Catholic Church: one from Rome and the other from Avignon.
What is the Great Schism?
300

This humanistic Renaissance painting by Raphael has Plato and Aristotle at its center.

What is The School of Athens (1510-1511)?

300

Together they expelled the Jews from Spain in 1492.

Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?

300
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to find an all-water route to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
400

The Courtier, written by this diplomat, was the most important work on courtly behavior and the ideal of the quintessential Renaissance man.

Who was Baldassare Castiglione?

400
This period is so-called because the pope led the Church from Avignon, allegedly under the influence of French monarchs.
What is the "Babylonian Captivity"?
400

His most famous painting, The Arnolfini Marriage, is filled with symbolism, characteristic of the Renaissance.

Who is Van Eyck?

400
Fleas on black rats caused this period of relative unhealthiness.
What is the Black Death?
400
This Portuguese royal invested large sums of money in the mid-fifteenth century to fund expeditions down the western coast of Africa.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
500

She wrote The Book of Three Virtues, in which she instructed women on how to live a good and ideal life.

Who was Christine de Pizan?

500
This guy wrote a masterpiece in the Italian Vernacular about the different levels of hell in the Divine Comedy.
Who is Dante Alighieri?
500
The Pieta, perhaps the most perfect sculpture of the Renaissance, was created by this Renaissance artist.
Who is Michelangelo?
500

This city-state was ruled first by the Visconti and then the Sforza families.

What is Milan?

500
The edict issued by the Pope in 1494 divided the world between Spain and Portugal by drawing a line down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Treaty of Tordesillas
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