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This 14th-century Florentine is considered the "father" of Humanism in Renaissance Italy.
Who is Petrach?
100
This long war between England and France resulted in England's loss of nearly all its French territories except Calais.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
100
The dome of the Cathedral di Santa Maria del Fiore, or “Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower” (1377-1446), is a well-known structure in Florence engineered by _______________
Brunelleschi
100
This 15th century invention revolutionized communication and made new ideas much more widely available during the Renaissance.
What is the printing press (movable type)?
100
This Portuguese explorer was the first to round the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa.
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
100
Tribunal established by Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella de Castille to institute catholic orthodoxy across Spain
Spanish Inquisition
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
A technique from the Italian Renaissance in which figures would be placed with one side of the body leaning dominantly on one foot while the other side of the body, feet, and hips, would appear lower
Contrapposto
200
This northern humanist wrote a powerful critique of Catholic Church abuses in In Praise of Folly.
Who is Erasmus
200
This conquistador subdued the Aztecs in 1521.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
Treaty that ended the war between the Holy Roman Empire and the protestant states. It established that the monarch of each state had the right to define the religion of their state.
Peace of Augsburg
300
This Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII wrote Utopia, a view of an ideal society based on Renaissance ideals.
Who is 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
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?
300
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to find an all-water route to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
300
Decree issued by King Henry IV of France, which granted religious freedom to the Huguenots (French Protestants) and ended the French wars of religion
Edict of Nantes
400
this philosophers ideas were similar to those found in realpolitik
Machiavelli
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
This German was the foremost Northern Renaissance artist, a master of the woodcut.
What is Albrecht Durer?
400
The Kingdom of Granada falls to Spanish forces, completing the ________________?
Spanish Reconquista
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?
400
everything to do with the way people worship in public. In fact, this noun comes to us from the Greek word leitourgia, which means "public service, worship of the gods."
Liturgy
500
The Courtier, written by this diplomat, was the most important work on courtly behavior and the ideal of the quintessential Renaissance man.
Who is Baldassare Castiglione?
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
In addition to the conquest of the last Muslim outpost in Spain at Granada and Columbus' voyage to the Americas, what major event occurred in the Iberian Peninsula in 1492?
The Jewish Population was expelled from Spain
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
500
an agreement between King Francis I of France and Pope Leo X, signed in 1516, that gave the French monarchy the power to appoint bishops, archbishops, and other high-ranking clergy in exchange for the Pope retaining the right to collect church revenues from benefices
Concordat of Bologna