Beginning
Where did the Renaisance begin?
Italy
Roman influenced: columns, arches, and domes
What was the main religion during the Renaissance?
Catholicism
Italy was divided into small what?
City-states
Who is the author of "The Pardoner's Tale" and what is the name of the collection of stories in which it is written?
The Canterbury Tales
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
What is a Florentine who lived in the 1300s and was an early Renaissance humanist, poet, and scholar.
What is "perspective" in art?
A drawing technique using a vanishing point that allowed artists to improve three dimensional drawing.
Why was Catholicism dominant during the Renaissance?
Rome is located in Italy, and Italy was the center of the Renaissance.
What group of people controlled most city-states in Italy?
A wealthy and powerful merchant class.
Who is the author of "The Decameron"?
Giovanni Boccaccio
What does "Renaissance" mean?
Raphael Sanzio da Urbino
What was the primary language spoken in Church services, and the language in which the Bible was written?
Latin
Name one group of people in the upper class.
Merchants
Nobility
Royalty
Why did the Reniassance begin in Italy?
It was the center of trade
What are two of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings?
What is the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
What invention changed the language of the church?
The printing press
Where did the Medici family rule?
Florence
What did Machiavelli mean when he said a Prince should be both a fox and a lion?
Lion = fierce, predatory, deadly, fearless; make the hard decisions
Fox = cunning, clever; do what is smart, not what is popular.
The spirit of adventure from the Renaissance led to what Age?
The Age of Exploration
What is Michaelangelo's most famous work?
Sistine Chapel
What is humanism?
An outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters
What killed 90% of the population of Florence?
The Bubonic Plague / Black Death
Why did The Prince cause arguments?
It said that rulers must be feared, not loved, and that rulers should not always do what the people want in order to be popular. Instead, they should do what is necessary to preserve their state.