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Western Civilization - Chapter 12 Flashcards

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8273415738A key assistant and partner to Cortés in his assault on the Aztecs was:La Malinche0
8273419294According to Machiavelli, the ideal form of government was:A republic modeled on the Roman example.1
8273427742After confederating their kingdoms through marriage, Ferdinand and Isabella devoted their energies to:Creating one of Europe's most powerful armies2
8273432359Although he did manage to discover a world unknown to Europeans, Christopher Columbus did so in spite of:Gross miscalculation of the earth's size.3
8273437239Beginning in the 1440s, design changes in Portuguese caravels allowed them to:Sail with two masts and triangular sails, which required fewer sailors.4
8273442207During the Renaissance, sculpture broke with the recent past in that statuary:Depicted freestanding figures "in the round."5
8273448851Having succeeded in conquering Granada, through her sponsorship of Columbus's voyages, Isabella conceptually:Helped export the tradition of conquest to the New World.6
8273453815In Spain, the Reconquista effectively ended Muslim rulers' policy of:Convivencia.7
8273459251In contrast to the civic humanists, Castiglione, in his book The Courtier, stressed as the hallmark of true nobility:An ideal of effortlessness and elegance at court.8
8273466301In the Renaissance, artists mastered:The technique of vanishing perspective.9
8273472279Leonardo da Vinci's skills included all of the following except:Poetry.10
8273477581Machiavelli felt that Cesare Borgia:Might help make Italy fit for self-governance again.11
8273482210Marsilio Ficino taught the neoplatonic idea that:One should strive to free one's immortal soul from mortal bodies.12
8273488295Michelangelo's greatest achievement as a painter was the:Sistine Chapel.13
8273493705One of the most likely reasons that Renaissance ideals were slow to take hold in northern Europe was because:The curriculum in Italian schools focused on professions, while in the north it was focused on theological and philosophical training.14
8273499124One of the reasons Raphael's School of Athens is of interest is that:Many of Raphael's contemporaries were used as models for the various philosophers.15
8273505960Prince Henry the Navigator was motivated to promote voyages of discovery and colonization by:The desire for African gold and to join in the Ottoman slave trade.16
8273511709The Spanish modeled their Caribbean sugar plantations, worked by enslaved African laborers, on:Portuguese sugar plantations on the Cape Verde Islands and the island of Saint Thomas.17
8273517387The first northern artist to master the Renaissance techniques of proportion and perspective was:Albrecht Dürer.18
8273523187The increasing use of artillery after 1400 resulted in:Walls and castles becoming obsolete as defensive structures.19
8273530592The industry that most fundamentally shaped the sixteenth-century Spanish colonies in Central and South America was:Mining.20
8273539600The larger size and stability of the caravels and subsequent ship designs of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries:Allowed the ships to become floating artillery platforms.21
8273546166The leader of the first European expedition to reach Asia by sailing west was:Ferdinand Magellan.22
8273551426To promote the unity of Spain and foster its continued development as a nation-state, Ferdinand and Isabella:Promoted Castilian Spanish as the single national language.23
8273558003What happened within a generation of Columbus's first voyage?European diseases had spread widely in the Caribbean and along the American coastlines.24

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