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| 7206681698 | Renaissance | From the French word meaning "rebirth" a period of cultural and intellectual creativity in Western Europe between 1300-1570 AD. The artists and intellectuals who created the movement saw themselves reconnecting with the traditions of ancient Greece and Rome, thus giving a "rebirth" to European culture. The cultural rebirth was accompanied by an expanding urban economy, another rebirth | 0 | |
| 7206681699 | Guild | A sworn association of people who gather for some common purpose. In the towns of medieval Europe, guilds of craftsmen or merchants were formed to protect and further their business interests and for mutual aid | 1 | |
| 7206681700 | Putting-out system | In the putting-out system, employers provide employees with raw materials and the orders for turning them into finished products, which they then buy on completion. The employees carry out the work at home | 2 | |
| 7206681964 | Ghetto | The part of a city in which a particular group is confined for its living space. Name originally for an area adjacent to iron foundry (in Italian, ghetto) in sixteenth-century Venice where Jews were segregated by government order, the term has been used most often to designate segregated Jewish living areas in European cities. It is also used, more broadly, to indicate any area where specific groups are segregated whether by law, by force, or by choice | 3 | |
| 7206681965 | Medieval | The "middle period." Europeans of the Renaissance period, who felt that they were at last, reconnecting with the glories of ancient Greece and Rome, called the ten centuries in between the end of the Roman empire and the beginning of the Renaissance "the medieval period." They used the term pejoratively. More recent scholars see that very long period as far more complicated and diverse and carve it up by specific geographical regions and into much smaller periods of time | 4 | |
| 7206681966 | Humanism | Cultural movement initiated in Western Europe in the fourteenth century deriving from the rediscovery and study of Greek and Roman literary texts, Most humanists continued to believe in God, but emphasized the study of humans | 5 | |
| 8584959556 | In the 1300s and 1400s, guilds: | successfully agitated for a voice in city government | 6 | |
| 8584959557 | As expressed in Aquinas' Summa Theologica, the Church began to modify its traditional opposition towards: | business and businessmen | 7 | |
| 8584959558 | Permanent contact between Europe and the Americas did not occur until | 1492 C.E. | 8 | |
| 8584959559 | Which of the following was NOT one of the disasters that afflicted fourteenth and fifteenth century Europe? | Drought | 9 | |
| 8584959560 | In the high Middle Ages, many European Jews: | were successful traders | 10 | |
| 8584959561 | Which of the following occurred first? | Salah al-Din retakes Jerusalem | 11 | |
| 8584959562 | Leif Eriksson led the Vikings who established a temporary settlement in North America around | 1000 CE | 12 | |
| 8584959563 | The economies of north Italy and Flanders were dominated by which of the following? | textiles manufacturing | 13 | |
| 8596902262 | Which of the following was NOT among the emphases of early universities? | military history | 14 | |
| 8596902263 | Humanism is the belief that the proper study of man is man. | True | 15 | |
| 8596902264 | According to St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotelian logic undermined the teachings of the Church. | False | 16 | |
| 8596902265 | During the Renaissance, European artists began to utilize which of the following in their paintings? | Perspective | 17 | |
| 8596902266 | According to historians of the Church, the roots of the Renaissance can be found as early as: | the eleventh century | 18 | |
| 8596902267 | The Ciompi in Florence revolted and in 1378 demanded the right to unionize. | True | 19 | |
| 8596902268 | In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: | peasants who survived the plague often found their situation improved | 20 | |
| 8596902269 | The bubonic plague: | was spread primarily due to the activities of the Mongols | 21 | |
| 8596902270 | Masaccio's Trinity with the Virgin demonstrates the use of perspective in painting. | True | 22 | |
| 8596902271 | Florence is at the center of the Italian intellectual movement that ushered in the Renaissance | True | 23 | |
| 8650245332 | Which of the following is a Chinese invention utilized by Europeans to conquer countries and dominate trade routes. | Gunpowder | 24 | |
| 8650245333 | Which of the following controlled the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean in 1000 C.E. | Byzantine Empire | 25 | |
| 8650245334 | Which of the following explorers did NOT cross the Atlantic? | Dias | 26 | |
| 8650245335 | The contest for control of the Mediterranean was primarily the result of | competition for profit | 27 | |
| 8650245336 | The sea voyages of exploration and discovery: | included the first round-the-world voyage by Ferdinand Magellan in the first half of the sixteenth century | 28 | |
| 8650245337 | Which of the following explorers was the first to clearly recognize that Columbus had NOT discovered a route to Asia? | Amerigo Vespucci | 29 | |
| 8650245338 | Christopher Columbus initially sought support for his expedition from: | Portugal | 30 | |
| 8650245339 | Prince Henry the Navigator supported the study of navigation for all these reasons except: | he hoped to defeat the Muslim king of Arabia, Prester John | 31 | |
| 8650245340 | William of Normandy led the Vikings to conquer which country in 1066? | England | 32 | |
| 8650245341 | Which of the following explorers crossed the Isthmus of Panama and became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean? | Vasco Nuñez de Balboa | 33 |
