Western Civilization - Chapter 12 Flashcards
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| 8273415738 | A key assistant and partner to Cortés in his assault on the Aztecs was: | La Malinche | 0 | |
| 8273419294 | According to Machiavelli, the ideal form of government was: | A republic modeled on the Roman example. | 1 | |
| 8273427742 | After confederating their kingdoms through marriage, Ferdinand and Isabella devoted their energies to: | Creating one of Europe's most powerful armies | 2 | |
| 8273432359 | Although 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 | |
| 8273437239 | Beginning in the 1440s, design changes in Portuguese caravels allowed them to: | Sail with two masts and triangular sails, which required fewer sailors. | 4 | |
| 8273442207 | During the Renaissance, sculpture broke with the recent past in that statuary: | Depicted freestanding figures "in the round." | 5 | |
| 8273448851 | Having succeeded in conquering Granada, through her sponsorship of Columbus's voyages, Isabella conceptually: | Helped export the tradition of conquest to the New World. | 6 | |
| 8273453815 | In Spain, the Reconquista effectively ended Muslim rulers' policy of: | Convivencia. | 7 | |
| 8273459251 | In 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 | |
| 8273466301 | In the Renaissance, artists mastered: | The technique of vanishing perspective. | 9 | |
| 8273472279 | Leonardo da Vinci's skills included all of the following except: | Poetry. | 10 | |
| 8273477581 | Machiavelli felt that Cesare Borgia: | Might help make Italy fit for self-governance again. | 11 | |
| 8273482210 | Marsilio Ficino taught the neoplatonic idea that: | One should strive to free one's immortal soul from mortal bodies. | 12 | |
| 8273488295 | Michelangelo's greatest achievement as a painter was the: | Sistine Chapel. | 13 | |
| 8273493705 | One 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 | |
| 8273499124 | One 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 | |
| 8273505960 | Prince 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 | |
| 8273511709 | The 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 | |
| 8273517387 | The first northern artist to master the Renaissance techniques of proportion and perspective was: | Albrecht Dürer. | 18 | |
| 8273523187 | The increasing use of artillery after 1400 resulted in: | Walls and castles becoming obsolete as defensive structures. | 19 | |
| 8273530592 | The industry that most fundamentally shaped the sixteenth-century Spanish colonies in Central and South America was: | Mining. | 20 | |
| 8273539600 | The 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 | |
| 8273546166 | The leader of the first European expedition to reach Asia by sailing west was: | Ferdinand Magellan. | 22 | |
| 8273551426 | To 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 | |
| 8273558003 | What happened within a generation of Columbus's first voyage? | European diseases had spread widely in the Caribbean and along the American coastlines. | 24 |
