AP Euro Chapter 12 Flashcards

10842585551	The Italian Renaissance was primarily	a recovery or rebirth of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture	0
10842585552	The word "Renaissance" means	rebirth	1
10842585553	The wealth of the norther Italian cities that funded the Renaissance was gained mostly from	trade	2
10842585554	According to Jacob Burkhardt, the Renaissance in Italy represented	a distinct break form the Middle Ages and the true birth of the modern world	3
10842585555	The family of merchants and bankers who dominated Florence during the high point of the Renaissance was	Medici	4
10842585556	What was the commercial and military league set up off the north coast of Germany?	Hansestic League	5
10842585557	Two key areas of Renaissance technological innovations were	mining and metalworking, including manufacture of firearms	6
10842585558	The author of the Book of Courtier, a handbook on courtly manners, was	Baldassare Casstiglione	7
10842585559	Castiglione's The Courtier was a	very popular handbook laying out the new skills in politics, the arts, and personal comportment expected of Renaissance aristocrats	8
10842585560	the achievements of the Italian Renaissance were the products of	an elite movement, involving small numbers of wealthy patrons. artists and intellectuals	9
10842585561	The aristocracy of the sixteenth century was	to dominate society as it had done in the Middle Ages	10
10842585562	Banquets during the Renaissance	were used to express wealth and power of a aristocratic family	11
10842585563	The Third Estate of the fifteenth century was	overwhelmingly made up of peasants	12
10842585564	Western Europe in the Renaissance saw	a decline in serfdom	13
10842585565	Slavery in Renaissance Italy	saw slaves from Africa and the eastern Mediterranean used mostly as courtly domestic servant and as skilled workers	14
10842585566	The reintroduction of slavery in the fourteenth century occurred largely as a result of	the shortage of workers created by the Black Death	15
10842585567	Which of the following statements best describes the marriage in Renaissance Italy?	Marriages were usually arranged, to strengthen familial alliances	16
10842585568	Marriages in Renaissance Italy	were an economic necessity of life involving complicated family negotiations	17
10842585569	By the fifteenth century, Italy was	dominated by five major regional independent powers	18
10842585570	Perhaps the most famous of Italian ruling woman was	Isabella d'Este	19
10842585571	Ferderigo da Montefeltro of Urbino was	an example of a skilled, intelligent, independent Italian warrior prince	20
10842585572	The Peace of Lodi served to	maintain peace between the Italian states for 40 years	21
10842585573	Machiavelli's The Prince advocated that a successful ruler must	Act without scruples for the good of the state.	22
10842585574	Italian Renaissance humanism in the early fifteenth century, above all else	was based on the study of the Greco-Roman classics	23
10842585575	In the late fifteenth century, Italy became a battleground for the competing interests of	Spain and france	24
10842585576	Who said, "Christ is my God; Cicero is the prince of the language"	Petrarch	25
10842585577	The Corpus Hermeticum	contained writings on the occult as well as theological and philosophical speculations	26
10842585578	Pico della Mirandola's Oration in the Dignity of Man stated that humans	could be whatever they chose or willed	27
10842585579	A subject of particular interest to fifteenth-century humanists was	the greek language	28
10842585580	The liberal education taught by Vittorino de Feltre	contained as it's primary goal the creation of well-rounded, virtuous and ethical citizens	29
10842585581	In Concerning Character, Pietro Paolo Vergerio argued that liberal studies led to	true freedom	30
10842585582	Humanism' main effect on the writing of history was	the secularization of historiography and the explanation of change over time	31
10842585583	Johannes Guttenberg was a key developer of	the movable type printing press	32
10842585584	The development of printing in the fifteenth century	ensured that literacy and new knowledge would spread rapidly in European society	33
10842585585	Italian artists in the fifteenth century began to	experiment in areas of perspective	34
10842585586	Which pair of artists both sculpted a likeness of David	Donatello and Michelangelo	35
10842585587	The Renaissance figure in the following list who was NOT a leading painter was a) Raphael b) Michelangelo c) Petrarch d) Leonardo e) Botticelli	c) Petrarch	36
10842585588	The painter of the Rome's Sistine Chapel ceiling was	Michelangleo	37
10842585589	Who painted "The Last Supper"?	Leonardo	38
10842585590	Which of the following is not true of Northern Renaissance artists?	they valued the secular human form as the primary subject of painting	39
10842585591	The "new monarchs" of the late fifteenth century in Europe	were focused upon the acquisition and expansion of power	40
10842585592	The result of the Hundreds' Year War: a) reinvigorated and strengthened the French monarchy b) caused economic turmoil in England c) temporarily strengthened the nobility in England d) a and b e) all of the above	d) a and b reinvigorated and strengthened the French monarchy & caused economic turmoil in England	41
10842585593	Under Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain	saw Muslim power vanish from the peninsula	42
10842585594	All of the following monarchs were successful in continuing the centralization of their "new monarchies" except a) Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire b) Henry VII of England c) Ferdinand of Aragon in Spain d) Louis XI the Spider of France e) Isabella of Castile	a) Maximilian I of the a Holy Roman Empire	43
10842585595	After 1438, the position of the Holy Roman Emperor remained in the hands of the	Habsburg dynasty	44
10842585596	The Byzantine Empire was finally destroyed in 1453 by the	Ottoman Turks	45
10842585597	The Ottoman Turkish sultan who captured Constantinople in 1453 was	Mehmet II	46
10842585598	John Wycliffe criticized the Church for	not letting people read the Bible in the vernacular	47
10842585599	The Renaissance popes did all of the following except:	attempt to return to the papacy to more humble times	48
10842585600	The Renaissance papacy	was often seen as corrupt and debauched, as evidence of Alexander VI	49