Renaissance Review

In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli was most concerned with-

• equality and justice for all

• the use of political power

• the expansion of church authority

• government regulation of the economy

Which of the following completes the cause and effect flow chart?

• Merchants benefit from trade and use their money to support artists

• Peasants revolt and use their power to defund museums

• Kings get rich from taxes and use their money to buy land in Portugal

• King Edward became wealthy and bought the Sistine Chapel

One major characteristic of the Renaissance period is that the-

• Catholic Church no longer had any influence in Europe

• Classical cultures of Greece and Rome were revived and imitated

• Manor became the center of economic activity

• Major language of the people became Latin

The artists shown above led a movement characterized by —

• the abstract depiction of human bodies

• the rejection of religious themes

• the use of single-point perspective

• the illumination of printed manuscripts

During the Renaissance, the role of the individual as well as the study of Latin and Greek classics, moral philosophy, and history were closely associated with-

• national self-determination

• predestination

• monasticism

• humanism

The Renaissance in western Europe was a period noted for-

• armed conflict over control of the Holy Land

• the rise of feudalism in the Mediterranean region

• the mass movement of peoples from urban to rural areas

• a shift from a spiritual focus to a more humanistic one

The development of the printing press led to-

• Increased literacy which led to a spread of ideas and knowledge

• Increased spread of disease which led to a decrease in population

• Decrease in the Christian faith which led to a rise of secularism

• Increase in the Islamic faith