AP EURO Renaissance Vocabulary Check In

The Renaissance was able to begin in Italy primarily because of

• the dominance of the Catholic Church in Italy
• strong alliances between Italian city-states
• Italy's strong sense of nationalism
• wealth created from Italy's extensive trade network

What do Petrarch and Pico della Mirandola share in common?

• Italian humanists promoting a revival of classical themes
• Christian humanists who tried to reform the church
• Artists who employed naturalism and geometric perspective
• Wealthy elite who patroned and commissioned great works of art

Niccolo Machiavelli is representative of individuals who

• received financial support from the Church for their scholarship.
• attempted to reform the Church through the Italian Renaissance.
• promoted secular models for individual and political behavior.
• articulated new theories of inductive and deductive reasoning.

Which of the following was a major factor in the spread of humanist culture in late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?

• The creation of new religious orders by the papacy
• A major increase in government funding for elementary education
• The development of the printing press
• The sale of basic textbooks written in the vernacular

Renaissance humanism is primarily defined as

• an antireligious program dedicated to the destruction of the Church

• a curriculum based on the study of the classics, rhetoric, and history

• an artistic style that portrayed the depraved state of human beings

• a religious movement that attempted to make Christianity relevant to daily experience

What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

• Renewed
• Rebuilt
• Remade
• Rebirth

Which of the following statements BEST describes how wealth was distributed during the Renaissance?

• Everyone had the same amount of wealth.
• A few families had most of the wealth.
• Nobody had any wealth because the economy was doing so poorly.
• Many poor people took the wealth from the wealthy in a violent battle.

Which of the following statements best summarizes the Renaissance

• A Era Characterized by Religious Conformity

• A period of Scientific Regression

• A period of Cultural and Intellectual Rebirth

• A time of Political Upheaval and Social Unrest

An event that took place in modern day Istanbul in which the Ottoman Empire defeated Christian forces. This allowed for the Ottoman Empire to advance into Eastern Europe, leading to many Greek individuals to flee their homes. Those fleeing, especially to Italy, took many ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts, adding to the intellectual movement of the time.

• The Battle of Thermopylae
• The Battle of Marathon
• The Fall of Constantinople
• The Siege of Jerusalem

The use of strong contrasts of light and dark in painting. An artist would use this contrast to accentuate certain aspects of a work of art, especially in an attempt to bring the piece to life emotionally and/or in a 3D fashion.

• Impressionism
• Cubism
• Chiaroscuro
• Surrealism