Renaissance

Which demonstrates an economic effect of the Crusades?

• European supply of goods decreased

• Middle Eastern markets had fewer sales

• Trade encouraged the use of credit and banking

• Europe ceased to trade with other regions

Which became an important new economic institution introduced during the Crusades?

• Methods for accounting and bookkeeping emerged

• The use of credit was not allowed with merchants

• The Church ruled that usury was allowed

• Merchants used only coins to make purchases

Leading to the Renaissance, the collapse of which empire reignited interest in Greco-Roman culture?

• Aztec

• Gupta

• Byzantine

• Incan

Which is not true regarding the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice, and Genoa?

• Had access to trade routes

• Served as trading centers distributing goods

• Governed as republics

• Were not connected to Middle Eastern markets

Which of the following would have offered the advice shown to government officials on how to rule?

• Desiderius Erasmus

• Sir Thomas More

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Francesco Petrarch

Which of the following was the artist who created the portrait shown?

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Sir Thomas More

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Niccolo Machiavelli

Renaissance art and literature focused on –

• the Church and the Pope.

• individuals, worldly matters and Christianity.

• only the salvation of mankind.

• Medieval leaders.

The painter and sculptor of this work shown was also known for –

• The Last Supper

• David

• Triumph of Galatea

• Maddalena

People who studied Greek and Roman culture and celebrated the individual were called –

• humanists.

• scholars.

• consuls.

• patrons.

Which Northern Renaissance writer was known for The Praise of Folly?

• Sir Thomas More

• Desiderius Erasmus

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Francesco Petrarch