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WorksheetsAP Euro Unit 1A Renaissance
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
In which book of the New Testament can you read about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
Book of Luke
Book of Revelations
Book of Mark
Corinthians
In which century is the Renaissance considered to have started?
14th century
13th century
16th century
15th century
In which Italian city is the Renaissance thought to have first flourished?
Venice
Padua
Rome
Florence
From which profession did the first patrons of the Renaissance artists originate?
Clergy
Law
Banking
Politics
What do we call the movement of free men who sought political and economic independence from nobles in the northern Italian cities?
secularists
libertarians
reformers
communes
Who resented the power of the communes, which were led by rich merchant families?
the farmers
the common people
the Church
the army
Who did the merchant oligarchies rely on to defend their rule over the common republicans?
the King of France
the Pope
mercenaries
the army
What name was given to the ruler of a commune in northern Italian cities?
signori
fratterni
il Duce
carbonari
Which city did NOT dominate the Italian peninsula in the 15th century?
Venice
Florence
Milan
Genoa
Papal States
What family ruled Milan harshly in the 15th century?
Sforza
Medici
Borgia
Mazzini
Which banking family ruled Florence n the 15th century?
Sforza
Medici
Borgia
Mazzini
Which post was created to maintain a semblance of a balance of power throughout the Italian peninsula in the 15th century?
prime minister
supreme court lawyer
police chief
ambassador
Which French king invaded Italy in 1494?
Louis VII
Francis III
Charles VIII
Leo IX
What do we call the wars fought by France against the Holy Roman Empire in the early sixteenth century?
Habsburg-Valois
Bismarck-Aquitaine
Hohenzollern-Angevin
Schmidt-Amboise
Which Holy Roman Emperor sacked Rome in 1527?
Charles IV
Charles V
Charles Martel
Charles de Gaulle
Which Italian poet claimed that the Germanic invasions had brought on a Dark Age breaking the link with the Classical Roman past?
Castiglione
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Dante
Petrarch
Which best describes humanism?
a focus on the power of the Church and its influence on ordinary people
an emphasis in the achievements, interests and capabilities of human beings
a movement to promote the rising merchant oligarchies against the local nobility
the rejection of the individual and the striving for a collective experience
Which area did humanism strive to promote?
Education
Absolute monarchy
Church teachings
Sport
Which group of the population did humanists argue didn't require education?
slaves
women
farmers
soldiers
What name is given to the political treatise written by Niccolo Machiavelli in 1513?
The Slave
The Republic
The King
The Prince
On which leader did Machiavelli base his political writings?
Gian Gastone
Cosimo de Medici
Cesare Borgia
Massimilliano Sforza
Which aspect of the Renaissance did Machiavelli tend to promote in his writings?
secularism
republicanism
nationalism
theism
What was the title of Boccaccio's tale of ambitious merchants, lecherous friars and cuckolded husbands?
The Prince
On the false donation of Constantine
The Decameron
The Inferno
What were Christian humanists interested in promoting?
The primacy of the Roman Church over other Christian denominations including Greek Orthodoxy
A return to monasticism and cutting yourself off from all worldly temptations.
Stronger criticism of the Pope's role in the Church and his influence over northern European countries
An ethical way of life based on the classical characteristics of calmness, patience and open-mindedness
Which book written by Thomas More envisioned a society that would encourage the inherent goodness of human nature.
Heaven
The Being
Utopia
Innate joy
Which Dutch humanist write a satire of worldly wisdom and a plea for the simple and spontaneous Christian faith of children?
Bruegel
Spinoza
Erasmus
Klompa
In which German city did Johannes Gutenberg contruct his printing press?
Mainz
Cologne
Frankfurt
Nuremberg
