WorksheetsUnit 2 Review
Total questions: 164
Worksheet time: 1hrs 22mins
What was the Catholic Churches' response to the Protestant Reformation?
The Counter-Reformation
Witch Trials
The Spanish Inquisition
The 30 Years War
Years ago historians like Max Weber firmly believed that the Protestant religion promoted _____?
Capitalism
Socialism
Anarchism
Marxism
This 18-year series of meetings was composed of high church officials to stop the momentum of the Protestant Reformation.
Council of Trent
The Treaty of Westphalia
The Diet of Worms
First Council of Nicaea
This had been established in the 13th century to stamp out heresies in southern France and Italy. But at the beginning of the Counter-Reformation targeted Protestants, and searched for heresy also among conquered people in the New World.
The Inquisition
The Translation Movement
The Reconquista
The Crusades
This is the belief that the blood and wine of the communion sacrament become the actual body and blood of Jesus.
Transubstantiation
Baptism
Iconoclasm
Catechism
What were some outcomes of the Council of Trent?
The Church upheld the centrality of the Seven Sacraments and the selling of indulgences
The Church established seminaries where priests could become more informed on Catholic theology.
The Church began the Papal Index, a list of books that Catholics were forbidden to read
The Church reached deeper into society when it began to further regulate marriages.
Which Spanish nobleman and former soldier would help fortify Catholicism in the Counter-Reformation?
Ignatius of Loyola
Francis Xavier
Bartolomé de las Casas
Matteo Ricci
What organization did Ignatius of Loyola found?
The Society of Jesus, or Jesuits
The Dominican Order
The Benedictines
The Franciscans
Which were qualities/achievements of the Jesuits?
They were organized like an army with a hierarchy of command.
They founded schools where humanistic education thrived alongside religious instruction.
They attempted to globalize their faith as a regular part of their mission.
They engaged in artistic patronage to rebrand the Catholic image.
Which of the following were areas of the world that the Jesuits reached through their missionary missions?
Japan
Africa
The New World
India
Which were some short and long-term accomplishments of Jesuit missionaries?
Convert souls.
They wanted to shape the way that young people learned, and thus their perspective via schools.
They developed cultural and linguistic connections with various people groups to spread Catholicism.
They created an information network that shared agricultural, industrial, and trade, secrets with Europe.
This nun began to live out the reform Church's re-dedication to faith and good works, being extremely strict in her practice. She was a proponent of self-flagellation ceremonies, self-flagellation being the act of hitting oneself with a whip in imitation of Christ's suffering at the cross
Saint Teresa of Ávila
Hildegard of Bingen
Christine de Pizan
Artemisia Gentileschi
Saint Teresa of Ávila became an inspiration, particularly after Church leaders had her write down her spiritual experiences in several books that have now become Counter-Reformation classics, such as?
Way of Perfection
The Book of Foundation
Pilgrim's Progress
Various collections of Catholic hymns
Which of the following describes the influence the Council of Trent had on art?
The church advocated for art that connected with ordinary people to produce awe and evoke the power and majesty of the divine.
The church advocated for simple, unadorned places of worship
The church advocated for more inclusive art from abroad to help engage a new global audience.
The church advocated for increased patronage to offset the loss of revenue from indulgences.
What art/architecture/music genre was occurring during the Catholic Counter reformation?
Baroque
Rococo
Romanticism
Surrealism
This notable female painter famously portrayed herself beheading her rapist in her version of the Biblical story of Judith Slays Holofernes.
Saint Teresa of Ávila
Hildegard of Bingen
Christine de Pizan
Artemisia Gentileschi
What had been the dominant form of Christianity in Europe since the 4th century?
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodox
Protestantism
Lutheranism
Which of the following are examples of the pivotal role a local parish priest had on a person's life around the time of the Protestant Reformation?
A local priest would baptize an individual.
A local priest would conduct weddings.
A local priest would hear confessions.
A local priest would provide social services & last rites.
What are some examples of the social services provided by the church around the time of the Protestant Reformation?
It distributed alms to the poor.
It ran orphanages.
It provided what education was avalable.
All of the above
Europeans would, in their lives, meet exactly one person who could read the Bible, which was only available in Latin: their parish (or local) (a)
Who is the central figure that started the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
Desiderius Erasmus
Jan Hus
John Wycliffe
Prior to becoming a monk, Martin Luther went to school to be a?
Lawyer
Doctor
Engineer
Architect
What event changed Martin Luther's perspective on the Catholic Church as a monk?
His diplomatic trip to Rome.
His getting caught in a lightning storm.
His getting caught by the Catholic church after printing his ideas.
His father's death.
Besides his chronic constipation, what was Martin Luther obsessed about?
His sinfulness
A desire to have a wife
Drinking beer
Reading the Bible.
Which are Martin Luther's three solas or onlys
Sola Scriptura (scripture)
Sola Gratia (Grace)
Sola Fide (Faith)
Sola libertas (Freedom)
So Martin Luther's new interpretation of sola fide grew into a full scale conflict with the Catholic church, when a friar named Johann Tetzel came to Wittenberg selling?
indulgences
Bibles
salvation
Eucharists
What did Luther post or mail as a protest against the abuses of the Catholic Church?
95 theses
99 theses
10 Commandments
3rd Day Message
After posting or mailing his 95 Theses Luther's claims became increasingly radical against the Catholic church eventually claiming?
Christians were saved only through faith and the grace of God not by the Church.
The church's rituals didn't have the power to save souls
The church and the Pope made errors all the time
The priesthood was a human invention and that individual Christians didn't even need priests to receive the grace of God.
In 1521, Luther was called to defend his ideas before the Holy Roman Emperor _______?
Charles V
Phillip II
Charlemagne
Otto I
Luther famously defended his ideas in front of Charles V at the imperial
Diet of Worms
Council of Nicaea
Council of Trent
Great Commission
What was one reason that Luther's ideas had spread so much and became popular?
The printing press allowed his ideas to spread widely.
Luther was a very good public speaker.
Luther enjoyed visiting local taverns and made friends was common folks.
Updates of Luther's trial was spread via weekly Sunday sermons.
What was Luther's most revolutionary publication?
The translation of the Bible into German
His 95 Theses
His written response at the Diet of Worms
His autobiography
Martin Luther believed in a "Priesthood of all believers" that if everyone had access to the original text of the Bible they would all come to the same conclusions he did. Did this happen?
Yes, and Lutheranism was born
No, it led to the creation of various denominations.
Which of the following are examples of spin-offs based on Luther's ideas?
Zwinglians
Calvinists
Anabaptists
Anglicans
This denomination was heavily persecuted during the reformation period frequently this led to their disemboweling.
Methodists
Quakers
Anabaptists
Puritans
The increasingly radical interpretation of Luther's basic ideas led to which of the following?
People, especially young people, smashed up churches because the Bible says 'no graven images'.
The 1552 German Peasant Revolt
The resignation of the Pope
The execution of nobles across Europe
Whom did Luther side with during the German Peasant Revolt?
The Peasants
The Nobles
Which noble mentioned in this episode was one of the first notables to side with Luther against the Church?
Grand Master Albert of the Teutonic order of monks
King Henry VIII of England
Francis I of France
Ivan IV of Russia
Which of the following are reasons why nobles would embrace Protestantism over Catholicism?
It allowed nobles to confiscate church lands and taxes.
It allowed nobles to behave how they wanted to.
It allowed nobles to better negotiate with the Pope.
It allowed nobles to remove the religious question from their realms.
Did the Protestant Reformation just become about political power?
No, individuals such as Thomas Moore were killed for their faith.
Yes, all human actions are ultimately about power and subjugation.
What were some of the short and long-term results of the Protestant Reformation?
It is argued that it eventually lead to religious toleration in Europe
It has been argued that it was the foundation of European capitalism.
It was an inspiration for the American Civil Rights movement.
All of the above
Renaissance saw the __________ of European culture
rebirth
continuation
end
beginning
The Renaissance occurred after what period in European history?
The Dark Ages
The Enlightenment
The Age of Exportation
The Age of Imperialism
The Middle Ages were "Dark" or saw limited learning and culture across the planet?
False
True
Which of the following best describes Renaissance art?
It focused on the idealized human form.
It idealized classical Greco-Roman art.
It focused on peoples true form.
It idealized Arab architecture.
The scholars who examined, translated, and commented upon Ancient & Arabic writings were called?
humanists
Ciompi
Monks
enlightened
Overall were the humanists writers and artists and scholars secretly not religious?
No
Yes
Humanist scholars studied what were called the humanities: literature, philosophy, history also known as the?
Liberal Arts
Core Studies
Nobles Studies
The Sciences
According to this episode of Crash Course the Renaissance occurred between
15th and 16th centuries-ish
13th and 14th centuries-ish
14 and 15th centuries-ish
16 - 17th centuries-ish
Where did the Renaissance begin?
Italy
The Netherlands
Germany
Constantinople
What reason does Crash Course give for Italy being primed for the Renaissance?
Money
It's social structure.
It's historical significance.
Population
Italy was full of these mini-industrial powerhouses which specialized in industrial products which grew wealth from trade?
Italian city states
Micronations
Megalopolises
Caliphates
This Italian city state was known for its cloth production and was home to the Medici family.
Florence
Milan
Venice
Genoa
Which Italian city state was the richest of them all due to its trade with Islamic Empires?
Venice
Milan
Florence
Genoa
The Venetians traded with what economic power in the region allowing them to become the wealthiest of the Italian city-states?
the Ottomans.
the Safavids.
the Mughals.
the Abbasids
What trade good did Venice make a large portion of its wealth from?
pepper
salt
chilis
tea
This wealthy Florentine family gained their wealth via banking and a monopoly on mining alum allowing them to be one of the primary patrons of the Renaissance.
Medicis
Hapsburgs
Bourbons
Borgia
The fall of what city in 1453 to the Ottomans shifted the balance of trade in the Mediterranean?
Constantinople
Venice
Damascus
Rome
Which scientific figure was mentioned in today's episode that may have used an Arib text to assist him in his proofs of a heliocentric solar system?
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Aristotle
Galileo
What arguments did John make that the Renaissance did not happen?
The problem of time. It occurred over hundreds of years.
Most people in Europe were totally unaware of the Renaissance, because it's art and learning affected a tiny sliver of the European population.
Life expectancy in many areas of Europe actually went down during the Renaissance.
We have constructed the Renaissance as important to fit a narrative that Europe was enlightened, and then it was unenlightened, and then it was re-enlightened.
What innovation shaped and promoted the ideas of the Renaissance?
Movable type printing.
Trade with the Americans.
Trade with the Ottomans.
The Protestant Reformation
Who is often given credit for the innovation of moveable type printing?
Johannes Gutenburg
Desiderius Erasmus
Sir Thomas More
Martin Luther
Though Gutenberg is often given credit for moveable type printing where did printing techniques first appear?
China
Korea
Japan
Mongolia
Why did printing catch on faster in Europe as compared to China?
The Latin alphabet only had 26 letters.
Innovations made it easier to eject and reset letters to form words.
Europeans had a great capacity for written works.
Christianity was a religion of the book.
Before Gutenburg's innovation of moveable type the majority of written works were
reproduced by hand.
maintained by oral traditions.
maintained by a vibrant musical culture.
reproduced by woodcuts.
Why didn't the majority of Europeans read at the beginning of the Renaissance?
They couldn't read.
They didn't have anything to read.
They were morally opposed to reading.
Individuals didn't have to read to do their jobs in agriculture.
Which of the following are examples of texts printed and read with the innovation of movable type?
The great works from the classical world.
Legal works
The Bible
All of the above
What is the name of this Northern Renaissance painting by Pieter Breughel which has scruffy royal villagers acting out ridiculous common wisdom.
Dutch Proverbs
Arnolfini Portrait
Ghent Altarpiece
The Garden of Earthly Delights
This was the idea that all social and political order stemmed from the exercise of the father's authority over the family unit.
Paterfamilias
Autarky
Supremacy
Absolutism
In both north and south, some humanists began regularly teaching what? Which involved the study of ancient Latin and Greek.
Rhetoric
Philosophy
Mathematics
Ethics
The instruction of rhetoric may not seem like a big deal but it would eventually contribute to the re-thinking of what certain texts actually said, perhaps most notably the?
Bible
Aristotle
Plato's Republic
Magna Carta
This individual became the commanding figure in the Northern Renaissance movement. He is also known as "Prince of the Humanist".
Desiderius Erasmus
King Henry VIII
Niccolo Machiavelli
Thomas More
Erasmus contributed to taking humanism along its twisted path from ideas of the study of humans and the active life into?
Politics
Religion
Society
Ethics
Which of the following would best apply to Erasmus?
He advocated for a middle road between the pagan ancients and the more recent Christian thinkers.
He also emphasized the importance of reading the Bible and the leading Christian authors
He was at times also very critical of the Catholic church.
He agreed with much of Martin Luther's teachings but remained loyal to the Catholic Church
Erasmus was a prolific writer and central figure in the international community of humanists in Europe known as?
The Republic of Letters
The Firm League of Friendship
The Humanist Guild
The Masons
This Renaissance thinker shaped what we would now call political science with his "realist" view of politics.
Niccolo Machiavelli
King Henry VIII
Desiderius Erasmus
Thomas More
Machiavelli's "realist" view of politics is best summed up by the quote "One should wish to be both, but because it is difficult to united them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved." in which of one of his books?
The Prince
Art of War
Utopia
City of Ladies
This English Renaissance humanist believed that humanistic analysis could lead to widespread peace and prosperity.
Thomas More
Christine de Pizan
Niccolo Machiavelli
Desiderius Erasmus
What was St. Thomas More's odd book that envisioned his ideal society?
Utopia
Art of War
The Prince
City of Ladies
Another book that imagined an ideal city-state written by Christine de Pizan was?
Book of the City of Ladies
Art of War
The Prince
What was the result of the declining European Population due to disease and war in the 14th century?
Labor had become much more valuable, which shifted long-held beliefs about how society should be organized.
Labor had become much less valuable, which strengthened long-held beliefs about how society should be organized.
Wide scale migration to the New World.
An increased need for exploration to find additional labor from the African subcontinent.
This Florentine author lamented “Living.... I despise what melancholy fate/ has brought us wretches in these evil years.”
Petrarch
Plato
Cicero
Leonardo Bruni
Which of the following is the best definition for the Renaissance?
The revival or renewal, hearkened back to what was seen as the bright light of classical antiquity, which had then been obscured in the dark and ignorant Middle Ages.
The period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West
A series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
An intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th to 19th century.
Which of the following Roman writers influenced the writers of the Renaissance?
Cicero
Tacitus
Quintilian
All of the above
What new area of study emerged during the Renaissance that was more interested in worldly and human concerns?
Humanism
Scholasticism
Classism
Philosophy
The Humanities involve the study of the three liberal arts of
Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic
Mathematics
The "sciences" from the Renaissance included?
Theology
Philosophy
Laws
Medicine
The study of the humanities as developed by the ancients focused not on the heavens or saints but on human speech or rhetoric, human logic, and the correct use of language. And by language, of course, they mostly meant?
Latin
Greek
Italian
Hebrew
Urban merchants and manufacturers built a brisk business that brought in products and ideas from around Afroeurasia. And some families achieved immense wealth, which allowed them to support the world of Renaissance thinkers and artists in a system called?
Patronage
Serfdom
Nepotism
Philanthropy
What family was possibly the greatest patron of the Italian Renaissance?
The Medici
The Sforza
The Montague
The Capulet
What organizations supported Renaissance Art?
Banking institutions
The Roman Catholic Church
City Governments
All of the above
Neoclassical statues take their inspiration from classical statues which were white?
True
False
Why did banks, city leaders, and individuals sponsor Renaissance art?
status
recognition
love of beauty
patronage legitimized the wealth of families.
All of the above
How did Renaissance art illustrate the paradoxes of the Renaissance?
Paganism was combined with Christianity in art.
Profit-oriented bankers financed the Church, which was run by priests who’d taken a vow of poverty, and founded by a figure who in the gospels overturns the tables of moneylenders in the temple
The church became incredibly corrupt with widespread nepotism.
Many paintings actually featured little humanity.
Which city was arguably the headquarters of the Renaissance?
Florence
Vatican City
Milan
Venice
Which to Renaissance artist were highlighted in the thought bubble for their focused on human dignity and realistic details?
Sandro Botticelli
Michelangelo
Rafael
Leonardo da Vinci
Across the spectrum of Renaissance art, anatomical accuracy flourished, which you can see in Michelangelo’s sculptures and also in the work of fellow Florentine Leonardo da Vinci-- both artists, incidentally, were able to render the human form in part because
they both dissected cadavers.
they were tremendous athletes.
they both had many lovers.
they both practiced medicine.
Florence was the center of the Renaissance experiencing economic prosperity and a cultural revival. However was everything perfect during this time?
Yes
No
The council that ran Florences was known as the
Signoria
Small Council
Charmed circle
The Paulette
Florence was home to what the author, general, and political theorist?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Cosimo Medici
Lorenzo de Medici
Isabella d’Este
Machiavelli argued that the Florentine Renaissance’s Golden Age ended with
death of Lorenzo de Medici in 1492.
Columbus discovering America in 1492.
The invasion of "barbarians".
The invasion of the Ottomans.
Did the average person living in the Renaissance see a big change in their lives due to the Renaissance?
No
Yes
In general men discounted women’s intellectual worth during the Renaissance?
True
False
The Renaissance saw the revival of the Roman idea that the father is the center of every family, and also the center of power?
Paterfamilias
Godfather
De facto
Mea culpa
What was the result of the declining European Population due to disease and war in the 14th century?
Labor had become much more valuable, which shifted long-held beliefs about how society should be organized.
Labor had become much less valuable, which strengthened long-held beliefs about how society should be organized.
Wide scale migration to the New World.
An increased need for exploration to find additional labor from the African subcontinent.
This Florentine author lamented “Living.... I despise what melancholy fate/ has brought us wretches in these evil years.”
Petrarch
Plato
Cicero
Leonardo Bruni
Which of the following is the best definition for the Renaissance?
The revival or renewal, hearkened back to what was seen as the bright light of classical antiquity, which had then been obscured in the dark and ignorant Middle Ages.
The period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West
A series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
An intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th to 19th century.
Which of the following Roman writers influenced the writers of the Renaissance?
Cicero
Tacitus
Quintilian
All of the above
What new area of study emerged during the Renaissance that was more interested in worldly and human concerns?
Humanism
Scholasticism
Classism
Philosophy
The Humanities involve the study of the three liberal arts of
Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic
Mathematics
The "sciences" from the Renaissance included?
Theology
Philosophy
Laws
Medicine
The study of the humanities as developed by the ancients focused not on the heavens or saints but on human speech or rhetoric, human logic, and the correct use of language. And by language, of course, they mostly meant?
Latin
Greek
Italian
Hebrew
Urban merchants and manufacturers built a brisk business that brought in products and ideas from around Afroeurasia. And some families achieved immense wealth, which allowed them to support the world of Renaissance thinkers and artists in a system called?
Patronage
Serfdom
Nepotism
Philanthropy
What family was possibly the greatest patron of the Italian Renaissance?
The Medici
The Sforza
The Montague
The Capulet
What organizations supported Renaissance Art?
Banking institutions
The Roman Catholic Church
City Governments
All of the above
Neoclassical statues take their inspiration from classical statues which were white?
True
False
Why did banks, city leaders, and individuals sponsor Renaissance art?
status
recognition
love of beauty
patronage legitimized the wealth of families.
All of the above
How did Renaissance art illustrate the paradoxes of the Renaissance?
Paganism was combined with Christianity in art.
Profit-oriented bankers financed the Church, which was run by priests who’d taken a vow of poverty, and founded by a figure who in the gospels overturns the tables of moneylenders in the temple
The church became incredibly corrupt with widespread nepotism.
Many paintings actually featured little humanity.
Which city was arguably the headquarters of the Renaissance?
Florence
Vatican City
Milan
Venice
Which to Renaissance artist were highlighted in the thought bubble for their focused on human dignity and realistic details?
Sandro Botticelli
Michelangelo
Rafael
Leonardo da Vinci
Across the spectrum of Renaissance art, anatomical accuracy flourished, which you can see in Michelangelo’s sculptures and also in the work of fellow Florentine Leonardo da Vinci-- both artists, incidentally, were able to render the human form in part because
they both dissected cadavers.
they were tremendous athletes.
they both had many lovers.
they both practiced medicine.
Florence was the center of the Renaissance experiencing economic prosperity and a cultural revival. However was everything perfect during this time?
Yes
No
The council that ran Florences was known as the
Signoria
Small Council
Charmed circle
The Paulette
Florence was home to what the author, general, and political theorist?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Cosimo Medici
Lorenzo de Medici
Isabella d’Este
Machiavelli argued that the Florentine Renaissance’s Golden Age ended with
death of Lorenzo de Medici in 1492.
Columbus discovering America in 1492.
The invasion of "barbarians".
The invasion of the Ottomans.
Did the average person living in the Renaissance see a big change in their lives due to the Renaissance?
No
Yes
In general men discounted women’s intellectual worth during the Renaissance?
True
False
What innovation shaped and promoted the ideas of the Renaissance?
Movable type printing.
Trade with the Americans.
Trade with the Ottomans.
The Protestant Reformation
Who is often given credit for the innovation of moveable type printing?
Johannes Gutenburg
Desiderius Erasmus
Sir Thomas More
Martin Luther
Though Gutenberg is often given credit for moveable type printing where did printing techniques first appear?
China
Korea
Japan
Mongolia
Why did printing catch on faster in Europe as compared to China?
The Latin alphabet only had 26 letters.
Innovations made it easier to eject and reset letters to form words.
Europeans had a great capacity for written works.
Christianity was a religion of the book.
Before Gutenburg's innovation of moveable type the majority of written works were
reproduced by hand.
maintained by oral traditions.
maintained by a vibrant musical culture.
reproduced by woodcuts.
Why didn't the majority of Europeans read at the beginning of the Renaissance?
They couldn't read.
They didn't have anything to read.
They were morally opposed to reading.
Individuals didn't have to read to do their jobs in agriculture.
Which of the following are examples of texts printed and read with the innovation of movable type?
The great works from the classical world.
Legal works
The Bible
All of the above
What is the name of this Northern Renaissance painting by Pieter Breughel which has scruffy royal villagers acting out ridiculous common wisdom.
Dutch Proverbs
Arnolfini Portrait
Ghent Altarpiece
The Garden of Earthly Delights
In both north and south, some humanists began regularly teaching what? Which involved the study of ancient Latin and Greek.
Rhetoric
Philosophy
Mathematics
Ethics
The instruction of rhetoric may not seem like a big deal but it would eventually contribute to the re-thinking of what certain texts actually said, perhaps most notably the?
Bible
Aristotle
Plato's Republic
Magna Carta
This individual became the commanding figure in the Northern Renaissance movement. He is also known as "Prince of the Humanist".
Desiderius Erasmus
King Henry VIII
Niccolo Machiavelli
Thomas More
Erasmus contributed to taking humanism along its twisted path from ideas of the study of humans and the active life into?
Politics
Religion
Society
Ethics
Which of the following would best apply to Erasmus?
He advocated for a middle road between the pagan ancients and the more recent Christian thinkers.
He also emphasized the importance of reading the Bible and the leading Christian authors
He was at times also very critical of the Catholic church.
He agreed with much of Martin Luther's teachings but remained loyal to the Catholic Church
This Renaissance thinker shaped what we would now call political science with his "realist" view of politics.
Niccolo Machiavelli
King Henry VIII
Desiderius Erasmus
Thomas More
Machiavelli's "realist" view of politics is best summed up by the quote "One should wish to be both, but because it is difficult to united them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved." in which of one of his books?
The Prince
Art of War
Utopia
City of Ladies
This English Renaissance humanist believed that humanistic analysis could lead to widespread peace and prosperity.
Thomas More
Christine de Pizan
Niccolo Machiavelli
Desiderius Erasmus
What was St. Thomas More's odd book that envisioned his ideal society?
Utopia
Art of War
The Prince
City of Ladies
Another book that imagined an ideal city-state written by Christine de Pizan was?
Book of the City of Ladies
Art of War
The Prince
Book of the City of Ladies
Renaissance saw the __________ of European culture
rebirth
continuation
end
beginning
The Renaissance occurred after what period in European history?
The Dark Ages
The Enlightenment
The Age of Exportation
The Age of Imperialism
The Middle Ages were "Dark" or saw limited learning and culture across the planet?
False
True
Which of the following best describes Renaissance art?
It focused on the idealized human form.
It idealized classical Greco-Roman art.
It focused on peoples true form.
It idealized Arab architecture.
The scholars who examined, translated, and commented upon Ancient & Arabic writings were called?
humanists
Ciompi
Monks
enlightened
Overall were the humanists writers and artists and scholars secretly not religious?
No
Yes
Humanist scholars studied what were called the humanities: literature, philosophy, history also known as the?
Liberal Arts
Core Studies
Nobles Studies
The Sciences
According to this episode of Crash Course the Renaissance occurred between
15th and 16th centuries-ish
13th and 14th centuries-ish
14 and 15th centuries-ish
16 - 17th centuries-ish
Where did the Renaissance begin?
Italy
The Netherlands
Germany
Constantinople
What reason does Crash Course give for Italy being primed for the Renaissance?
Money
It's social structure.
It's historical significance.
Population
Italy was full of these mini-industrial powerhouses which specialized in industrial products which grew wealth from trade?
Italian city states
Micronations
Megalopolises
Caliphates
This Italian city state was known for its cloth production and was home to the Medici family.
Florence
Milan
Venice
Genoa
Which Italian city state was the richest of them all due to its trade with Islamic Empires?
Venice
Milan
Florence
Genoa
The Venetians traded with what economic power in the region allowing them to become the wealthiest of the Italian city-states?
the Ottomans.
the Safavids.
the Mughals.
the Abbasids
What trade good did Venice make a large portion of its wealth from?
pepper
salt
chilis
tea
This wealthy Florentine family gained their wealth via banking and a monopoly on mining alum allowing them to be one of the primary patrons of the Renaissance.
Medicis
Hapsburgs
Bourbons
Borgia
The fall of what city in 1453 to the Ottomans shifted the balance of trade in the Mediterranean?
Constantinople
Venice
Damascus
Rome
Which scientific figure was mentioned in today's episode that may have used an Arib text to assist him in his proofs of a heliocentric solar system?
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Aristotle
Galileo
What arguments did John make that the Renaissance did not happen?
The problem of time. It occurred over hundreds of years.
Most people in Europe were totally unaware of the Renaissance, because it's art and learning affected a tiny sliver of the European population.
Life expectancy in many areas of Europe actually went down during the Renaissance.
We have constructed the Renaissance as important to fit a narrative that Europe was enlightened, and then it was unenlightened, and then it was re-enlightened.
