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50 Mulitple Choice Questions Flashcards

1
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Which city played a key role in the trade between Europe and the Near East?

A

Venice

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2
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Medieval Europe was a feudal society that had a(n) ______.

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Agricultural economy and was dominated by the church

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3
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Which city had uninterrupted trade with the Near East throughout the Middle Ages?

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Pisa

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4
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Which social category comprised Florence’s popolo grosso in the Renaissance?

A

Capitalists and bankers

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5
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What occurred in 1378 as a result of the unbearable conditions for those at the bottom of society and the disruption caused by the Black Death?

A

Chomping Revolt

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6
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Cosimo de’ Medici brought stability to which city after his rise to power in 1434?

A

Florence

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7
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The humanists were _____

A

Orators and poets

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8
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Who was known as the “father of humanism”?

A

Francesco Petrarch

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9
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What was the most important intellectual recovery made during the Italian Renaissance?

A

Greek Studies

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10
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The great masters o the High Renaissance were _______.

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Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo

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11
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Wh is considered the “father of Renaissance painting”?

A

Giotto

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12
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Whose most famous painting is the Mona Lisa?

A

Leonardo da Vinci

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13
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In 1500, the title “duke of Romagna” was given to _____.

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Cesare Borgia

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14
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The term “Machiavellian” has become synonymous with ______.

A

Ruthless political expediency

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15
Q

The Habsburg-Valois wars were fought between France and _____.

A

Spain

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16
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A new alliance between monarchs and ______ helped break the bonds of feudal society.

A

Townspeople

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17
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King Louis XI shared conquered Burgundian lands with _______.

A

Habsburg Emperor Maximillian I

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18
Q

Who sponsored Genoese adventurer Christopher Columbus?

A

Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain

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19
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One way in high the northern humanist Desiderius Erasmus gained fame as a religious reformer was by _______.

A

Editing the works of the Church Fathers

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20
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Humanism prepared the way for the Protestant reforms in which three countries?

A

England, France, and Germany

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21
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What English humanist wrote the famous book called Utopia?

A

Thomas More

22
Q

Columbus thought his first landfall was _____.

A

japan

23
Q

By the time of the Spanish conquest, the Aztecs ruled almost of ______.

A

Central Mexico

24
Q

_______ was by far the most effective and outspoken critic of the Spanish conquerors.

A

Barolomé de Las Casas

25
Q

The ______ of the West Indies and Brazil became the major center for black slavery in the mid-sixteenth century.

A

Sugar plantations

26
Q

Endemic warfare between the pope and the Holy Roman Emperor _______.

A

Assisted the growth of Italian city-states

27
Q

Social strife and competition for political power became so intense within the cities that most evolved into _______.

A

Despotisms

28
Q

The _____ greatly helped reduce the need too go to war and allowed increased control over the enemy.

A

Art of diplomacy

29
Q

Along with his rigorous teachings of ancient languages, humanist Vittorino da Feltre included _______ as part of his daily educational instructions.

A

Physical exercise and games

30
Q

How did Valla become a hero to Protestant reformers?

A

His defense of predestination against the advocate of free will

31
Q

Which of the following ideas was held to be true in both Renaissance Italy and in Reformation Europe?

A

The interests of laity are no longer subordinate to clergy

32
Q

Medieval art tended to be abstract and formulaic, whereas Renaissance art showed______.

A

The natural world and human emotions

33
Q

A style of art called “mannerism” allowed the artist to include _________ in his or her work.

A

The strange and the abnormal

34
Q

What did the political alliance known as the Treaty of Lodi accomplish?

A

Brough Milan and Naples into an alliance with Florence.

35
Q

How did the Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola convince the Florentines to allow King Charles VIII of France to enter Florence without resistance?

A

He told them that the king’s arrival was divine vengeance on their immorality

36
Q

What caused the Florentines to finally execute Savonarola in 1498?

A

They tired of his puritanical tyranny

37
Q

What did Pope Alexander VI hope to gain by securing a friendship with the French king?

A

Control over regions in Italy

38
Q

Which of the following expresses a viewpoint held by Machiavelli?

A

Italian political unity and independence were ends that justified any means.

39
Q

The primary reason monarchs sought out new sources of income in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was due to the _______.

A

growing cost of warfare

40
Q

The monarchy of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain was an example of the emergence of _______in the 1400s.

A

Despotism

41
Q

What caused the secure government of France created by Louis XI to become a defeated nation under his successors?

A

Bad foreign policy

42
Q

The Inquisition was a key national agency established in 1479 for the purpose of ________.

A

monitoring the activity of convertedJews and Muslims in Spain

43
Q

During an assembly in Worms in 1495, Emperor Maximilian allowed the members to create ________.

A

a Supreme Court of Justice

44
Q

The Brothers of the Common Life, an influential lay religious movement, eliminated what requirements from the religious life of men and women?

A

Vows of covertly, chastity, and obedience

45
Q

Who was a close friend of Erasmus?

A

Thomas More

46
Q

Why did German humanists rush to Reuchlin’s defense when Pfefferkorn attacked Reuchlin for being a Jew?

A

To promote academic freedom and good scholarship

47
Q

The Portuguese exploration of the African coast started out as a search for gold and slaves, but by century’s end it had established ________.

A

a sea route around Africa to Asia’s spice market

48
Q

What was the primary reason Spanish explorers sailed the Atlantic Ocean?

A

To find a shorter route to the East Indies

49
Q

European voyages of discovery and conquest provided several profound biological impacts on Native Americans, including the _______.

A

spread of measles and smallpox

50
Q

What argument about Native Americans caused tension between the mendicant friars and Spanish conquerors?

A

The need to conquer Native Americans to convert them

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