Europe

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

The Renaissance is a period in European history, from the 14th to the 17th century, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history.

Question 2

Milan

Answer 2

A powerful city, particularly from the 13th to the 15th centuries, Milan is today a leading financial and commercial center. Italian name Milano.

Question 3

Venice

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a city in northeastern Italy, on a lagoon of the Adriatic Sea, capital of Venetia region; pop. 270,098 (2008).

Question 4

Florence

Answer 4

Florence was a leading center of the Italian Renaissance, especially under the rule of the Medici family during the 15th century. Italian name Firenze.

Question 5

Rome

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Rome was made capital of a unified Italy in 1871. Italian name Roma.

Question 6

Medici Family

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was an outstanding patron of learning and the arts, whose clients included Michelangelo and Botticelli.

Question 7

humanism

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Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence

Question 8

Machiavelli

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Machiavellianism is “the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct”.

Question 9

Perspective

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the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point

Question 10

Gutenberg

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Johannes ca 1390–1468 Ger. inventor of printing from movable type.

Question 11

Erasmus

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was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.

Question 12

William Shakespeare

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was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.

Question 13

Sin Thomas More

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was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist.

Question 14

Flemish

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the Dutch language as spoken in Flanders, one of the two official languages of Belgium.

Question 15

Michelangelo

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was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Question 16

John Van Eyck

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was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and one of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15th century.

Question 17

Albert Durer

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was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.

Question 18

Fresco

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a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.

Question 19

Indulgences

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the act of gratifying or yielding to a wish

Question 20

Predestination

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is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul.

Question 21

Reformation

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a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.

Question 22

Martin Luther

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was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk[2] and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.

Question 23

Henry VIII

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was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was the first English King of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by English monarchs to the Kingdom of France.

Question 24

John Calvin

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was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation.

Question 25

Huguenots

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is a designation for a French Protestant or ethnoreligious group who follows the Reformed tradition.