Modern West Test 1

Question 1

Peasant girl who led french army to victory over the english in the 100 years war

Answer 1

Joan of Arc

Question 2

English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales

Answer 2

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 3

An italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice

Answer 3

Dante Alighieri

Question 4

Father of the Renaissance. Believed the first 2 centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization

Answer 4

Petrarch

Question 5

Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe

Answer 5

Erasmus

Question 6

Invented the moveable type printing press in 1445

Answer 6

Johann Guttenberg

Question 7

The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman empire; also known as “the lawgiver”

Answer 7

Suleiman the Magnificent

Question 8

Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal’s colonial empire

Answer 8

Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 9

A Portuguese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean

Answer 9

Vasco de Gama

Question 10

Claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500. He had intended to follow Da Gama but was blown off Course

Answer 10

Pedro Cabral

Question 11

Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China

Answer 11

Christopher Columbus

Question 12

A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him

Answer 12

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 13

Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world

Answer 13

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 14

Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain

Answer 14

Hernan Cortes

Question 15

Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima

Answer 15

Francisco Pizarro

Question 16

Elector of Saxony, protected Luther and sheltered him

Answer 16

Frederick the Wise

Question 17

Swiss reformer, influenced by Christian humanism. Banned music and relics from services

Answer 17

Ulrich Zwingli

Question 18

French theologian. Developed the Christian theology known as Calvinism

Answer 18

John Calvin

Question 19

King of England from 1509-1547. His desire to annul his marriage led to a conflict with the pope

Answer 19

Henry VIII

Question 20

This was the queen who reverted back to Catholicism in England for five years and during this reign, she executed many protestant

Answer 20

Mary I

Question 21

Holy Roman Emperor and Carlos I of spain, tried to keep Europe religiously united, inherited Spain, Netherlands, Southern Italy, Austria, and much of the Holy Roman Emperor

Answer 21

Charles V

Question 22

King of Spain from 1556-1598. Absolute monarch who helped lead the Counter Reformation by persecuting protestants in his holdings

Answer 22

Philip II

Question 23

Originally Henry of Navarre. He was a Polititque, he became a Catholic because he knew most of France was Catholic

Answer 23

Henry IV

Question 24

Swedish Lutheran who won victories for the German Protestants in the thirty years war

Answer 24

Gustavus Adolphus

Question 25

An artist who led the way into realism; his treatment of the human body and face replaced the formal stiffness and artificiality that had long characterized the representation of the human body

Answer 25

Giotto

Question 26

A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist

Answer 26

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 27

Italian Renaissance painter; The School of Athens

Answer 27

Raphael

Question 28

Sculptor; Florentine artist before Michelangelo, his statues expressed an appreciation of the incredible variety of numan nature

Answer 28

Donatello

Question 29

The battle of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on September 12, 1683

Answer 29

Ottoman Defeat at Vienna

Question 30

Luther emphasized the oneness of Christ’s person.
Zwingli emphasized the distinction of the natures; Christ is not present in the bread and wine.

Answer 30

Doctrinal differences between Luther and Zwingli

Question 31

Causes of the Renaissance