Renaissance

Question 1

Followed a dark time in European history

Answer 1

Middle Ages

Question 2

Renaissance primarily associated with

Answer 2

Italy, Florence

Question 3

Italy’s five main powers (city-states)

Answer 3

Venice, Milan, Florence, Papal States, Kingdom of Naples

Question 4

French army under King Charles VIII took Florence, Rome and Milan

Answer 4

1494

Question 5

King Louis XII, King Charles VIII’s cousin who succeeded him after his death

Answer 5

1508

Question 6

Why did the renaissance begin

Answer 6

Trade and commerce
Proximity to classical Roman and Greek artifacts and the Byzantine Empire
Not affected by feudalism
Bankers and wealthy patrons

Question 7

Groups of men who were freed from feudal lords
Shared responsibility of citizens after fall of western Roman Empire
Made feudalism difficult
Formed by merchant guilds

Answer 7

Communes

Question 8

Signore means “lordship” — a lord or despot took control
Replaced republican institution by force or agreement

Answer 8

Signorias

Question 9

Power to urban nobility

Answer 9

Oligarchies

Question 10

Protects the commoners

Answer 10

Popolos

Question 11

Politics (different for each city-state)

Answer 11

Communes
Signorias
Oligarchies
Popolos

Question 12

Human beings, not god or faith, as center of life’s attention

Answer 12

Humanism

Question 13

Based on material world not spiritual growth

Answer 13

Secularism

Question 14

New attitude toward men, women and the world
Freedom for the individual, emphasis on moral worth

Answer 14

Individualism

Question 15

Ruling family of Florence

Answer 15

Medici family

Question 16

Church and Pope

Answer 16

Pope Julius II

Question 17

Civil war in England from 1455-1487

Answer 17

War of the Roses

Question 18

Lancaster faction

Answer 18

Henry IV

Question 19

York faction

Answer 19

Edmund of Langley

Question 20

Lancaster rose

Answer 20

Red

Question 21

York rose

Answer 21

White