Renaissance

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In what area did not Michelangelo excel

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sculpting

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Florence built its prosperity on

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banking and wool

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what quality characterizes the works of Botticelli

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use of mythologies that departed from the naturalism of Massaccio

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In the process of centralizing authority within the five powers of italy, what military commander was responsible for taking power in Milan after the Visconti?

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Lorenzo Vallo

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what was the primary factor determining a citizens standing in an Italian town

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family

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In reality, Venice's political structure was an

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obligarchy

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The chief field of study for the humanists was

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philology

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Venice based its economic dominance on its

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privileged position with the Byzantine empire

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The author of the prince is

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niccolo machiavelli

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which of the following cities was a major player in italian politics

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Palermo

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Humanism made its most impressive contributions in

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recovery of ancient texts

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what are 3 works of michalangelo

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ceiling of the sistine chapel, pieta, david

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a balance of power in italy was achieved in 1454 in the

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peace of Lodi

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What was Leonardo Brunis humanisistic contribution

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he translated Aristotle and Plato from classical Greek and did much to foster the ideas of Plato

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The family that dominated florence was the

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Medici

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Of the five leading powers in the Italian peninsula, which one was ruled by a hereditary monarchy

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naples

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Which of the Medicis established the family's superior position in Florence after return from a brief exile in 1434

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Cosimo

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What are 3 things about Machiabelli

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He came from an estabished florentine family
He served as an emissary to Cesare Borgia
He served as secretary of the Florentine council of ten

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The northern European country that invaded Italy in 1494 as an ally of Milan was

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France

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most humanists were

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laymen

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who was the author of the influential Renaissance tract, The Courtier

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baldesar castiflione

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Italy was characterized politically by

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fragmentation

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what event made italy the center for Greek studies

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the fall of constantinople

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The title of elected Vinetian leadeer was the

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doge

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the patron saint of Venice is

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St. Mark

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Civic humanism is best expressed in the work on the family written written by

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Leon Battista Alberti

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Who was responsible for the conquest of constantinople in 1453

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Mehmed II

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The dominant form of political organization on the italian peninsula during the renaissance was

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the city-state

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What particular development differentiated Italy from the rest of Europe

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high degree of urban development

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the major feature affecting the economy in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centry was

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change in population

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In renaissance urbn sociey, the church

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remained the spatial, social, and spiritual center of peoples lives

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the mercenaries who dominated italy were the

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condottieri

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which of the following was a factor cotributing to instability in florence in the late fourteenth and early fifteenh century

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the outbreak of plague, decline in cloth production, the creation of a massive public debt

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the venetian book of gold recorded

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the naes of all males qualified as memvers of the great council

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what was machiavellis objective in writing the prince

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the reestablish Italian rule and place government on a stalbe basis

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The most warlike of the Italian citystates was Milan, ruled for two centuries by the

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visconti

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what Italian citystate was most directly affected by the advance of the Ottomans

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Venice

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In 1860 the author jacob Burkgardt descrived this as the prototype of the modern world

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Renaissance

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To be in favor of the pope

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propapal

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there were this many compepririve Italian citystates in the Renaissance

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5

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Italy's ___ had a great deal to do with the Renaissance beginning there

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geography

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The Renaissance began in this centurry

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14th

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The Renaissance ended in tis century

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17th

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This Italian city-state was ruled by a merchantoligarchy

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venice

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this means government by a few

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oligarchy

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In Florence the old rich were the

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popolo grande

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a person who has no wealth at all

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pauper

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this man brought stability to Florence

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Cosimo de' Medici

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a hired strongman to maintain laq and order

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podesta

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political turbulence and warfare gave birth to the governmental need for

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diplomacy

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This man is noted for his sonnets to Laura

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Petrarch

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The author of the Divine comedy

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Dante

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Divine Comedy is a

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epic poem

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It is better to will the good than to know the truth

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petrarch

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The Florentine Academy was established to study the cassics of this civilization

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greek

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christiien de pison in her work warned wives to keep their husband away from this city

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Paris

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The love of learning and literature

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philology

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This means worldly or non religious

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secular

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this man is considered the father of renaissance painting

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giotto

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Leonardo da Vinci lived in these two centuries

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15th and 16th

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Michelangelo lived in these two centuries

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15th and 16th

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this artist is known for his madonnas

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raphael

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Michelangelos sculpture of david is feet tall

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12

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this pope commissioned michelangelo for the ceiling of the sistine chapel

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julius II

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the ceiling took michelangelo ______ years to complete

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4

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Michelangelo depicted this many figures in the ceiling frescos

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343

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Michelangelo died at

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89

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the style in which an artist is free to express his or her individua perceptions and feelings

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mannerism

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a thriving western slave market existed as early as the ___ century

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12th

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the spanish were selling these slaves in europe at this time

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africans

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there were two types of slavery at this time plantation and

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domestic

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this agricultural product was being brought in by the plantation system

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sugar

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the need for slavery in europe was in large part due to this

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blacck death

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Italian city-states were competitive, but would unitewhen threatened by

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war

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This dominican priest praised the invasion of the French and came to rule Florence for a time

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savanarola

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this country helped the french return to Italy

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Alexander 5th

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the warrior pope was

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julius II

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the concordant of bologna of 1516 helped keep this country predominately Roman catholic

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Italy

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the four wars fought between France and Spain were the

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Habsburg-Valois

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The ability to act deciively and heroiticaly for the good of your country is

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virt'u

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the author of the prince is

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machiavelli

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the prince is based on this mans life

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cesare borgia

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the author of the prince hoped that this family would drive the french from italy

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medici