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34 Cards in this Set
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__________ is the belief that the individual is more important than the larger community. |
Individualism |
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The city in Sir Thomas More's Utopia was a place |
that was governed by reason |
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Renaissance artists used ________, which was a design etched on a metal plate with a needle and acid. |
engraving |
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Peasants and nobles moved from manors to towns |
in order to find more opportunities to gain wealth |
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Italy was a better place for commercial growth than other medieval European countries because |
of its geographical location |
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Feudalism grew weaker when |
trade and industry grew |
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A style of writing that uses ridicule or sarcasm to criticize vice or folly is known as |
satire |
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Renaissance architect Leon Alberti referred to architecture as a "social art" because |
it was a blend of beauty and usefulness for the improvement of society. |
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Which Renaissance literary work is an example of "picaresque"? |
Don Quixote |
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One reason why Italy became the birthplace of the Renaissance is that |
feudalism was not as strongly developed there as in other countries. |
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Which of the following was NOT one of the new subjects that emerged when secular learning became popular? |
Religion |
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A new urban aristocracy was formed when the rural nobility joined a class of people, known as the ________ middle class, who were engaged in commerce or trade. |
mercantile |
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Wealthy people called ________ supported the arts and learning in Italy during the Renaissance. |
patrons |
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Which of the following was a Renaissance reformer who used satire to criticize Church leaders and practices? |
Desiderius Erasmus |
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A poem made up of 14 lines with a fixed rhyming pattern is called a |
sonnet |
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Dante Alighieri's work, The Divine Comedy,was significant because |
it was written in Italian, not Latin. |
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Which of the following best describes a Renaissance painting? |
A painting showing realistic-looking figures |
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The view that religion need not be the center of human affairs was called ________. |
secularism |
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The novel Don Quixote is an example of the ________, a series of comic episodes usually involving a mischievous character. |
picaresque |
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The Last Judgment was a major work painted by |
Michelangelo Buonarroti |
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___________ was a cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works. |
Humanism |
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The discovery of the rules of ________, a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface, is credited to architect Filippo Brunelleschi. |
linear perspective |
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Which of the following was NOT a change brought about by Gutenberg's printing press? |
More copies of the Bible were handwritten in monasteries. |
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The view that religion did not need to be at the center of human affairs was called |
secularism |
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In his book In Praise of Folly, Erasmus uses ______ to criticize the Church. |
satire |
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Renaissance literature differed from medieval literature in that Renaissance literature |
was written in the vernacular. |
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Which of the following was the first major work of Spanish literature? |
Don Quixote |
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Most medieval art dealt with |
Religious themes |
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Why did Church officials begin to censor certain published works during the Renaissance? |
Because they wanted to put a stop to the growing criticism of the Church. |
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Wealthy merchants and bankers helped to promote learning and the arts by |
becoming patrons |
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William Shakespeare wrote plays and _______, poems made up of 14 lines with a fixed rhyming pattern. |
sonnets |
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Which of the following ancient cultures was NOT a major influence on Renaissance architects and builders? |
China |
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During the Renaissance, church officials ________ many works of literature in order to prevent people from reading criticisms of the Church. |
censored |
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The _______ was a great cultural revival that began in Italy in the 1300s. |
Renaissance |
