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43 Cards in this Set
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What political structure did the strong nation state replace?
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Feudalism
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Name Michelangelo's most famous painting and sculpture.
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Sistine Chapel; the David
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What period did Rafael belong to?
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the Renaissance
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Name two characteristics of the nation state.
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1. Alliance between monarchs and towns
2. Taxes, laws, wars |
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Who was the father of Humanism?
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Petrarch
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What treaty kept the city-states unified against outside threat?
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Treaty of Lodi
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Which emperor united the Spanish and Austrian sides of the Habsburg empire?
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Charles I
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What were the three main characteristics of the Spanish Empire in America?
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Conquest, Conversion, and Extraction of wealth
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Who was the most popular classical figure during the Ren?
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Plato
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Who hoped that a strong Italian ruler would come from the Medicis?
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Machiavelli
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What was the Castiglione's main emphasis?
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For nobles at court to embody the highest ideals of humanism
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Name the three main components of the colonial economy in Latin America
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Mining, Agriculture, and Shipping
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What was Erasmus's philosophy a combination of?
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Religion reformer, and Educator
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Who conquered the Incas; Aztecs?
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Pizarro; Cortez
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Name three countries with strong nation-states developed?
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Spain, England, and France
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Name two key places where strong nation states did not develop?
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Germany, and Italy
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What alliance was formed to remove the French from Italy?
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The League of Venice
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Name the Popes of this era that were more political than spiritual?
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Alexander VI (Borgia); Julius II
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Name the work and author that describes an ideal society that will never exist?
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Thomas More; Utopia
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The age of exploration was driven by desire for what two things?
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Wealth and the desire to convert the native population to Christianity
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What work an author focused on man's ability to determine his destiny?
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Pico Della Mirandola; The Oration of Dignity of Man
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What two noble houses fought in the War of Roses?
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Lancaster and York
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What English dynasty emerged from the War of Roses?
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Lancaster
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Why is Machiavelli emphasis on virtu so humanist?
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Because it relies on man's ability to make choices and do what is right
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Who was the Ren Man?
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Da Vinci
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How did Ren art differ from art from the Middle of Ages?
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Use of perspective, shading, not solely focused on the Religious
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What economic developments allowed for secular patronage of the arts?
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Increased trade and commerce which allowed private individuals to become wealthy
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What major war of the Middle Ages helped unify France and England individually by pitting them against each other?
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The Hundred Years War
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Identify the two major northern Humanists?
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Erasmus; More
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How was the subject matter of the northern Ren a departure from the high Ren?
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Focus more on religious reform
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What issue caused a split from Thomas More and Henry VIII?
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Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn
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Who did Alexander VI try to install as ruler of Romagna?
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His son Ceasar
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Who was the first to "invite the French over the Alps" and break the Treaty of Lodi?
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Ludivico il Moro
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What was the virtu that Machiavelli so valued?
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Man's ability to make choices and do what was right
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Who was the master of German Ren painting?
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Albrect Durer
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What technological process that proceeded movable metal type made mass printing more feasible?
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Printing Press
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List two reason the Church feared the Humanists
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Encouraged thinking on their own; valued man; and the idea that we are born with ability to do good-not just sinful as the Church had always said
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What is the message of Boccaccio's Decameron?
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The humans have faults that can be overcome
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What two entities did Erasmus compare in trying to demonstrate the true nature of Christianity?
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Classical ideals of humanity ad civic virtue with christian ideals of love and piety
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Name the six major Italian city-states?
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Naples; Venice; Milan; Papal States; Florence; and Genoa
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Identify two classical features that were prominent in Ren architecture
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Domes; rounded arches; and use of columns
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Which two nations were most involved in the exploration of the "New World" during the Ren?
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Spain; Portugal
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What did Ferdinand and Isabella do (besides getting married) to unify the nation of Spain?
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Christianized Spain (expelled Jews and Muslims); Centralized government through the Mesta; Secures the borders of Spain
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