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Question 1

The most devastating natural disaster in European history

Answer 1

Black Death

Question 2

The long, exhausting struggle from 1337-1435 ended in expelling the English from all continental lands except the port of Calais

Answer 2

Hindered years war

Question 3

She had visions from God and joined the military and helped the French find confidence changing the course of the war but was captured and burned at the stake

Answer 3

Joan of arc

Question 4

The great counsel of barons

Answer 4

House of Lords

Question 5

The representatives of the shires and boroughs l, who were considered less important.

Answer 5

House of Commons

Question 6

The edict that stated four lay princes and three ecclesiastical rulers would serve as electors with the legal power to elect the king

Answer 6

Golden bull

Question 7

The other northern Italian state which had grown rich from commercial activity in the eastern Mediterranean and Northern Europe

Answer 7

Republic of Venice

Question 8

Where the new pope took up residence

Answer 8

Avignon

Question 9

Saintly demeanor and claims of visions from God led the city of Florence to send her on a mission to pope Gregory XI

Answer 9

Catherine of Siena

Question 10

There were two popes

Answer 10

Great schism

Question 11

Wrote divine comedy

Answer 11

Dante Alighieri

Question 12

Wrote the Canterbury tales

Answer 12

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 13

Introduced a new understanding of time

Answer 13

Clocks

Question 14

Introduced a new way of protection for castles

Answer 14

Cannons

Question 15

The birthplace of the modern world

Answer 15

Renaissance

Question 16

Where Italian merchants came into contact with these powerful merchants who prospered during the Black Plague

Answer 16

Hanseatic league

Question 17

The greatest banking establishment all controlled by one family

Answer 17

House of Medici

Question 18

A fundamental handbook for European aristocrats for centuries

Answer 18

The book of Courtier

Question 19

Five major powers that dominated the Italian peninsula

Answer 19

Italian states

Question 20

Dominated the region of Tuscany

Answer 20

Republic of Florence

Question 21

He wrote The Prince one of the most famous treaties on political power in the western world

Answer 21

Niccolò Machiavelli

Question 22

The father of the Italian renaissance humanism

Answer 22

Petrarch

Question 23

Played an important role in bribing the printing process to completion

Answer 23

Johannes Gutenberg

Question 24

One of the great Italian renaissance artists, he represents a transitional figure in the shift to high renaissance principles

Answer 24

Leonard’s da Vinci

Question 25

Blossomed as anointer at An early age; he attempted to achieve an ideal of beauty far surpassing human standards

Answer 25

Raphael

Question 26

An accomplished painter, sculptor, and architect. Another giant of the high renaissance. Driven by his passion and energy on a remarkable number of projects

Answer 26

Michelangelo

Question 27

Made two trips to Italy and absorbed most of what the Italians could teach, as is evident in his mastery of the laws of perspective and renaissance theories of proportion

Answer 27

Albrecht Dürer

Question 28

Annexed other Russian principalities and took advantage of dissension among the mongols to grow off their yoke by 1480

Answer 28

Ivan III

Question 29

Beginning in northeastern Asia Minor in the thirteenth century, the ottoman Turks spread rapidly, seizing the lands of Seljuk Turks and the Byzantine empire

Answer 29

Byzantine empire

Question 30

Urged the elimination of the worldliness and corruption of the clergy and attacked the excessive power of the papacy within the Catholic Church

Answer 30

John Hus