Renaissance

Question 1

Johannes Gutenberg

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Invented moveable printing press

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Nicholas Copernicus

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Wrote the earth rotates the sun

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Nicolo Machiavelli

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Wrote, “The Prince” advising monarchs to concentrate power. Wrote that “the ends justify the means.

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Leonardo DaVinci

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Painter, accomplishments in science, architecture and engineering.

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Michelangelo Buonarotti

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Artist, Sistine Chapel, and ST. Peters cathedral in Rome.

Question 6

What was renaissance architecture like?

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Arches, human likeness in art, domes, columns, and elements reflect ancient Greece and Rome.

Question 7

Wealthy popes and princes patronized art because ….

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Wealthy popes and princes patronized many painters and sculptors that incorporated secular and classic themes into religious topics.

Question 8

What did writers begin writing in?

Answer 8

There vernacular instead of Latin

Question 9

Dante Aligheiri

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“The Divine Comedy” in Italian, about epic journey through hell.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Canterbury tails, in English, is about medieval life.

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Humanism

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Characters look like real individuals.

Question 12

What did Michelangelo us his knowledge of anatomy for?

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Showing humanity.

Question 13

Humanist idealoigy is?

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Reason and logic are important to understand the world as religion and intuition.

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Classicism

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Interest in Greek and Roman cultures and values

Question 15

Francesco Petrarch

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Renaissance writer and a Florentine humanist. Collected Greek and Roman writings.

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Homer

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Poet

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Virgil

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Poet

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Erasmus

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Wrote, “Praise of Folly” ridiculed the church, corrupt official, and the clergy.
“Laid the egg that Luther hatched.”
Believed that Catholic doctrines such as that of free will.

Question 19

Cervantes

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Wrote, don Quixote, poked fun at chivalry and culture in Medival Europe.

Question 20

Where did the Renaissance begin?

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Wealty northern Italian trade centers like Venice and Florence.

Question 21

Medici family of Florence

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Wealthy from banking, wool manufacturing, minding, trade, and more.
Patrons of the arts.
-Michelangelo

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Poor lifestyle

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Shops on groundfloors, crowded housing above. Garbage in streets

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Wealthy lifestyle

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Large homes, little privacy.

Question 24

Sir Thomas More

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 Author of Utopia
 The book contains criticism of the English government and a vision of a perfect society

Question 25

William Shakespeare

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One of the greatest playwrights Focused more on secular topics versus religious themes.

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Christine de Pisan

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Wrote about the roles of women in society.
o Grew up in French court
 Wrote “_The City of Women”
 Topics focused on equality and education for women.

Question 27

 Artist, Albrecht Durer

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o Techniques of realism and perspectives

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 Artist, Jan van Eyck

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Focused on landscapes and domestic life.

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John Wycliffe

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Lived during the Western schism. Interested in the authority of the Clergy. Believed people should be able to interpret the bible themselves and

Question 30

Jan Hus

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Wanted Bishops elected not appointed by the Pope.
Council of Constance - made case but was burned at stake.
Leader of the Moravian Church.

Question 31

What is the Protestant Reformation?

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Religious movement in the 1500s that split the Christian Church Western Europe and led to the establishment of new churches.

Question 32

What sparked reformation?

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 Pope Leo X needs money to build St. Peter’s Basilica…so he sells indulgences!

Question 33

What is vernacular

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The local language

Question 34

What was the job of the church clergy

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To translate the bible

Question 35

Martin Luther

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German Monk and Professor of theology (religion) at the University of Wittenberg.
A leader of Protestant Reformation.

Question 36

What was Luther’s 95 Theses

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Luther wanted to reform the church. Nailed on doors (written in lattin.
Criticized:
Indulgences
Power of the Pope
Wealth of the church.

Question 37

Who excommunicated Luther?

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Pope Leo X

Question 38

What does it mean to be excommunicated?

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Excommunication- expelled him from the church.

Question 39

Ulrich Zwingli

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in Switzerland
Theocracy_
 A government in which church and state are joined and in which officials are considered to be divinely inspired

Question 40

John Knox

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John Knox in Scotland
o Laid grounds for Presbyterian Church

Question 41

John Clavin

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John Calvin in Switzerland
o Predestination
 God knows who will be saved, even before people are born, and therefore guides the lives of those destined fore salvation.

Question 42

Who was King Henry VIII

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Had 6 wives, reformed parliament, by saying England was no longer under control of the Pope.

Question 43

Name Henrys wives

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Name all King Henry’s wives and name their fate:
1. Catherine of Aragon; divorced
2. Anne Boleyn; beheaded
3. Jane Seymour; died
4. Anne of Cleeves; divorced
5. Catherine Howard; beheaded
6. Catherine Parr; survived

Question 44

Reformation of Parliment

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 Was a gathering that led to the decision that England was no longer under the authority of the pope.
 Act of Supremacy
o Subjects were required to take an oath declaring Henry VIII to be
“Supreme head of the Church of England.”

Question 45

Queen Mary I or Bloody Mary

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Raised Catholic like her mother Catherine of Aragon; she reestablished the Catholic Church in England. She killed many protestants and had approximately 300 heretics burned at the stake.

Question 46

Queen Elizabeth I The Virgin Queen

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(Ends the House of Tudor)
 Raised Protestant and ruled England for 44 years. Ruled during the Spanish Armada, and never married…known as the Virgin Queen.