Chapter 10 Reading Quiz Notes

Question 1

Venice

Answer 1

originally ruled by successful merchant oligarchy

Question 2

Grandi

Answer 2

Old rich

-nobles and merchants who traditionally ruled venice

Question 3

Popolo Grosse

Answer 3

Fat people

-newly rich merchant class

Question 4

Popolo Minuto

Answer 4

little people

-lower class

Question 5

Ciompi Revolt

Answer 5

uprising of the poor

-established chaotic 4 year reign

Question 6

Cosimo de Medici

Answer 6

Florentine Banker and salesman who returned stability to Venice after the revolt
-controlled behind the scenes

Question 7

Signora

Answer 7

6-8 member council that originally governed Venice

Question 8

Lorenzo the Magnificent

Answer 8

Medici’s grandson

-ruled, totalitarian for the last quarter of 15th century

Question 9

Podesta

Answer 9

despot

-maintained law and order

Question 10

Condottieri

Answer 10

mercenary armies

Question 11

Humanism

Answer 11

• birth of modernity
• catholics opposing Pagans
• Neutral form of historical scholarship

Question 12

Paul O. Kristeller

Answer 12

scholar who said humanism was educational program

Question 13

Florentine Leonardo Bruni

Answer 13

gave the name humanitas

Question 14

Francesco Petrarch

Answer 14

father of humanism, wrote “Letters to the Ancient Dead:

Question 15

Dante Alighier

Answer 15

wrote “vita Nuova” + “Divine Comedy”

-cornerstone of the Italian vernacular

Question 16

Pietro Paolo Vergerio

Answer 16

author of the most influential Renaissance tract on Education

Question 17

Guarino da Verona

Answer 17

rector of the new university of Ferrara

Question 18

Christine de Pisan

Answer 18

Italian daughter of Physician and astrologer French King Charles V

• married @ 15
• widowed mother of 3 at 27

Question 19

Manuel Chrysoloros

Answer 19

Invited from Constantinople to Promote Greek learning

Question 20

Council of Ferrara

Answer 20

Florence

-negotiated the reunion of East and West churches

Question 21

Florentine Academy

Answer 21

informal gathering of Florentine humanists

Question 22

Platonism

Answer 22

distinguished bw an eternal sphere of being and the perishable world in which humans live

Question 23

Civic humanism

Answer 23

belief that education should promote individual virtue and public service

Question 24

Chiaroscuro

Answer 24

use of shading to enhance naturalness

Question 25

Giotto

Answer 25

Father of Renaissance painting | -natural world painter

Question 26

Leo da Vinci

Answer 26

did everything lol

Question 27

Raphael

Answer 27

madonna paintings

Question 28

Michaelangelo

Answer 28

18 ft. sculpture of David, Sistene Chapel

Question 29

Treaty of Lodi

Answer 29

bw Milan and Naples w Florence against Venice

Question 30

Charles VIII

Answer 30

crossed the Alps and conquered Florence

Question 31

Girolamo Savonarola

Answer 31

radical Dominican preacher that convinced Florentines that French invasion was overdue - ruled france for 4 years - imprisoned and executed May 1498

Question 32

Ferdinand of Argon

Answer 32

created League of Venice

Question 33

Alexander VI

Answer 33

most corrupt pope ever

Question 34

giuliano della Rovere

Answer 34

Cardinal that became Pope Julius II

Question 35

Concordat of bologna

Answer 35

gave French control over French clergy in exchange for French recognition of the pope's superiority over church councils

Question 36

Niccolo Machiavelli

Answer 36

writer of Renaissance, republican, wrote THE PRINCE

Question 37

Henry VII

Answer 37

raised revenues wo parliament

Question 38

Gabelle

Answer 38

salt tax

Question 39

Louis XI

Answer 39

French, created postal system and silk industry

Question 40

Hermandad

Answer 40

powerful leaugue of cities and towns that served them against stubborn noble landowners

Question 41

wars of roses

Answer 41

house of york vs. lancaster

Question 42

Golden bull

Answer 42

established 7 member electoral college

Question 43

Johann Gutenberg

Answer 43

invented printing

Question 44

Erasmus

Answer 44

most famous Northern humanist

Question 45

Rudolf Agricola

Answer 45

father of German humanism

Question 46

Prince Henry

Answer 46

captured North Africa

Question 47

Bartome de Las Casas

Answer 47

Believed conquest was not necessary for conversion

Question 48

Encomienda

Answer 48

formal grant of the right to the labor of indians

Question 49

Repartimiendo

Answer 49

Required adult male indians to labor certain days

Question 50

Mita

Answer 50

labor tax

Question 51

Charles I of Spain

Answer 51

bought his election