Chapter 9

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy

Question 2

Milan

Answer 2

A city in Italy

Question 3

Venice

Answer 3

City in northeastern Italy

Question 4

Florence

Answer 4

City in central Italy on the Arno River

Question 5

Rome

Answer 5

Capital of Italy, largest city in the country, and seat of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 6

Medici

Answer 6

A powerful Italian family of bankers and merchants

Question 7

Humanism

Answer 7

an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.

Question 8

Machiavelli

Answer 8

being or acting in accordance with the principles of government

Question 9

Perspective

Answer 9

the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression

Question 10

Gutenburg

Answer 10

German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)

Question 11

Erasmus

Answer 11

The Erasmus Programme (European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students)

Question 12

William Shakespeare

Answer 12

An English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, generally considered the greatest writer in English.

Question 13

Sir Thomas More

Answer 13

venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist.

Question 14

Flemish

Answer 14

the Dutch language as spoken in Flanders, one of the two official languages of Belgium.

Question 15

Michelangelo

Answer 15

1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

Question 16

John-van-eyck

Answer 16

was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges

Question 17

Albert Durer

Answer 17

was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.

Question 18

Fresco

Answer 18

a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.

Question 19

Indulgences

Answer 19

the action or fact of indulging.

Question 20

Predestination

Answer 20

the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others.

Question 21

Reformation

Answer 21

the action or process of reforming an institution or practice.

Question 22

Martin Luther

Answer 22

A sixteenth-century German religious leader; the founder of Protestantism.

Question 23

Henry 8

Answer 23

A king of England in the early sixteenth century.

Question 24

John Calvin

Answer 24

French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.

Question 25

Huguenots

Answer 25

French Protestant of the 16th–17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, the Huguenots suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France.