Exam 13: The Renaissance: Transition to the Modern Age

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Define the term humanism and explain its impact on a Renaissance educational ideal.

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Which of the following was not characteristic of the new codes of behavior developed in Renaissance Italy?

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Question 42

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Discuss the ideas of Machiavelli.Do you think he offers a cogent message for contemporary leaders?

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Question 43

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -pluralistic

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Question 44

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -How may one argue that the Italian city-states contributed to the advance of political concepts?

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Question 45

Renaissance thinkers most commonly believed that women

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Question 46

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -civic humanism

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A central theme in the work of Shakespeare was

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Question 48

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -aristocratic republic

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Question 49

In The Prince, Machiavelli states that

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -What is the meaning of the term individualism in the Renaissance context? How was the individualism of the Renaissance incompatible with the medieval worldview?

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Question 51

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Elaborate on the meaning of the term renaissance.Was it a rebirth, a period of transition, or a sharp break with the past?

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Question 52

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Italy to answer the question(s). -Locate the five major powers that emerged on the Italian peninsula: the kingdom of Naples and Sicily, the Papal States, Florence, Venice, and Milan.

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Question 53

Which of the following inaccurately describes changes in Western civilization between 1400 and 1800?

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Question 54

Who was the author of the Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)?

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Question 55

Which city-state maintained its republican form of government until the time of Napoleon?

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Question 56

The fluidity of northern Italian society during the Renaissance produced all the following except

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The Renaissance may refer to

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Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -lay piety

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Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -oligarchies

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Define the term humanism and explain its impact on a Renaissance educational ideal.

Which of the following was not characteristic of the new codes of behavior developed in Renaissance Italy?

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Discuss the ideas of Machiavelli.Do you think he offers a cogent message for contemporary leaders?

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -pluralistic

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -How may one argue that the Italian city-states contributed to the advance of political concepts?

Renaissance thinkers most commonly believed that women

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -civic humanism

A central theme in the work of Shakespeare was

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -aristocratic republic

In The Prince, Machiavelli states that

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -What is the meaning of the term individualism in the Renaissance context? How was the individualism of the Renaissance incompatible with the medieval worldview?

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Elaborate on the meaning of the term renaissance.Was it a rebirth, a period of transition, or a sharp break with the past?

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Italy to answer the question(s). -Locate the five major powers that emerged on the Italian peninsula: the kingdom of Naples and Sicily, the Papal States, Florence, Venice, and Milan.

Which of the following inaccurately describes changes in Western civilization between 1400 and 1800?

Who was the author of the Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)?

Which city-state maintained its republican form of government until the time of Napoleon?

The fluidity of northern Italian society during the Renaissance produced all the following except

The Renaissance may refer to

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -lay piety

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -oligarchies

The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

The Hebrews: a New View of God and the Individual

The Greek City-State: Democratic Politics

Greek Thought: From Myth to Reason

The Hellenistic Age: Cultural Diffusion

The Roman Republic: City-State to World Empire

The Roman Empire: a World-State

Early Christianity: a World Religion

The Heirs of Rome: Byzantium, Islam, and Latin Christendom

The High Middle Ages: Vitality and Renewal

The Flowering of Medieval Culture: the Christian Synthesis

The Late Middle Ages: Crisis and Dissolution

The Reformation: the Shattering of Christian Unity

European Expansion: Economic and Social Transformations

The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State

The Scientific Revolution: the Universe Seen As a Mechanism

The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform

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