Question 1

Critics of Burckhardt's thesis point to all of the following EXCEPT

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A) the legal and scholastic studies that flourished in Italian universities before 1300. 
B) the "Twelfth-Century Awakening." 
C) the revival of classical learning during the High Middle Ages. 
D) the absence of links between medieval and Renaissance culture. 
E) the medieval heritage of town life and trade. 
A) the legal and scholastic studies that flourished in Italian universities before 1300. 
B) the "Twelfth-Century Awakening." 
C) the revival of classical learning during the High Middle Ages. 
D) the absence of links between medieval and Renaissance culture. 
E) the medieval heritage of town life and trade.

Question 2

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 Utopia

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Utopia is a term that refers to an imagi

Question 3

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 Complutensian Polyglot Bible

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The Complutensian Polyglot Bible was a m

Question 4

As the Renaissance spread outwards from Italy, it differed in all of the following ways EXCEPT

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A) it adapted to political systems run by powerful monarchs. 
B) it was altered by the impact of lay piety. 
C) it was aided by the invention of moveable type. 
D) it was fostered by growing prosperity and the spread of lay education. 
E) it was not court centered. 
A) it adapted to political systems run by powerful monarchs. 
B) it was altered by the impact of lay piety. 
C) it was aided by the invention of moveable type. 
D) it was fostered by growing prosperity and the spread of lay education. 
E) it was not court centered.

Question 5

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 patronage

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Patronage refers to the support, encoura

Question 6

Patronage of the arts in Renaissance Italy served

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A) to manifest the power of the patron. 
B) as a focus of civic pride and patriotism. 
C) as a means to increase the diminishing prestige of the Papacy. 
D) to provide the trappings and justification of power. 
E) all of the above 
A) to manifest the power of the patron. 
B) as a focus of civic pride and patriotism. 
C) as a means to increase the diminishing prestige of the Papacy. 
D) to provide the trappings and justification of power. 
E) all of the above

Question 7

Despotic rule replaced republican governments in the Italian city-state for which of the following reasons?

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A) Class warfare between rich merchants and aristocrats led each side to seek one-man rule. 
B) Republican governments were short-term and unable to handle famines, plagues, and economic disasters. 
C) City-states came to rely on mercenary armies in their wars with fellow city-states. 
D) Mercenary leaders were willing to seize power. 
E) all of the above ​ 
A) Class warfare between rich merchants and aristocrats led each side to seek one-man rule. 
B) Republican governments were short-term and unable to handle famines, plagues, and economic disasters. 
C) City-states came to rely on mercenary armies in their wars with fellow city-states. 
D) Mercenary leaders were willing to seize power. 
E) all of the above ​

Question 8

The most common form of republican government in northern Italy included a chief magistrate

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A) who was elected using a broad franchise. 
B) whose term of office was ordinarily restricted to six months. 
C) whose powers were restricted by a constitution. 
D) who ruled with the advice of a large public council and a small secret council. 
E) all of the above 
A) who was elected using a broad franchise. 
B) whose term of office was ordinarily restricted to six months. 
C) whose powers were restricted by a constitution. 
D) who ruled with the advice of a large public council and a small secret council. 
E) all of the above

Question 9

Machiavelli was particularly influenced by the works of which classical writer?

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A) Livy 
B) Polybius 
C) Galen 
D) Saint Augustine 
E) Cicero 
A) Livy 
B) Polybius 
C) Galen 
D) Saint Augustine 
E) Cicero

Question 10

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. In what ways did the Renaissance represent each of the following: a period of rebirth, a period of transition, and a sharp break with the past?

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The Renaissance was a period of rebirth

Question 11

Michel de Montaigne changed the character of humanism by

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A) adding the principle, "the ends justify the means" in the real world. 
B) inventing Christian humanism. 
C) replacing optimism and civic virtue with skepticism and introspection. 
D) tying it more closely to empirical research and the new science. 
E) reintroducing the traditional Christian view of man as fundamentally evil. 
A) adding the principle, "the ends justify the means" in the real world. 
B) inventing Christian humanism. 
C) replacing optimism and civic virtue with skepticism and introspection. 
D) tying it more closely to empirical research and the new science. 
E) reintroducing the traditional Christian view of man as fundamentally evil.

Question 12

Which of the following statements concerning male humanists' views on women is NOT accurate?

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A) Sir Thomas More forbid his daughters from acquiring education. 
B) Erasmus advocated female education as a way to banish idleness at home. 
C) Juan Vives argued that women should be taught virtue and cheerful obedience to their husbands. 
D) Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim argued that women are not intellectually inferior to men. 
E) Humanists as a whole were decidedly antifeminist. 
A) Sir Thomas More forbid his daughters from acquiring education. 
B) Erasmus advocated female education as a way to banish idleness at home. 
C) Juan Vives argued that women should be taught virtue and cheerful obedience to their husbands. 
D) Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim argued that women are not intellectually inferior to men. 
E) Humanists as a whole were decidedly antifeminist.

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of Instructions: Please use this outline map of...

Question 14

Which of the following was the most common reason the city-states of northern Italy used to justify their resistance to papal interference?

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A) Their primary loyalty was to the Holy Roman Emperor. 
B) The Papacy had lost its legitimacy because if its move to Avignon and the Great Schism. 
C) Christ denied all political jurisdiction to the clergy. 
D) The pope condemned many essential business practices, such as charging interest on loans, as un-Christian. 
E) They still recognized the authority of emperor in Constantinople. 
A) Their primary loyalty was to the Holy Roman Emperor. 
B) The Papacy had lost its legitimacy because if its move to Avignon and the Great Schism. 
C) Christ denied all political jurisdiction to the clergy. 
D) The pope condemned many essential business practices, such as charging interest on loans, as un-Christian. 
E) They still recognized the authority of emperor in Constantinople.

Question 15

Renaissance writers and artists seemed to be conscious of the novelty of their age by

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A) calling the centuries that separated them from antiquity, the "Dark Ages." 
B) consciously breaking with standard artistic and literary forms. 
C) emulating classical forms that had been forgotten for centuries. 
D) adopting a secularism virtually unknown in their time. 
E) all of the above 
A) calling the centuries that separated them from antiquity, the "Dark Ages." 
B) consciously breaking with standard artistic and literary forms. 
C) emulating classical forms that had been forgotten for centuries. 
D) adopting a secularism virtually unknown in their time. 
E) all of the above

Question 16

The Peace of Lodi endured until

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A) the pope declared it null and void. 
B) the Spanish king invaded southern Italy. 
C) Muslim pirates attacked Venetian ships. 
D) the French king invaded northern Italy. 
E) The city-state of Milan attacked Florence. 
A) the pope declared it null and void. 
B) the Spanish king invaded southern Italy. 
C) Muslim pirates attacked Venetian ships. 
D) the French king invaded northern Italy. 
E) The city-state of Milan attacked Florence.

Question 17

The most characteristic intellectual movement of the Renaissance was

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A) secularism. 
B) individualism. 
C) scholasticism. 
D) humanism. 
E) atheism. 
A) secularism. 
B) individualism. 
C) scholasticism. 
D) humanism. 
E) atheism.

Question 18

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). 
   Locate and label the country in which the following individuals lived and worked: Erasmus, Sir Thomas More, Montaigne, Rabelais, Jiménez, Shakespeare, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Gutenberg, and Petrarch.

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The answer of Instructions: Please use this outline map of...

Question 19

Leonardo da Vinci believed that the basis for a true understanding in every field lay in

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A) faith in God. 
B) the works of the Greeks and the Romans. 
C) divine reason, Logos . 
D) mathematics. 
E) hard persistent work. 
A) faith in God. 
B) the works of the Greeks and the Romans. 
C) divine reason, Logos . 
D) mathematics. 
E) hard persistent work.

Question 20

Who was the first to be credited with identifying the Renaissance as the beginning of the modern world?

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A) Burckhardt 
B) Carlyle 
C) Toynbee 
D) Trevelyn 
E) Lelewel 
A) Burckhardt 
B) Carlyle 
C) Toynbee 
D) Trevelyn 
E) Lelewel

Critics of Burckhardt's thesis point to all of the following EXCEPT

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Utopia

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Complutensian Polyglot Bible

As the Renaissance spread outwards from Italy, it differed in all of the following ways EXCEPT

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? patronage

Patronage of the arts in Renaissance Italy served

Despotic rule replaced republican governments in the Italian city-state for which of the following reasons?

The most common form of republican government in northern Italy included a chief magistrate

Machiavelli was particularly influenced by the works of which classical writer?

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. In what ways did the Renaissance represent each of the following: a period of rebirth, a period of transition, and a sharp break with the past?

Michel de Montaigne changed the character of humanism by

Which of the following statements concerning male humanists' views on women is NOT accurate?

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Italy to answer the question(s). Locate and label 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 was the most common reason the city-states of northern Italy used to justify their resistance to papal interference?

Renaissance writers and artists seemed to be conscious of the novelty of their age by

The Peace of Lodi endured until

The most characteristic intellectual movement of the Renaissance was

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Locate and label the country in which the following individuals lived and worked: Erasmus, Sir Thomas More, Montaigne, Rabelais, Jiménez, Shakespeare, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Gutenberg, and Petrarch.

Leonardo da Vinci believed that the basis for a true understanding in every field lay in

Who was the first to be credited with identifying the Renaissance as the beginning of the modern world?

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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Exam 13: The Renaissance: Transition to the Modern Age

Critics of Burckhardt's thesis point to all of the following EXCEPT

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Utopia

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Complutensian Polyglot Bible

As the Renaissance spread outwards from Italy, it differed in all of the following ways EXCEPT

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? patronage

Patronage of the arts in Renaissance Italy served

Despotic rule replaced republican governments in the Italian city-state for which of the following reasons?

The most common form of republican government in northern Italy included a chief magistrate

Machiavelli was particularly influenced by the works of which classical writer?

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. In what ways did the Renaissance represent each of the following: a period of rebirth, a period of transition, and a sharp break with the past?

Michel de Montaigne changed the character of humanism by

Which of the following statements concerning male humanists' views on women is NOT accurate?

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Italy to answer the question(s). Locate and label 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 was the most common reason the city-states of northern Italy used to justify their resistance to papal interference?

Renaissance writers and artists seemed to be conscious of the novelty of their age by

The Peace of Lodi endured until

The most characteristic intellectual movement of the Renaissance was

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Locate and label the country in which the following individuals lived and worked: Erasmus, Sir Thomas More, Montaigne, Rabelais, Jiménez, Shakespeare, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Gutenberg, and Petrarch.

Leonardo da Vinci believed that the basis for a true understanding in every field lay in

Who was the first to be credited with identifying the Renaissance as the beginning of the modern world?

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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