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9WH Chapter 1
Question | Answer |
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Renaissance | Rebirth |
Where did the Renaissance begin? | Italy |
Ways the Crusades contributed to the Renaissance: | 1. Increased demand for Middle Eastern products. 2. Stimulated production of goods to trade in Middle Eastern markets. 3. Encouraged the use of credit and banking. |
Major Italian cities | Milan, Venice, Florence, Genoa |
Renaissance Man | the ideal individual who strove to master almost every area of study. |
Humanism | viewed life as preparation for afterlife, but also celebrated living and the individual. |
Secular | worldly rather than spiritual and concerned with the here and now. |
Who is known as the first Humanist? | Petrarch |
Who wrote The Prince? | Niccolo Machiavelli |
List the guidelines given in The Prince for a ruler to rule with absolute power: | 1. Better for a ruler to be feared than to be loved. 2. Ruler should be quick and decisive in decision making. 3. Ruler keeps power by any means necessary. 4. The end justifies the means |
Who wrote The Book of the Courtier? | Castiglione |
Perspective | art style which shows 3 dimensions on a flat surface. |
Vernacular | everyday language |
Who invented the moveable printing press? | Johannes Gutenberg |
What was the first book printing on the printing press? | Bible |
Who pushed for a vernacular form of the Bible and was considered the most influential humanist of Northern Europe? | Erasmus |
Who wrote Utopia? (Be sure to understand what his ideal society consisted of) | Sir Thomas Moore |
Who was the leading literary figure of the Renaissance? | William Shakespeare |
Protestant Reformation (understand the 2 causes) | reform movement that would split the Catholic Church |
Who wrote the 95 thesis? | Martin Luther |
Indulgences | payments for pardon of sins |
Who established the Anglican Church? (understand this Jerry Springer story) | Henry VIII |
What are Calvinists called in France and England/ North America? | France- Huguenots England and North America- Puritans |