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World History 9WT 1

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How did the attitudes of Renaissance thinkers differ from those of Medieval Scholars? Human experience in the present was explored.
What did humanists believe would stimulate an individual’s creative powers? Education
How did the Medici family come to control Florence? The Medicis were one of the wealthiest, most powerful merchant families in Europe.
How did the Medici family help the Renaissance to flower? They were generous patrons of the arts.
What Florentine landmark shows how architecture blended beauty and utility during the Renaissance? The Cathedral Dome
The Prince and the Book of Courtier are examples of what type of literature developed during the Renaissance? Guidebooks to help people with ambition
Why was Albrecht Dürer sometimes called the ”German Leonardo”? He spread the Italian Renaissance to his homeland.
Which Italian Renaissance writer stressed that the end justifies the means in his writings? Niccoló Machiavelli
Dürer was particularly interested in what art form? Engraving
The growing middle class began to demand written material in what language? the venacular
What best describes Cervantes’ book Don Quixote? a tale that mocks romantic notions of medieval chivalry
Why did Martin Luther write the 95 Theses? He was denouncing the sale of indulgences.
The followers of John Calvin...? believed in predestination.
In Utopia, Thomas More describes...? an ideal society in which men and women live in harmony.
What issues led people to move towards the Protestant Reformation? Popes led lives of luxury and abused their power.
What did Lutherans believe about salvation? It is achieved through faith.
The spread of Calvinism led to what event? wars of religion across Europe
Why did Henry VIII want his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled, after 18 years of marriage? She did not give birth to a male child.
When did Elizabeth become Queen of England? when her half
According to legend, when Newton saw an apple fall from the tree, he began to consider what idea? Gravity
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