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World History Ch 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The birthplace of Renaissance | Florence |
| Using this helps artists create realistic drawings | perspective |
| A financial supporter of the arts is called: | patron |
| Who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper | Leonardo |
| Assembled a library of ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts | Petrarch |
| During the Renaissance, there was a revival of interest in: | individual achievement |
| How did Italy’s location help make it the starting point of the Renaissance? | Mediterranean trade brought wealth there |
| How was Renaissance art different from the art of the Middle Ages? | Renaissance art was more realistic and portrayed some non-religious subjects |
| Who sculpted David and painted the Sistine Chapel? | Michelangelo |
| In The Prince, Macchiavelli advises rulers to: | be ruthless in achieving goals |
| Who was Erasmus? | A priest who spread Renaissance humanism |
| Everyday language of ordinary people | vernacular |
| Who was Thomas More? | A social reformer; described an ideal society |
| Who was the inventor of the printing press? | John Gutenberg |
| Who was Albrecht Durer? | an artist who was strongly influenced by the Italian Renaissance |
| What did the printing revolution do? | exposed educated readers to new ideas and places |
| The northern Renaissance began in the cities of: | Flanders |
| Rubens, vanEyck, and Bruegel were all: | northern Renaissance painters |
| What did Rabelais, Shakespear, and Cervantes have in common? | they each wrote in the vernacular (everyday language) |
| Which Renaissance ideal did Shakespeare’s work explore? | complexity of the individual |
| What is a theocracy? | A government run by religious leaders |
| Another term for a meeting or assembly is: | diet |
| Martin Luther was called to a ______, or meeting of German princes | diet |
| The idea that God has already determined who will be saved is called | predestination |
| Martin Luther first announced his opposition to the Catholic Church in the city of: | Wittenberg |
| An _________ was a way of buying entry into heaven | indulgence |
| Anger at the worldliness of the Church was a factor leading to the: | Reformation |
| One belief that Luther held that differed from Church practices was: | he believed Christians could be saved only by faith |
| Luther’s ideas spread mostly in: | Germany and Scandinavia |
| John Calvin believed the world was divided into: | saints and sinners |
| To escape religious persecution, some Calvinists: | sailed to the Americas |