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World History Ch 13

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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
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