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CIV 111
Civ 111 final - trivia pursuit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What technology originated in China contributed to making the medieval code of chivalry obsolete? | Gunpowder and long bows |
| What Christian reformer was burned at the stake for insisting that Christian belief and practice was rest solidly on Scriptures as translated into vernacular? | Jan Hus |
| What is the painting technique based on gradations of light and shade that helps create a three-dimensional image? | Chiaroscuro |
| What is the location of the "vanishing point" of linear perspective in da Vinci's "The Last Supper"? | Behind Jesus's head |
| Name of the Renaissnace architect whose design and treatise on architecture influenced neo Classical style for the next two centuries? | Andrea Palladio |
| What is the Italian word for the non-citizen, professional soldiers who fought in the 16th century Italian civil wars? | condottieri |
| What is the 14-line lyric poetic form "perfected" by Petrarch? | Sonnet |
| What is the term for the "not inherited but cultivated" characteristic of the self'made Renaissance man? | virtu |
| What is the Latin term for a "well rounded person"? | l'uomo universale |
| What is the name of the professional historians of the African oral folk traditions? | griots |
| Which country becan the transatlantic slave trade in 1551? | Portugal |
| What's the name if the ancient Incan city 9000 feet above sea level? | Machu Pichu |