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How did Florence become wealthy?
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Florence became wealthy
through trade and banking. |
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What was the affect of advances in cartography during the Renaissance?
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Definition
Advances in cartography allowed for the exploration of new areas of the world. |
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With what groups did the Italian urban nobility blend in marriage? |
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The uban nobility tended to marry wealthy merchants and Italian nobility. |
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Who was Francesco Petrarch? |
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Francesco Petrarch
was a Renaissance
humanist scholar. |
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Who was
Leonardo da Vinci? |
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Definition
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian scientist and artist. |
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What was the affect of Marco Polo's book? |
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Definition
Marco Polo's book increased interest in trade with China. |
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| How did Renaissance art in Italy differ from the Renaissance art of Northern Europe? |
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Definition
Artists in Northern Europe made engravings and used oil paints. |
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How did the Italian city-states grow wealthy? |
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| Besides trade, banking, and shipbuilding; the Italian city state grew wealthy because most of them were seaports. |
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How did Medieval and Renaissance artists differ? |
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| Renaissance artists turned to Greek and Roman works for inspiration. |
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Who painted the Sistine Chapel? |
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Definition
Michelangelo
painted
the Sistine Chapel. |
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Frescos, a new type of painting in the Renaissance were made from what?
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Definition
Frescos are made from a mixture of watercolors
and wet plaster. |
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Why was The Divine Comedy so widely read? |
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Definition
The Divine Comedy was widely read because it
was written in the
vernacular. |
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Term
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy? |
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Definition
| Italian city-states competed with each other, Italy was wealthy, and Roman ruins reminded Italians of their past. |
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Who usually ran the
Italian city-states? |
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Definition
Italian city states were often run by a powerful, wealthy ruler or family. |
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Why did Venicians become expert shipbuilders? |
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Definition
Their city was built on swampy land. |
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What form of government did the Italian city-states use? |
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Definition
Most city-states were republics. |
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| What does it mean that people became more secular during the Renaissance? |
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Definition
They focused more on this world rather than an ephasis on getting to heaven. |
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Term
What is the Renaissance, and when did it occur? |
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Definition
| Renaissance means "rebirth" in this case the rebirth of interest and study of classical Greek & Roman culture. It occured between 1350 and 1550. |
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| Besides banking, what was the primary trade item that merchants went to Florence for? |
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Why is Leonardo da Vinci considered the model of the "Renaissance Man?" |
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The term "Renaissance Man"comes from the fact that Leonardo da Vinci was genious in so many areas: painting, scientist, and inventor.
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| What Renaissance author is known for writting about 29 pilgrims in everyday language? |
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Definition
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For what work is Dante Aligighieri known for? |
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Definition
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Term
How was the first Bible mechanically printed? |
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Definition
Using his invention the printing press,
Johannes Guttenberg printed the first Bible. |
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Term
Shakespeare wrote sonnets and many plays including: |
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Definition
Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, MacBeth, and Mid Summer Night's Dream. |
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Definition
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| What Renaissance technique did artists use to make paintings look more realistic? |
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Definition
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Who wrote
Don Quixote de la Mancha? |
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Definition
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Term
In what style did Chaucer write
The Canterbury Tales? |
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Definition
Chaucer wrote
The Canterbury Tales
in the vernacular. |
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Term
How did Petrarch contribute to the preservation of Roman knowledge? |
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Definition
Petrarch encouraged Europeans to search for Latin manuscrips in monistaries all over Europe. His efforts created new libraries to keep the documents including the Vatican Library in Rome. |
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In which state was Rome located? |
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Definition
Rome was located in the papal states. |
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Term
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Definition
| City-states were politically independent cities that controlled the surrounding area. |
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Term
What did humanists believe? |
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Definition
Humanists believed people should achieve a balance between reason and faith. |
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What was the name of Shakespeare's theater? |
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Definition
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Other than Humanism, another Renaissance philosophy which was a precursor to the beliefs of our founding fathers was: |
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Definition
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Term
Sonnets, written by William Shakespeare
are by definition: |
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Definition
| poems of fourteen lines, written in iambic pentameter and a definite rhyme scheme. |
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Term
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Definition
A doge is a duke-head of a city state. |
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Term
Name five Italian
city-states: |
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Definition
| Genoa, Milan, Florence, Lucca, Milan (Venice, Sicily, Corsica, Modena, Mantua, Ferrara, Siena, Papal States) |
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Term
| Michaelangelo considered himself a sculpture. Name two if his most famous works. |
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Definition
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Who did Renaissance leaders depend on for their art of negotiation? |
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Definition
| Renaissance leaders depended on diplomats for their art of negotiating. |
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Term
In what city state is Pisa located? |
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Definition
Pisa is located in
Florence. |
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Term
On what body of water can you find Venice?
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Definition
Venice is located on the
Adriatic Sea. |
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Term
In what city did Marco Polo begin and end his trips to China? |
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Definition
Marco Polo was from Venice. |
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Term
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Definition
| Begun in the medieval Europe H. is an approach to understanding the world based on the values of ancient Greeks and Romans. |
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Term
What did
humanists believe? |
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Definition
Humanists believed an individual's free will and society were important. They saught a balance between faith and reason and focused on life in this world rather than an afterlife; thus, were more secular. They encouraged men to achieve to serve in their cities and their governments. |
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Term
When did the Renaissance begin to affect England? |
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Definition
The Renaissance did not affect England until the late 1500's |
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Term
How did the Renaissance affect English culture? |
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Definition
The Renaissance affected
England in the area of writng and theater. |
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Term
How did the printing press affect the Renaissance in England? |
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Definition
Because of the printing press the plays and literature from England was the first to be published and became widely spread.
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| What were the genres for the plays of William Shakespeare? |
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Definition
| Shakespeare plays were comedies, tragedies, and histories. |
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Term
What did Shakespeare write besides plays? |
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Definition
Shakespeare wrote sonnets.
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Term
In what form
are sonnets
written? |
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Definition
| Sonnets are written in blank verse. That is, an iambic pentameter rhythum with a nonspecific rhyme scheme. |
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