A.P. European History Renaissance

1. A.P. European History Renaissance

2. Renaissance Italian Renaissance 100 200 300 400 500 Italian Personalities 100 200 300 400 500 Vocabulary 100 200 300 400 500 Northern Renaissance 100 200 300 400 500 Northern Personalities 100 200 300 400 500

3. What is Florence? MAIN This Italian city-state is considered the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance. SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance 500 400 300 200 100

4. Who were the Medici ( Cosimo and Lorenzo) to name a few? MAIN This was the patron family of bankers that financed many artists during the Italian Renaissance. SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance 500 400 300 200 100

5. Who was Filippo Bruneleschi? MAIN He was the architect for the largest dome built during the Renaissance, which is still one of the largest built with natural materials. SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance 500 400 300 200 100

6. What was Neo-Platonism? MAIN This was the philosophy that flourished in Florence and was espoused by Marsilio Ficino, which stated that humans when inspired can transcend all limitations and strive for perfection or the ideal. 500 SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance 400 300 200 100

7. What The Prince, by Machiavelli? MAIN This was the book and political guide that stated, “It is better to be feared than loved” and “The end justifies the means”. SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance 500 400 300 200 100

8. Who was Ludovico il Moro of the Sforza family of Milan? MAIN He was the Italian despot who invited the French to invade Italy in order to defeat Naples and its allies in 1494. SUBJECT: Italian Personalities 500 400 300 200 100

9. MAIN Who was Girolamo Savonarola? He was the radical Dominican monk who expelled the Medici family from Florence and welcomed the France and was eventually executed. SUBJECT: Italian Personalities 500 400 300 200 100

10. Who were Boccaccio and Petrarch? MAIN The death of these two writers in 1374-75 signified to many historians the start of the Italian Renaissance. SUBJECT: Italian Personalities 500 400 300 200 100

11. Who was Baldassare Castigione MAIN He authored the “ Book of the Courtier” which detailed the qualities of a Renaissance gentleman and lady. SUBJECT: Italian Personalities 500 400 300 200 100

12. Who was Giotto? MAIN He was the Italian painter who used lightness and darkness (chiaroscuro) to create depth in his paintings and bridged the gap between Medieval and Renaissance styles. SUBJECT: Italian Personalities 500 400 300 200 100

13. What are the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Northern France ( Benelux)? MAIN These would be the modern countries that made up the area of Flanders. SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms 500 400 300 200 100

14. Who were The Brothers of the Common Life? MAIN This was the lay movement based in the Netherlands that supported the spread of humanism and humanist ideals. 500 SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms 400 300 200 100

15. Who was civic humanism? MAIN The term used to define the trend that Renaissance scholars should use their knowledge to help their communities and do what was good and right. SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms 500 400 300 200 100

16. What was the Donation of Constantine? MAIN The document exposed as a forgery by Lorenzo Valla, which supposedly gave the Papacy the lands of Italy to rule. SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms 500 400 300 200 100

17. What was mannerism? MAIN The Renaissance art that used emotion, passion and emphasized complexity and distortion as opposed to harmony, and the use of color. SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms 500 400 300 200 100

18. What was “Utopia”? MAIN This was the book written by Thomas More which describes an ideal society on an island in the Atlantic, where gold, silver and jewels have no value. SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance 500 400 300 200 100

19. Who were the Fuggers? MAIN This was the rich banking family from Augsburg who were patrons of the arts and financed Charles V’s bid to become the Holy Roman Emperor SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance 500 400 300 200 100

20. What was Religious Mysticism MAIN This was a tendency during the Northern Renaissance towards a personal religious experience with God without the church espoused by thinkers like Thomas a Kempis. SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance 500 400 300 200 100

21. What was Gutenberg’s Printing Press? MAIN This device helped spread the diverse humanist ideas and messages of religious reform of the Northern Renaissance. SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance 500 400 300 200 100

22. What was Miguel Cervantes’ Don Quixote? MAIN This was the book written by a former Spanish soldier and slave ( captured by Barbary pirates) that poked fun at chivalry and revealed insights into Spanish life. SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance 500 400 300 200 100

23. Who was Desiderius Erasmus? MAIN He is considered the greatest of the Northern Humanists who influenced Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin. SUBJECT: Northern Personalities 500 400 300 200 100

24. Who was Albrecht Durer? MAIN He was the “German Leonardo” who studied in Italy and painted portraits, as well as several self portraits and created elaborate wood and copper prints. SUBJECT: Northern Personalities 500 400 300 200 100

25. Who was Johann Reuchlin? MAIN He was Europe’s foremost authority on Hebrew and Jewish teachings who was criticized by Catholic scholars but was defended by German Humanists. SUBJECT: Northern Personalities 500 400 300 200 100

26. Who was Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros? MAIN He was the Spanish Catholic cleric who used humanist ideas to reform Catholic Spain by creating the University at Alcala and writing the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. SUBJECT: Northern Personalities 500 400 300 200 100

27. Who was Rudolf Agricola? MAIN He was known as the father of German Humanism and returned from Italy and introduced Italian humanist ideas to Germany. SUBJECT: Northern Personalities 500 400 300 200 100