AP Euro Western Heritage Chapter 2 Test 1 Herrmann

Which of the following cities played a key role in the trade between Europe and the Near East?

Venice

Medieval Europe was a feudal society that had an?

agricultural economy and was dominated by the church

Cosimo de' Medici brought stability to which city after his rise to power in 1434

florence

The first humanists were

orators and poets

Who was known as the father of humanism

petrarch

Which of the following was the most important intellectual recovery made during the Renaissance?

Greek studies

The great masters of the High renaissance were

da vinci, raphael, michelangelo

Who is considered the father of renaissance painting

giotto

whose most famous painting is the mona lisa

da vinci

the term machiavellian has become synonymous with

ruthless political expediency

a new alliance between monarchs and ____ helped break the bonds of feudal society

townspeople

King Louis XI shared conquered burgundian lands with

habsburg emperor maximilian I

who sponsored genose adventurer christopher columbus?

isabella and ferdinand of spain

one way in which the northern humanst desiderius erasmus gained fame as a religious reformer was by

editing the works of the church fathers

Humanism prepared the way for protestant reforms in which of thee following countries

england france germany

what english humanist wrote a famous Utopia

thomas more

columbus thought his first landfall was

japan

by the time of the spanish conquest the aztecs ruled almost all of

central mexico

___was by far the most effective and outspoken critic of the spanish conquerors

bartolome de las casas

the ___ of the west indies and brazil became the major center for black slavery in the midsixteenth century

sugar plantations

medieval art tended to be abstract and formulaic whereas renaissance art showed

the natural world and human emotions

a new style of art called mannerism allowed the artist to include ___ in his or her work

the strange and the abnormal

Which of the following expresses a viewpoint held by machivelli

italian political unity and independence were ends that justified any means

the primary reason monarchs sought out new sources of income in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was the ___

growing cost of welfare

what caused the secure government of france created by Louis XI to become a defeated nation under his successors

bad foreign policy

who was a close friend of erasmus

thomas more

the portuguese exploration of the african coast started out as a search for gold and slaves, but by the centurys end it had established

a sea route around africa to asias spice markets

what was the primary reason spanish explorers sailed the atlantic ocean

to find a shorter route to the east indies

european voyages of discovery and conquest provided several profound biological impacts on native americans including the

spread of measles and smallpox

renaissance art was much more likely than medieval art to attempt to represent

what we see