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Council Rock High School South
Mr. Jacoby
AP European History
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DVD on RENAISSANCE
1. What are a couple of reasons for the Renaissance to begin in Italy?
2. What does the term Renaissance mean?
3. What was the Middle Ages dominated by?
4. What did the Church do with new ideas that appeared during the Middle Ages?
5. What did the humanists oppose about religion?
6. Why is Petrarch an important figure?
7. What does it appear that Lorenzo Valla was able to do/show as a contributor to the
Renaissance?
8. What did the Printing Press make possible? What was the impact?
9. What was exceptional about the de Medici family in Florence?
10. What was Lorenzo de Medici’s goal for his Platonic academy?
11. Compare Italy to other areas of Europe at the time of Renaissance.
12. Why do you think that the Renaissance would surely spread throughout Europe north of
Italy?
13. What did Northern Humanists such as Erasmus expect from the Church?
14. What did more radical scholars like Luther expect from the Church?
15. What did the likes of Calvin, Zwingli and Henry VIII all have in common?
16. What is The Thirty Years War to the period of religious violence?
17. The violence of the Church and issues with the Church in the 15th and 16th Centuries lead
to what view of people like Voltaire in the 18th Century?
18. What view did some philosophers have of Christianity as a result of this violent period?
19. What did it seem the relationship between Italian merchants and bankers in Italy and the
likes of the Hanseatic League in Germany led to?
20. What did Machiavelli describe in his book The Prince?
21. The period of Renaissance is also a period of exploration. Why is that?
22. Strangely, it is ancient writings of Ptolomy that described the earth as round. What did
this lead to? (It should appear like a natural progression)
23. How is art a reflection of the thinking of the era (often leading to people to see art as the
best reflection of times)?
24. You should now have a copy of a famous painting of van Eyke in your home. How did it
get there?
25. Harmony, mathematics and balance led to the greatest of artists from the Renaissance.
What two men seemed to be the best examples of experts of the true Renaissance men?
26. How did music seem to be effected by the thinking of the Renaissance, too?
27. How did it seem that writing, too, became indicative of the massive transition from the old
ways to a new way of thinking?
28. How did it seem that Shakespeare’s villains were Machiavellian?
29. What did Renaissance scientists get people to start thinking?
30. How did it seem the Plague effect science?
31. What conclusion does it seem this film wants you to have?