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Renaissance Study Guide:
1. Why was Italy more urban than many other parts of Europe during the Renaissance?
2. Who controlled the Papal States?
3. What were the 5 different individual states in Italy that we saw during the Renaissance?
4. Who controlled Milan?
5. Who ran Venice?
6. Who was Savonarola? How did he gain power? Lose power?
7. What was the time span for the Italian Renaissance?
8. How was society characterized during the Renaissance?
9. How did humanism help define the Italian Renaissance?
10. What does humanism study?
11. How was education during the Renaissance shaped by the Renaissance?
12. How did humanism influence the works of Renaissance artists and authors?
13. How did the lack of a single strong ruler benefit Italy during the Renaissance?
14. Why did Florence enjoy a flourishing of the arts in the 1400s?
15. What could fresco artists convey that medieval painters could not? How does their work embody
characteristics of humanism?
16. How did the fact that other countries in Europe had strong rulers affect Italy’s fate? Compare and
contrast the king of Spain’s treatment of Italy with that of the king of France.
17. How did the demand for goods affect both the power of the Italian states and the Catholic Church?
18. Who was Machiavelli? What did he argue? What did he write?
19. List the different artists (painters, sculptors, architects) named in your readings and their works.
Protestant Reformation Study Guide:
1. How did humanism contradict medieval attitudes toward Christianity?
2. What was the Modern Devotion?
3. What was Christian humanism?
4. Who was Erasmus? What did he write?
5. How did Martin Luther’s attitude toward good works contradict Erasmus’s philosophy of Christ?
6. What is the Peace of Augsburg?
7. Who was Zwingli? What city/country is he associated with? What reforms did he conduct?
8. How is the concept of predestination tied to the dynamic (rapid) growth of the Calvinist faith?
9. What were the Anabaptists’ core beliefs?
10. What role did the Bible play in Protestant faiths? In the Roman Catholic faith?
11. What was the Council of Trent? When?
12. What were Protestants protesting against?
13. Why did the German peasants expect Luther to support their revolt?
14. What benefits, if any, did the revolt against the Catholic Church lead to for Catholicism?
15. How did the Protestant Reformation affect the Jewish populations of Europe?