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Chapter Ten: Renaissance and Discovery Terms
Remember to identify both the (D)efinition and the (S)ignificance for each of the following terms.
Four Tenants of the Renaissance:
Humanism
Individualism
Secularism
Return to antiquity
Machiavelli The Prince
Printing press
Despotism
Diplomacy
War of the Roses
Pope Alexander (connect to the Borgia family)
Pope Julius II
Charles VIII (connect to Italy)
Slavery in the Renaissance
Medici Family
Northern Renaissance
Erasmus
Sir Thomas More
Oligarchy
Patronage
Christine De Pisan
Italian city-states
Hundred Years’ War
Name:_______________________________________ Hour: ___ AP European History – Mr. W.B. Brooks
Chapter 10 - Renaissance and Discovery
1. Summarize Jacob Burckhardt’s interpretation of the Renaissance?
a. Provide one example of a criticism that has been leveled against his
interpretation?
b. What did the Renaissance mean in the context of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century
Italy?
2. After reading and discussing this chapter how would you define Renaissance humanism?
Provide at least two specific examples in your definition.
3. In what ways was the Renaissance
a. a break with the Middle Ages (provide two specific examples)
b. and in what ways did it owe its existence to medieval civilization (provide two
specific examples)?
4. Who were some of the famous literary and artistic figures of the Italian Renaissance?
Be sure to identify their famous pieces next to their names.
Artistic Figure
Literary Figure
5. What did the famous literary and artistic figures have in common that might be
described as “the spirit of the Renaissance”?
6. Why did the French invade Italy in 1494?
a. How did this event trigger Italy’s political decline?
b. How did the actions of Pope Julius II and the ideas of Niccolo Machiavelli signify
a new era in Italian civilization?
7. How did the Renaissance in the north differ from the Italian Renaissance? Provide two
examples of how they are similar and two of how they were different.
Similar
Different
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a. Provide two examples of why Erasmus was the embodiment the Northern
Renaissance?
9. Identify two factors that led to the voyages of discovery?
a. Why were the Portuguese interested in finding a route to the East?
b. Why did Columbus sail west across the Atlantic in 1492
Name:_______________________________________ Hour: ___ AP European History – Mr. W.B. Brooks
One-Pager: What is the economic link between art and innoviation?
Research: SOAPS
Speaker
Occasion
Audience
Purpose
Summary
Argument and Evidence
Discussion Notes:
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Reflection: How has your view changed? Explain.