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RENAISSANCE
Study Guide
(pp. 453-485)
THE EVOLUTION OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE:
1. When did the Renaissance occur?
2. __________________laid the material basis for the Italian Renaissance.
3. Define Renaissance:
4. What role did the cities of Genoa and Venice play?
5. Which industry fueled the increased expansion in trade, population, and profits?
6. How did Florence become so successful?
7. Define communes: popolo:
8. Define signori: oligarchies:
9. How was political power structured in Renaissance Italy?
The Balance of Power Among the Italian City-States
1. Identify the FIVE main powers and how they maintained power:
2. Define republic:
3. Identify the Medici family and their role in Florence:
4. Why was the concept of balance of power a major threat to Italy?
5. What modern concept did the Italians develop?
6. Identify Girolamo Savonarola:
7. Why did Italy suffer during the 16th century?
Intellectual Hallmarks of the Renaissance
1. Identify Francesco Petrarch:
2. Describe the concept of Individualism:
3. Provide examples of individualism:
4. Describe the concept of Humanism:
5. Provide examples of Humanism:
6. Describe the concept of Secularism:
7. Provide examples of Secularism:
Art and the Artist
1. “There were so many good critics there, for the air of the city makes men quick and
perceptive and impatient of ___________________.”
2. Identify the prevalent artist of the High Renaissance:
3. Explain how art and power manifested itself in Renaissance Italy:
4. Why and How did the status of the artist change?
5. Why was Michelangelo referred to as DIVINE? By whom?
6. Identify Lorenzo Ghiberti:
Social Change
1. What technological invention changed life forever?
2. Identify Baldassare Castiglione:
3. Identify Niccolo Machiavelli:
4. How and why is The Prince prevalent today?
5. Discuss the significance of the printing press?
6. How did the mechanical clock change culture?
7. What role did women play?
8. What role did slaves and people of other ethnicities play in Renaissance Italy?
The Renaissance in the North
1. How did the Renaissance in the North differ from Italy?
2. Identify Thomas More:
3. Identify Erasmus:
Politics and the State in the Renaissance
1. What basic institutions existed and laid the foundation for the modern nation state today?
2. “What pleases the prince has the force of _________________” --- Justinian Code
3. How did the Hundred Years’ War affect France?
4. Define gabelle: taille:
5. Identify the political and religious consequences of the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges:
6. What effect did the consequences have on the concept of power?
7. Identify the political structure in England? (where did power reside during this era)
8. How did Spain differ from France and England during the 14th Century?
9. Describe the political organization of Spain?