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This 14th-century Florentine is

considered the “father” of Humanism in Renaissance Italy.

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Who is Petrarch?

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This philosopher wrote On the Dignity of Man and believed humans

were capable of achieving great things.

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Who is Pico Della Mirandola?

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This Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII wrote Utopia,

a view of an ideal society based on

Renaissance ideals.

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Who is Thomas More?

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The Courtier, written by this diplomat, was the

most important work on courtly behavior and

the ideal of the quintessential

Renaissance man.

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Who is Baldassare Castiglione?

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This Frenchman’s development of the essay

form and his ideas of skepticism made him an important figure in the

late Renaissance.

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Who is Michel de Montaigne?

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This long war between England and France

resulted in England’s loss of nearly all its French territories.

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What is the Hundred

Years’ War?

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This young peasant quasi-military leader helped the French defeat England in the Hundred Year’s War.

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Who is

Joan of Arc?

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The mutinous armies of this

emperor sacked Rome in 1527.

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Who isCharles V?

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This late-fifteenth century struggle

between two noble families led to the rise of the Tudor Dynasty

in England.

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What is the

War of the Roses?

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This policy resulted in the expulsion of

Moors and Jews from Spain in the late-15th

century.

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What is the reconquista?

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This sculptor created in the 15th century the first

bronze statue since antiquity.

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Who is Donatello?

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Michelangelo built a huge dome atop this basilica for the pope

in the early-16th century.

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Basilica?

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This technique was developed by Giotto to create 3-D effects. He used contrasts of light

and dark colors.

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This master of perspective built in Florence the then-

largest dome in the world, known as Il

Duomo.

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Who is Brunelleschi?

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This German was the foremost Northern

Renaissance artist, a master of the

woodcut.

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Who is Albrecht Dürer?

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This “arachnid” monarch in France

created a royal army and suppressed the nobility in the late-fifteenth century.

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Who is Louis XI (the “Spider

King”)?

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These two monarchs united Spain in the

late 15th century and established the

Reconquista.

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Who are Ferdinand and

Isabella?

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This French ruler instituted the taille and took power of appointing bishops

away from the Church in the Concordat of

Bologna (1516).

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Who is Francis I?

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This late-15th century Tudor used the Star Chamber to reduce the power of

the nobility.

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Who is Henry VII?

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This ruler, though not really a “new monarch,” led both the Spanish and

Austrian Hapsburg branches and was the

most powerful European ruler of the 16th century.

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Who is

Charles V?

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This northern humanist wrote a

powerful critique of Catholic Church

abuses in In Praise of Folly.

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Who is Erasmus?

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This turn-of-the-16th-century pontiff was the

most worldly and corrupt of the

Renaissance popes. He was a huge patron of

Renaissance Art.

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Who is Alexander VI?

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This fourteenth century English theologian

believed the Church should only follow

scripture. His followers were the Lollards.

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Who is

John Wyclif?

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This leading French humanist produced five versions of the Psalms

that challenged a single authoritative version of

the Bible.

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Who is Jacques Lefevre

d’Etables?

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This popular monk took control of Florence in the

1490s and created a theocratic republic hoping

to clean up immorality and corruption. He was

later burned alive!

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Who is Girolamo

Savonarola?

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This Portuguese explorer was the first to round the Cape of

Good Hope in southern Africa.

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Who is Bartholomeu

Dias?

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This conquistador subdued the

Aztecs in 1521.

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Who is

Hernán Cortés?

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This Portuguese explorer was the first European to find an all-water route to

India.

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Who is Vasco da Gama?

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This Portuguese royal invested large sums of

money in the mid-fifteenth century to

fund expeditions down the western coast of

Africa.

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Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

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This edict issued by the Pope in 1494 divided the world between

Spain and Portugal by drawing a line down the middle of the Atlantic

Ocean.

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What is the Treaty of

Tordesillas?

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This non-native Spanish painter was the most

well-known of the Mannerists; his

masterpiece was The Burial of Count Orgaz.

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