Exam 10: Renaissance and Discovery

The ________ of the West Indies and Brazil became the major center for black slavery in the mid-sixteenth century.

During an assembly in Worms in 1495, Emperor Maximilian allowed the members to create ________.

Renaissance art was much more likely than medieval art to attempt to represent ________.

Ludovico of Milan's fatal mistake was that he ________.

What caused the Florentines to finally execute Savonarola in 1498?

Who sponsored Genoese adventurer Christopher Columbus?

________ was by far the most effective and outspoken critic of the Spanish conquerors.

One way in which the northern humanist Desiderius Erasmus gained fame as a religious reformer was by ________.

What occurred in 1378 as a result of the unbearable conditions for those at the bottom of society and the disruption caused by the Black Death?

What caused the secure government of France created by Louis XI to become a defeated nation under his successors?

The Concordat of Bologna helped to keep France Catholic after the breakout of the ________.

Which of the following ideas was held to be true in both Renaissance Italy and in Reformation Europe?

By the time of the Spanish conquest, the Aztecs ruled almost all of ________.

Humanism prepared the way for Protestant reforms in which of the following countries?

"It is better to will the good than to know the truth." These words from Petrarch's teaching became the motto of many later humanists.In your own words, explain the context of this quote.How did it influence later humanists? What is dangerous about knowing the truth? How is ignorance also its own danger? Which would be your preference? Explain.

The Spanish voyages of discovery can be seen as an outgrowth of _______.

Examine the excerpt from Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man.How significant is the choice outlined in this excerpt? Are the basic opinions limited? Do they differ from what the church thought life's limits and options were? Is the concept of freedom in this passage a modern one? What do you believe is Mirandola's definition of "free will"? Explain.

In detail, describe the impact of the printing press.What economic, social, religious, and political movements did this invention stir? Some would argue that the invention of the printing press had as intense an impact in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries as the invention of the Internet in late twentieth century.In your opinion, which had a more sweeping effect on all aspects of society? Explain.

Which of the following cities had uninterrupted trade with the Near East throughout the Middle Ages?

What did Pope Alexander VI hope to gain by securing a friendship with the French king?