Exam 10: Renaissance and Discovery

What were the principal effects of the European voyages of "discovery"? Do you think these effects were,on the whole,positive or negative?

The ________ greatly helped reduce the need to go to war and allowed increased control over the enemy.

How did Valla become a hero to Protestant reformers?

In detail,explain the formation,rise to power,and control that despots had on Italian society in the fifteenth century.Was the rule subtle or blatant? Who were the main ruling families of this era? As a result of this rule,what other aspects of society were influenced? In what ways?

What did Machiavelli believe is the most important trait for a ruler? Did Machiavelli see the potential for this trait in any of his contemporaries? Do you agree with Machiavelli's ideas on governing? Explain.

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

Social strife and competition for political power became so intense within the cities that most evolved into ________.

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

Whose most famous painting is the Mona Lisa?

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.

What English humanist wrote a famous book called Utopia?

The primary reason monarchs sought out new sources of income in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was due to the ________.

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

Most scholars agree that the ________ (literally "rebirth" in French)was a time of transition from medieval to modern times.

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

After the Black Death reduced the supply of laborers everywhere in Western Europe,the demand for _________ soared.

Which of the following cities played a key role in the trade between Europe and the Near East?

By the fifteenth century,the great Italian cities acted as the ________ for much of Europe.

Medieval Europe was a feudal society that had a(n)________.

The monarchy of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain was an example of the emergence of ________ in the 1400s.