Exam 10: Renaissance and Discovery

The great masters of the High Renaissance were ________.

In 1500,the title "duke of Romagna" was given to ________.

The first humanists were ________.

Explain in detail the rationale and methods used in the French invasion of Italy.Were the French successful? What effect did the French invasion have on different Italian states?

Cosimo de' Medici brought stability to which city after his rise to power in 1434?

A new alliance between monarchs and ________ helped break the bonds of feudal society.

What was the primary reason Spanish explorers sailed the Atlantic Ocean?

The appeal of ________ lay in its flattering view of human nature,which distinguished between an eternal sphere of being and the perishable world in which humans actually lived.

What caused the Florentines to finally execute Savonarola in 1498?

European voyages of discovery and conquest provided several profound biological impacts on Native Americans,including the ________.

________ 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 ________.

A(n)________ is the formal grant of the right to the labor of a specific number of Indians.

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

How did the Spanish conquerors create a Spanish world empire? Cortés took over the Aztecs in Mexico.Pizarro conquered the Incas in Peru.How were they able to take over these powerful people in such a short amount of time? Explain.

Who sponsored Genoese adventurer Christopher Columbus?

Which of the following comprised Florence's popolo grosso in the Renaissance?

In what way did the humanist movement lead to the Reformation? What influence did academic freedom have on the laity? Did good scholarship change the views of the people? Explain.

Because despots could not count on the loyalty of the divided populace,they operated through mercenary armies obtained through military brokers known as ________.

An agreement called the ________,reached in 1356 by Emperor Charles IV and the major German territorial rulers,established a seven-member electoral college to administer the German empire.