AP Euro Unit 1

Columbus sailed for the King of Portugal.

Smallpox killed around 90% of natives who were exposed to it.

Shakespeare's Othello deals with issues of race.

The "popolo minute" was the highest class in Florence.

Bartolome de las Casa's "Black Legend" was pro-native.

The Jesuits and other missionaries wanted to convert natives to Christianity.

Who made the following statement?

The French invasions of Italy in 1497 were caused by rivalry between city states.

Renaissance Humanism advocated an education in the arts, poetry, and history.

Erasmus was an Italian humanist.

Renaissance art was proportional and symmetrical.

The "price revolution" was characterized by inflation.

All slaves in Renaissance Europe were from Africa.

The "New Monarchies" attempted to subdue the nobility to increase their power.

Who painted this?

The pope was a patron of the arts.

During the Renaissance, women were usually encouraged to work outside the home.

Who wrote the following:

Renaissance art was mostly secular.

Who wrote the following?

The Black Death ultimately improved lives for for the peasants who survived.

Flemish painters were part of the Italian Renaissance.

Scholasticism replaced Humanism by the end of the Renaissance.

The Medici family made their fortune in banking.

Erasmus critized monks in his writing "In Praise of Folly".

Mercantilism allowed free trade for colonies.

Petrarch believed the society of antiquity was superior to his own.