Renaissance thru Limited Monarchy

Question 1

Which 15th century scientist developed the heliocentric model?

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Copernicus

Question 2

Which scientist supported encouraged Galileo to publish his ideas, and verified his work with complex math?

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Kepler

Question 3

More writers during the Renaissance were writing in everyday languages, called ____________, rather than in Latin.

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vernacular

Question 4

Like Louis XIV, Peter the Great also

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created a network of spies to over his nobles

Question 5

Which close friend and advisor of King Henry VIII was beheaded for challenging him?

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Thomas More

Question 6

Which of the following was NOT a motive for European exploration of the 15th and 16th centuries?

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to find foreign labor and import it into Europe

Question 7

Which of the following was NOT a crop that was new to the Europeans in the 1500s?

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coffee

Question 8

The conflict between the Catholic majority and the Huguenot minority in France reached a peak with the

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the Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Question 9

What was Potosi?

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A huge silver mine in South America

Question 10

Which Renaissance sailor was the first to reach the Indian Ocean?

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da Gama

Question 11

Who were "peninsulares" in the Americas?

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European governors sent to rule the colonies

Question 12

Who was the early Renaissance writer who celebrated individualism and human worth in his writings?

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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Question 13

What island became an important sugar colony for the English?

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Jamaica

Question 14

Which treaty prevented conflict between Spain and Portugal in South America?

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The Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 15

Which group invaded and conquered Constantinople in 1453?

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Ottomans

Question 16

Which of the following was NOT an important cash crop for colonial American plantation owners?

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potatoes

Question 17

Which medieval European philosophy resulted in improved literary analysis and the application of the use of reason?

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scholasticism

Question 18

This Renaissance philosophy developed, based on the idea that individuals could perfect their talents:

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humanism

Question 19

Philip II of Spain was NOT known for

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the Spanish defeat of the English navy in 1588

Question 20

Who is known as a "Renaissance Man" because of his many talents (painting, sculpting, poetry, engineering, and more)?

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Leonardo da Vinci

Question 21

Poor landless peasants rose up against their landlords during the Protestant Reformation's

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Peasant Wars

Question 22

The growing merchant class supported education of their children and were supporters, or ___________, of the arts.

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patrons

Question 23

What is the policy whereby a country uses a colony to enrich itself?

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mercantilism

Question 24

What law did Henry VIII have passed that made him head of the English churches?

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Act of Supremacy

Question 25

Which of the following of the Roman Catholic Church's practice did NOT generally upset people in Europe?

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the eucharist

Question 26

Which area was the birthplace, or beginning area, or the Renaissance?

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Italian peninsula

Question 27

As manorialism declined, monarchs increased their powers by entering into deals called _______________ with townspeople.

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charters

Question 28

Historians estimate WHAT % of native Americans died between 1500 and 1800?

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90%

Question 29

Roughly how many Africans were taken as slaves and transported across the Atlantic?

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13 million

Question 30

By the year 1400, the population of Europe was recovering and growing rapidly due to

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improved food production

Question 31

Which poet and author of letters is considered the "Father of Humanism"?

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Francesco Petrarco

Question 32

What learning center was developed in England for the exchange and research of scientific ideas?

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The Royal Society

Question 33

What important colony were the Dutch able to make?

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Indonesia

Question 34

What positive impact did the Crusades have on Western Europe?

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It triggered trade and cultural diffusion

Question 35

"The Prince", which discussed how men use their political power, was written by which Renaissance political thinker?

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Nicolo Machiavelli

Question 36

Which of the following was not one of Luther's key arguments?

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People should reject the sacraments

Question 37

Renaissance painter Rafael di Sanzio painted which fresco of ancient Greek philosophers gathered in discussion?

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The School of Athens

Question 38

Increased trade in Europe as a result of the Crusades led to

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cultural diffusion

Question 39

During the Renaissance, learning focused on more worldly, or _______________, things.

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secular

Question 40

Which city became Peter's "window on the West"?

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St. Peterburg

Question 41

The idea most closely connected to the term "divine right" absolutism is

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Mandate of Heaven

Question 42

BONUS!! Which powerful banking family in Florence was a patron of the arts?

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Medici

Question 43

The Renaissance was so named by historians because of

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a revival of Greco-Roman values

Question 44

Which was the trial of Martin Luther?

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The Diet of Worms

Question 45

Which 16th century English monarch wisely increased investment in the English navy?

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Elizabeth Tudor

Question 46

By the 1200s, the growth of market towns and the return of banking and a money economy, became known as

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the Commercial Revolution

Question 47

Which new group of priests and missionaries was created in order to convert more people to Catholicism?

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the Jesuits

Question 48

The Scientific Revolution happened during the Renaissance because

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the Renaissance promoted inquisitiveness and the use of reason

Question 49

What was the trade called between Europeans, Africans, and the American colonists?

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The Triangle Trade

Question 50

Which of the following did Louis XIV NOT spend a lot of money on?

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Investing in institutes for the study of various religions

Question 51

Peter's overall goal for Russia was

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borrowing Western European ideas and trends in order to modernize Russia

Question 52

Which Renaissance scientist was forced by the Roman Catholic Church to retract his publications on astronomy?

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Galileo Galilei

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