Chapters 5-9

What does the word "Mona" in Mona Lisa indicate?

Who was the first of the Classical humanists in the Age of the Renaissance, and the so-called "father of humanism?"

Which of the following statements about medieval towns is FALSE?

Why was the Protestant Reformation of such landmark significance?

Which was the earliest of the Meso-American societies?

What is a major difference between Christian cathedrals and Hindu temples?

"The Great Schism" refers to what event?

What form did the landmark literature of the Germanic tribes take?

What was the earliest West African kingdom?

The Bayeux Tapestry recorded which historical event?

What practice enjoyed a Golden Age during the Tang and Song eras?

An important center of learning in Charlemagne's time was the palace-school at ______.

Which of the following was NOT essential to the medieval synthesis

Which city was the greatest of the early West African trading centers and the seat of a Muslim university?

Who was the thirteenth-century merchant whose sojourn at the court of Mongol China was recorded in Il Milione?

The Battle of Hastings is famously recorded in what landmark work?

In African cultural history, what was the function of the griot?

From where did medieval liturgical drama originate?

Which of the following was NOT among the landmarks of Tang and Song China?

The writings of which classical philosopher had the greatest influence on the rise of medieval scholasticism?

"The Black Death" was a pandemic caused by what?

Which of the following features did NOT differentiate Gothic cathedrals from Romanesque?

What description of medieval feudalism in Europe is true?

The Spanish troops led by Cortes were most critical of what Aztec cultural feature?

During the High Renaissance, where was there a shift of the center of artistic productivity?

What was a feature in the tradition of medieval courtly love?

What does the name Ars nova describe?

Main difference between humanism of Italy and that of Northern Europe was the greater ________ emphasis of the latter.

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is unusual what regard?

In 1453, the city of Constantinople was captured by which empire?

Who was the medieval serf?

In The Prince, what objective did Machiavelli advocate for?

Where were the world's first printed books produced?

What characteristic was especially important to the African kinship system?

The Hundred Years' War was instigated by what circumstance?

On what did the Carolingian renaissance greatly depend?

Shakespeare modeled his own sonnets after those written by which author?

To what does the word "caravel" refer?

How did Saint Francis differ from the monastics that preceded him?

The Magna Carta was significant in that it led to what development?

Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of African music?

The university at Bologna, one of the first of the medieval universities, was dedicated primarily to the study of ______

What cultural aspect deeply influenced the intellectual elite of Tang and Song China?

In which city did Calvin establish a theocratic state?

What was an effect of the printing press, during the Northern Renaissance?

What is a way that the Church enforced religious conformity in the medieval period?

What resulted from the Battle of Adrianople?

What religion, important in the development of African culture, is the belief that spirits inhabit all things in nature?

What work, considered the world's first novel, tells a detailed story of aristocratic daily life?

Medieval Europeans were the first to develop all EXCEPT which of the following musical innovations?

What were games of combat imitating medieval warfare called?

The English left France, ending the 100 Years' War, after facing a revitalized French army under who's leadership?

Which of the following was characteristic of the religious rituals of the Maya and Aztecs?

What is the literary landmark and notable epic of ancient Mali?

Luther asserted that the key to salvation was what act?

What characteristic is generally associated with music of the Age of the Renaissance?

What was the primary subject of a chanson de geste?

Which of the following writers provided a defense of women in the Book of the City of Ladies?

Four major pilgrimage routes linked cities in France with what favorite shrine of Christian pilgrims?

What is a characteristic of early medieval Western books?

Who were the only indigenous people of the Americas known to have produced a written language?

What was a result of the Black Death?

Which of the following statements about twelfth-century troubadours is FALSE?

8th century landmark work, features interlace design, a unique pattern seen often in Germanic art from this era?

Luther posted his landmark Ninety-Five Theses on a cathedral door in which city?

What is the dominant element in African music?

What was a goal of the Crusades?

Japanese samurai abided by a warrior code known as ______.

Most Gothic churches were dedicated to which figure?

What was unique about Botticelli's landmark painting, Birth of Venus?