The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Age of Exploration

Question 1

What English royal first moved England from the Catholic Church to the Protestant?

Accepted Answer

Henry VIII

Question 2

Who painted The Adoration of the Magi in about 1482?

Accepted Answer

Botticelli

Question 3

What amerindian empire was located in Peru?

Accepted Answer

Inca

Question 4

How did classical ideas influence Renaissance architecture?

Accepted Answer

Renaissance buildings had Greek and Roman inspired features, Renaissance buildings had arches, columns, and domes, Renaissance buildings were modeled on ancient ruins

Question 5

Who painted the School of Athens?

Accepted Answer

Raphael

Question 6

Which of the following was introduced to the "Old World" from the "New World"?

Accepted Answer

Tomatoes

Question 7

Queen Elizabeth I had __________ children.

Accepted Answer

zero

Question 8

What city was controlled by the wealthy Medici family starting in 1434?

Accepted Answer

Florence

Question 9

Which of the following was one factor that led to the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Traders brought classical ideas and goods to Europe

Question 10

What intellectual movement during the Renaissance focused on education and the classics?

Accepted Answer

Humanism

Question 11

In what region did the northern Renaissance begin?

Accepted Answer

Flanders

Question 12

What European established the sea route to Asia?

Accepted Answer

Vasco de Gama

Question 13

What does the word "renaissance" mean?

Accepted Answer

Rebirth

Question 14

Who owned the most land in Europe before the Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Church

Question 15

What amerindian empire had largely collapsed before contact with Europeans?

Accepted Answer

Maya

Question 16

Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo

Question 17

What was Michelangelo’s David created from?

Accepted Answer

Marble

Question 18

Queen Mary I was a devout ________________ and expected her people to follow her lead.

Accepted Answer

Catholic

Question 19

What technique did Durer innovate and perfect?

Accepted Answer

Etching

Question 20

The Renaissance marked the transition from ___________________ times to the early modern world.

Accepted Answer

Medieval

Question 21

How did Italy’s location help make it the starting point of the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Its location allowed trade with the Muslim world

Question 22

Who invented the printing press in 1455?

Accepted Answer

Johann Gutenberg

Question 23

Who assembled a library of Greek and Roman works preserving books of Cicero, Homer, and Virgil?

Accepted Answer

Francesco Petrarch

Question 24

Renaissance thinkers were interested in the classical learning of _______and ______.

Accepted Answer

Greece and Rome

Question 25

Who wrote The Divine Comedy?

Accepted Answer

Dante

Question 26

What was the language of both the church and scholarship during the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Latin

Question 27

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Accepted Answer

Leonardo

Question 28

What German painter was dubbed the “Leonardo of the North”?

Accepted Answer

Albrecht Durer

Question 29

On how many of his four voyages did Christopher Columbus visit what is now the USA?

Accepted Answer

Zero

Question 30

What was the southern tip of South Africa called?

Accepted Answer

Cape of Good Hope

Question 31

What Dutch priest and humanist produced a new Greek edition of the Christian Bible?

Accepted Answer

Desiderius Erasmus

Question 32

Calvin is most famous for teaching the doctrine of ________________.

Accepted Answer

predestination

Question 33

In what country did the Renaissance begin?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 34

What famous Renaissance artist created a David before Michelangelo?

Accepted Answer

Donatello

Question 35

Which conquistador subdued the people of Peru?

Accepted Answer

Francisco Pizarro

Question 36

Martin Luther wrote his __________ challenging Tetzel and the selling of indulgences.

Accepted Answer

95 Theses

Question 37

Europe circa 1500 CE was almost entirely

Accepted Answer

Catholic

Question 38

Who wrote the handbook The Book of the Courtier?

Accepted Answer

Baldassare Castiglione

Question 39

The second leg, or ______________, brought Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves.

Accepted Answer

Middle Passage

Question 40

Which Spanish conquistador lead the expedition to conquer the Aztecs in what is now Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Hernan Cortes

Question 41

What does this image from Leonardo’s notebooks represent?

Accepted Answer

Four Wheeled Armored Tank

Question 42

What established the Line of Demarcation in 1494 dividing the world between Spain and Portugal?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 43

What country was Henry the Navigator from?

Accepted Answer

Portugal

Question 44

What did most Portuguese colonists go to Brazil?

Accepted Answer

To get gold and silver

Question 45

How was The Divine Comedy an example of humanist art?

Accepted Answer

All are correct

Question 46

Most of the Africans enslaved by Europeans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade came from

Accepted Answer

West Africa

Question 47

What change made literature more popular during the Renaissance than it had been before?

Accepted Answer

Writers wrote in their vernacular

Question 48

New France, or _____________, was established in the 1500s.

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 49

What country did Christopher Columbus sail for?

Accepted Answer

Spain

Question 50

New France stretched from Quebec all the way down to _______________

Accepted Answer

New Orleans

Question 51

Most of the early French settlers in the New World were __________________.

Accepted Answer

fur trappers and traders

Question 52

What industries helped Florence become the center of the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Woolen-cloth and banking

Question 53

By the end of the 1600s _____________ dominated the slave trade.

Accepted Answer

England

Question 54

How many times was King Henry VIII married?

Accepted Answer

Six

Question 55

Who was the second most influential Reformation leader, after Martin Luther?

Accepted Answer

John Calvin

Question 56

Who lead the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe?

Accepted Answer

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 57

Which of the following was a motive for the Portuguese and Spanish to explore the world?

Accepted Answer

To break the hold Muslims and Italians had on trade.

Question 58

What feature did architect Filippo Brunelleschi create for the cathedral in his city?

Accepted Answer

Dome

Question 59

Which of these colonies was NOT founded as a safe place for a persecuted religious group?

Accepted Answer

Virginia

Question 60

condemned the encomienda system and detailed the horrors Spain had brought to Native Americans.

Accepted Answer

Bartolome de las Casas

Question 61

John Calvin spent most of his adult life in ____________________.

Accepted Answer

Geneva

Question 62

Which statement best describes the ideal woman according to writer Baldassare Castiglione?

Accepted Answer

Her outward beauty reflects her inner goodness.

Question 63

What type of ship was created by Portuguese explorers and then used by other countries?

Accepted Answer

Caravel

Question 64

How was Renaissance art different from the art of the Middle Ages?

Accepted Answer

It was more realistic & portrayed some nonreligious subjects

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