AP Euro Chapter 2 The Renaissance / Revised Questions and Answers / Sure A
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"Father of Humanism" - Francesco Petrarch- celebrated ancient Rome and wrote about Classical
and Christian values
2 families that ruled Milan - 1. Visconti
2. Sforza
3 great painters of the Renaissance - 1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. Raphael
3. Michelangelo
3 Medici Generations - 1. Giovanni Medic...
AP Euro Chapter 2 The Renaissance /
Revised Questions and Answers / Sure
A+
"Father of Humanism" - Francesco Petrarch- celebrated ancient Rome and wrote about Classical
and Christian values
2 families that ruled Milan - 1. Visconti
2. Sforza
3 great painters of the Renaissance - 1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. Raphael
3. Michelangelo
3 Medici Generations - 1. Giovanni Medici
2. Cosimo Medici - controlled the Signoria council
3. Lorenzo Medici the Magnificent - totalitarian
4. Lorenzo again (regain control of Florence)
4 social groups in Florence - 1. Grandi (old rich merchant class)
2. Popolo grosso (new rich merchant class - challenged old rich for political power)
3. Middle burgher ranks (shop owners, professionals. Sided with new rich)
4. Popolo minuto (paupers, the non-wealthy)
5 main Italian city-states - 1. Duchy of Milan
2. kingdom of Naples
3. Papal states
4. Florence
5. Venice
, Alexander VI - The Borgia pope, assisted Louis XII (French king) in invading Italy
Bartholomew Dias - Portuguese explorer who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope
Bruni - Coined the term "humanist"
chiaroscuro and linear perspective - 2 new techniques that were prevalent in Renaissance art
Ciompi Revolt - 1378- lower-class laborers revolted in Florence, Italy
condottieri - Brokers who hired mercenary armies (ex: Medicis) to maintain control and permit
normal trade at all costs
Dante Alighieri - "Divine Comedy"
cornerstones of Italian vernacular literature
despotism - the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way (ex: Medicis
of Florence ruled with absolute power)
Details of Ciompi Revolt - Caused by fighting between old/new rich, the Black Death, and the
collapse of baking houses Bardi and Peruzzi.
*Poor ruled Florence for 4 years.
encomienda - a grant by Spanish authorities to a person to use a certain number of "Indians" to
work their fields
England's Renaissance culture - Lectures at Oxford and Cambridge helped instate humanism in
English learning. Thomas More was an especially famous English humanist; he wrote "Utopia."
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