Medieval World Ch 28-29 Review
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Chapter 28
1. What three time periods were discussed in this chapter?
2. Which two time periods are closely related?
3. What does renaissance mean?
4. What new type of economy was developed during the Renaissance?
5. How did an increase in trade impact Europe?
6. What geographic factor made Italy become so wealthy?
7. What did humanists believe about people’s abilities?
8. What two institutions did humanists believe should be separated?
Chapter 29
9. List four famous artists/philosophers who lived in Florence.
10. What was the major industry in Florence?
11. Where did Florentine architects get their inspiration and ideas?
12. What invention made it possible to get materials and food to workers on the top of the Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore?
13. What techniques did Renaissance artists discover to create perspective?
14. What differences were there in Medieval and Renaissance paint?
15. Both Michelangelo and Donatello created the same statue. Who was it of? Whose is considered better?
16. What does secular mean?
17. What changes in writing allowed more people to read writers work?
18. What is the title of Dante Alighieri’s famous poem?
19. What two aspects of science did Galileo and other Renaissance scientists emphasize, leading to modern science?
20. What family ruled Florence for nearly three centuries?
21. What did Machiavelli say about politics in his book The Prince?
22. What were the names of the two markets?
23. Name the famous artwork or scientific achievement of the following Renaissance figures:
a. Sandro Botticelli g. Leonardo da Vinci
c. Dante Alighieri
e. Niccolo Machiavelli
f. Michelangelo