What Do You Know About Italian Renaissance Flashcards

What do you know about the Italian Renaissance? Cultural and architectural achievements in Europe marked this period. There is much about this period that shaped the country we know as Italy. Take a look at flashcards below and get to see just how much you will learn about this period, facts and all. All the best!

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Medeival europe was a feudal society with an agricultural economy and domination by the church whereas renaissance europe was characteried by a.....
Growing national consciousness and political centralization
Which of the following cities played a key role in the trade between europe and the near east
Venice
Endemic warfare between the pope and the holy roman emperor:
Assisted the growth of italian city-states
Had uniterrupted trade with the near east throughout the middle ages, while maintaining a vibrant urban society
Pisa
Social strife and competion for the political power became so intense within the cities that most evolved into:
Despotisms
List of the major social groups that existed within florence:
Nobles and merchants, new merchnat class, middle-burgher, and lower economic classes
Occured in 1378 as a result of the unbearable conditions for those at the bottom of society and the disruption caused by the Black Death:
Ciompi revolt
Cosimo de medici brought stability to this city after his rise to power in 1434
Florence
First humanists were:
Orators and poets
"father of humanism"
Franceso petrach
Which of the following was the most important intellectual recovery made during the italian renaissance
Greek studies
How did valla become a hero to protestant reformers
His defense of predestination against the advocates of free will
True or false: art tended to be abstract and formulaic
False
Great masters of the high renaissance were:
Leaonardo da vinci, raphael, michaelangelo
"father of reniassance painting"
Giotto