most of Europe because in Italian city-states monopoly of trade in Mediterranean areas
2. The republicanism of the city-states proved there was no tradition of republicanism in
precarious for all of the following reasons the region and, therefore, its roots were
EXCEPT never very deep
3. The chivalric code that had expressed social ambition and achievement, especially in
values in the Middle Ages was changed in the politics, business, and art, were recognized
Renaissance so that as components of honor
4. Which of the following wrote texts that all of the above
challenged traditional views of female
potential?
5. In the Oration on the Dignity of Man, Giovanni the mastery of nature was within the grip of
Pico della Mirandola suggested man
6. In relation to Italian humanists, Northern were similar in their devotion to ancient
humanists learning; however, they related it primarily to
religious goals
7. Erasmus (c. 1466-1536) argued that God's will is revealed directly in the Bible
8. In contrast to Spanish humanism, English involved both religious and political figures
humanism
9. Humanist support for the new princely ideal The Book of the Courtier
of peace and security was reflected in
10. French thinker Michel de Montaigne (1533- argued that one can know little or nothing
1592) with certainty
11. ________ played the most important role in Erasmus
making humanism an international movement
12. A major reason why the Renaissance began region's surplus of wealth, to support
in northern Italy was the learning, culture, and the arts
13. The Peace of Lodi, concluded in 1454, France
involved all of the following EXCEPT
14. Venice was able to maintain republican it had a strong republican constitution
government longer than other cities because
15. Upper-class women in Italian cities enjoyed greater freedom in greater numbers
than they had since the classical period
16. The attitude of Renaissance humanists humanists valued the classics for their own
toward antiquity differed from the attitude of sake and as a guide to the good life
medieval scholars in that
17. Machiavelli is often considered the founder of tried to understand and explain statecraft
modern political thought, because he independent of Christian morality
18. The invention of the printing press was accompanied by aggressive censorship
by political authorities
19. Medieval Muslim civilization grew prosperous from a flourishing trade
throughout the Mediterranean