Chapter Ten: Renaissance and Discovery Terms

Chapter Ten: Renaissance and Discovery Terms

Remember to identify both the (D)efinition and the (S)ignificance for each of the following terms.

Four Tenants of the Renaissance:

Humanism

Individualism

Secularism

Return to antiquity

Machiavelli The Prince

Printing press

Despotism

Diplomacy

War of the Roses

Pope Alexander (connect to the Borgia family)

Pope Julius II

Charles VIII (connect to Italy)

Slavery in the Renaissance

Medici Family

Northern Renaissance

Erasmus

Sir Thomas More

Oligarchy

Patronage

Christine De Pisan

Italian city-states

Hundred Years’ War

Name:______Hour: ___ AP European History – Mr. W.B. Brooks

Chapter 10 - Renaissance and Discovery

1. Summarize Jacob Burckhardt’s interpretation of the Renaissance?

a. Provide one example of a criticism that has been leveled against his
interpretation?

b. What did the Renaissance mean in the context of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century
Italy?

2. After reading and discussing this chapter how would you define Renaissance humanism?

Provide at least two specific examples in your definition.

3. In what ways was the Renaissance

a. a break with the Middle Ages (provide two specific examples)

b. and in what ways did it owe its existence to medieval civilization (provide two
specific examples)?

4. Who were some of the famous literary and artistic figures of the Italian Renaissance?
Be sure to identify their famous pieces next to their names.

5. What did the famous literary and artistic figures have in common that might be
described as “the spirit of the Renaissance”?

6. Why did the French invade Italy in 1494?

a. How did this event trigger Italy’s political decline?

b. How did the actions of Pope Julius II and the ideas of Niccolo Machiavelli signify
a new era in Italian civilization?

7. How did the Renaissance in the north differ from the Italian Renaissance? Provide two
examples of how they are similar and two of how they were different.

a. Provide two examples of why Erasmus was the embodiment the Northern
Renaissance?

9. Identify two factors that led to the voyages of discovery?

a. Why were the Portuguese interested in finding a route to the East?

b. Why did Columbus sail west across the Atlantic in 1492

Name:______Hour: ___ AP European History – Mr. W.B. Brooks

One-Pager: What is the economic link between art and innoviation?

Research: SOAPS

Argument and Evidence

Discussion Notes:

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Reflection: How has your view changed? Explain.