Transcript Unit 1 History Bowl

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Niccolo
Machiavelli
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Erasmus of
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Philosophy
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Visual Arts
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14 -century
This
Florentine is considered
the “father” of
Humanism in
Renaissance Italy.
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Who is
Petrarch?
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This philosopher wrote On
the Dignity of Man and
believed humans were
capable of achieving great
things.
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Who is Pico Della
Mirandola?
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This Lord Chancellor to
Henry VIII wrote Utopia, a
view of an ideal society
based on Renaissance
ideals.
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Who is
Thomas
More?
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The Courtier, written by
this diplomat, was the
most important work on
courtly behavior and the
ideal of the quintessential
Renaissance man.
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Who is
Baldassare
Castiglione?
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This Frenchman’s
development of the essay
form and his ideas of
skepticism made him an
important figure in the late
Renaissance.
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Who is Michel de
Montaigne?
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This long war between
England and France
resulted in England’s loss
of nearly all its French
territories.
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What is the
Hundred Years’
War?
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This young peasant quasimilitary leader helped the
French defeat England in
the Hundred Year’s War.
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Who is
Joan of Arc?
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The mutinous armies
of this emperor
sacked Rome in
1527.
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Who is
Charles V?
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This late-fifteenth century
struggle between two
noble families led to the
rise of the Tudor Dynasty
in England.
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What is the
War of the Roses?
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This policy resulted in
the expulsion of Moors
and Jews from Spain in
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the late-15 century.
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What is the
reconquista?
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This sculptor created
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in the 15 century the
first bronze statue
since antiquity.
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Who is
Donatello?
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Michelangelo built a
huge dome atop this
basilica for the pope in
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the early-16 century.
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What is St. Peter’s
Basilica?
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This technique was
developed by Giotto to
create 3-D effects. He
used contrasts of light
and dark colors.
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What is
chiaroscuro?
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This master of
perspective built in
Florence the then-largest
dome in the world,
known as Il Duomo.
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Who is
Brunelleschi?
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This German was the
foremost Northern
Renaissance artist, a
master of the woodcut.
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Who is Albrecht
Dürer?
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This “arachnid” monarch
in France created a royal
army and suppressed
the nobility in the latefifteenth century.
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Who is Louis XI
(the “Spider
King”)?
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These two monarchs
united Spain in the late
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15 century and
established the
Reconquista.
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Who are
Ferdinand and
Isabella?
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This French ruler
instituted the taille and
took power of appointing
bishops away from the
Church in the Concordat
of Bologna (1516).
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Who is Francis I?
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late-15
This
century
Tudor used the Star
Chamber to reduce the
power of the nobility.
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Who is
Henry VII?
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This ruler, though not really a
“new monarch,” led both the
Spanish and Austrian
Hapsburg branches and was
the most powerful European
ruler of the 16th century.
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Who is
Charles V?
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This northern humanist
wrote a powerful
critique of Catholic
Church abuses in In
Praise of Folly.
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Who is
Erasmus?
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This
century pontiff was the
most worldly and corrupt
of the Renaissance popes.
He was a huge patron of
Renaissance Art.
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Who is
Alexander VI?
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This fourteenth century
English theologian believed
the Church should only
follow scripture. His
followers were the Lollards.
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Who is
John Wyclif?
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This leading French
humanist produced five
versions of the Psalms that
challenged a single
authoritative version of
the Bible.
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Who is Jacques
Lefevre
d’Etables?
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This popular monk took
control of Florence in the
1490s and created a
theocratic republic hoping to
clean up immorality and
corruption. He was later
burned alive!
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Who is Girolamo
Savonarola?
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This Portuguese explorer
was the first to round
the Cape of Good Hope
in southern Africa.
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Who is
Bartholomeu
Dias?
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This conquistador
subdued the Aztecs in
1521.
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Who is
Hernán Cortés?
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This Portuguese explorer
was the first European to
find an all-water route to
India.
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Who is Vasco da
Gama?
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This Portuguese royal
invested large sums of
money in the midfifteenth century to fund
expeditions down the
western coast of Africa.
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Who is Prince
Henry the
Navigator?
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This edict issued by the
Pope in 1494 divided the
world between Spain and
Portugal by drawing a line
down the middle of the
Atlantic Ocean.
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What is the
Treaty of
Tordesillas?
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Commercial
Revolution
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Renaissance
Roulette
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This Florentine artist
used strong
humanistic traits in
his Birth of Venus.
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Who is Sandro
Botticelli?
Round 2
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This artist was one of the
very first to paint human
nudes in his masterpiece,
The Expulsion of Adam
and Eve (c. 1425)
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Who is
Masaccio?
Round 2
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This humanistic
Renaissance painting by
Raphael has Plato and
Aristotle at its center.
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What is The
School of Athens
(1510-11)?
Round 2
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The Pietá, perhaps the
most perfect sculpture of
the Renaissance, was
created by this
Renaissance artist.
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Who is
Michelangelo?
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This Low Country artist of
the Northern Renaissance
focused on the lives of
ordinary people, such as in
his Battle Between
Carnival and Lent.
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Who is Peter
Brueghel the
Elder?
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This Florentine writer
stated, “It is better to
be feared than to be
loved.”
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Who is Niccolò
Machiavelli?
Round 2
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The incredible eastern and
northern gold doors of the
Florentine Baptistery—the
“gates of paradise”—were
sculpted by this artist.
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Who is Lorenzo
Ghiberti?
Round 2
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This proto-feminist
published The Book of
the City of Ladies in
1405.
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Who is Christine
de Pisan?
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This expert of Greek
language and culture
founded the Platonic
Academy at the behest of
Cosimo de’ Medici.
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Who is Marsiglio
Ficino?
Round 2
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These mercenary
generals were hired by
Italian city-states for
purposes of war.
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What are
Condottieri?
Round 2
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In the
and
centuries this Tuscan city
was generally the most
powerful and wealthy of
the Italian city-states.
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What is
Florence?
Round 2
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This family ruled
Florence from the mid15th century onward
while dominating
banking.
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What is the
Medici family?
Round 2
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Popes ruled politically
in these central
Italian states.
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What are the
Papal States?
Round 2
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This family dominated
politics in Milan
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during the 15
century.
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What is the
Sforza family?
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This Mantuan ruler was
the most powerful
female ruler during the
Renaissance.
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Who is
Isabella
d’Este?
Round 2
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This was the period in
which two popes
controlled the Catholic
Church: one from Rome
and the other from
Avignon.
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What is the
Great Schism?
Round 2
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Fleas on black rats
caused this period of
relative
unhealthiness.
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What is the
Black Death?
Round 2
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This period is so-called
because the pope led the
Church from Avignon,
allegedly under the
influence of French
monarchs.
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What is the
“Babylonian
Captivity?”
Round 2
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This guy wrote a
masterpiece in the Italian
Vernacular about the
different levels of hell in
the Divine Comedy.
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Who is Dante
Alighieri?
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This Medieval philosophy
of Thomas Aquinas sought
to reconcile the science of
Aristotle with the writings
of the Church.
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What is
Scholasticism?
Round 2
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This strata of society led
the Commercial
Revolution with its
entrepreneurialism and
initiative.
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What is the
middle class
(bourgeoisie)?
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This term refers to the
flow of resources and
goods between the New
World and Europe
between the 16th and 18th
centuries.
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What is the
Columbian
Exchange?
Round 2
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This term refers to the
slow gradual inflation
that occurred during the
sixteenth century.
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What is the “price
revolution?”
Round 2
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This business
arrangement/innovation
between 16th-century
investors became the
forerunner of the modern
corporation.
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What is the
joint-stock
company?
Round 2
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This Flemish city was
Europe’s banking
center during the
sixteenth century.
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What is
Antwerp?
Round 2
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This 15th-century invention
revolutionized
communication and made
new ideas much more
widely available during the
Renaissance.
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What is the
printing press
(moveable type)?
Round 2
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This Czech follower of
John Wyclif was burned
at the stake for his
views on the supremacy
of scripture.
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Who is
John Hus?
Round 2
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This Church movement
sought to create a body
of cardinals that was
more powerful than the
pope.
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What is the
Conciliar
Movement?
Round 2
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Machiavelli based The
Prince on his
observations of this
powerful and cunning
politician.
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Who is Cesare
Borgia?
Round 2
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This new adjustable sail
made navigation of the
high seas much more
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century.
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What is the
lateen sail?
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