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Round 1 UltimateQuestion
Cosimo de’ Medici
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category #1 Category #2 Category #4 Category #5 Category #6Renaissance Philosophy
Wars and the Military
Visual Arts New Monarchs
Feeling Religious
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This 14th-century 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 quasi-military 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 isCharles 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 the late-15th
century.
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What is the reconquista?
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This sculptor created in the 15th 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 the early-16th 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 late-fifteenth century.
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Who is Louis XI (the “Spider
King”)?
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These two monarchs united Spain in the
late 15th 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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This late-15th 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 turn-of-the-16th-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 mid-fifteenth 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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This non-native Spanish painter was the most
well-known of the Mannerists; his
masterpiece was The Burial of Count Orgaz.
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