AP Euro Chapter 2
Medici Family - Answer-Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries
Cosimo de Medici - Answer-Italian financier and statesman and friend of the pope he helped get into papal office....
AP Euro Chapter 2
Medici Family - Answer-Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy
from banking, spent a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries
Cosimo de Medici - Answer-Italian financier and statesman and friend of the pope he
helped get into papal office. Supported Brunneleschi's completion of the Duomo. He
also commissioned public art for the city of Florence.
Machiavelli's The Prince - Answer-A short political treatise about political power how
the ruler should gain, maintain, and increase it. Machiavelli explores the problems of
human nature and concludes that human beings are selfish and out to advance their
own interests
Sack of Rome, 1527 - Answer-May 5, 1527 - A military event carried out by the
mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Rome, then part of the Papal
States. It marked a crucial imperial victory in the conflict between Charles I of Spain
Holy Roman Emperor, and the League of Cognac (1526-1529) — the alliance of
France, Milan, Venice, Florence and the Papacy.
Charles V - Answer-Holy Roman emperor (1519-1558) and king of Spain as Charles
I (1516-1556). He summoned the Diet of Worms (1521) and the Council of Trent
(1545-1563).
Humanism - Answer-an intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that
focused on education and the classics
Civic Humanism - Answer-the individual is responsible for applying his knowledge for
public service
Petrarch - Answer-(1304-1374) Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two
centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human
civilization.
Bocaccio's The Decameron - Answer-A work that portrays an acquisitive, sensual,
and worldly society through descriptions of merchants, friars, and husbands
Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier - Answer-Epitomized the main ideas of
Italian humanism. Said a successful man was one who could integrate knowledge of
ancient languages and history with athletic, musical, and military skills, all while
being polite and exhibiting a high moral character.
virtu - Answer-The striving for excellence and being a virtuous person. Humanistic
aspect of Renaissance.
Johannes Gutenberg - Answer-1400-1468. German goldsmith and printer who is
credited with inventing movable printing type in Europe abround 1439. Created the
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