Unit 15

Civic

• An imaginary; ideal place.

• Respect and admiration for others.

• Having to do with city or town life.

• Related to commerce or trade.

Why did the growth of trade and industry weaken feudalism?

• Peasants left manors for towns where they could find work.

• Feudal manors switched from agriculture to manufacturing.

• The rise of a merchant class weakened the power of monarchs.

• Agriculture stopped being profitable because merchants imported food.

Which of the following is a major reason that Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance?

• City-states in Italy were centers of trade and commerce.

• Many of the great writers of the Renaissance were Italian.

• Italian scholars had preserved much of the learning of ancient Rome.

• Feudalism had been stronger in Italy than in other parts of Europe.

Renaissance humanists believed that studying classical works could

• lead to a revival of the Roman empire.

• cause one to reject religious traditions.

• deepen one's religious faith.

• help to create a better earthly life.

The secularism of the Renaissance was a shift from what feature of medieval life?

• manor economy

• feudal system

• emphasis on religious values

• study of classical learning

In Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

• described a fictional ideal society.

• outlined the principles of a liberal education.

• explained how rulers get and keep power.

• satirized political and social problems.

What did the development of linear perspective allow artists to do?

• show human anatomy more accurately

• create more exact technical drawings

• paint three dimensional images on a flat surface

• build domes with precise mathematical proportions

Who wrote a novel that satirized the ideals of medieval chivalry?

• Dante Alighieri

• Miquel de Cervantes

• Petrarch

• William Shakespeare

Renaissance architects designed structures that were considered beautiful because of their

• ornate religious imagery.

• revival of medieval models.

• simplicity of design.

• harmony and proportion.

Many major writers of the Renaissance shifted from

• non-fiction to fiction.

• religious subjects to secular subjects.

• the vernacular to classical Latin

• novels to poetry.