AP European History
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8/19-8/23
The following packet includes all assignments for the week of 8/19 – 8/23. Student portfolios will be
turned in at the end of the week (8/23) to be graded by teacher.
8/19- Italian Renaissance
8/20- Humanism
8/21-Italian Renaissance Art
8/22-European Politics during the Renaissance
8/23- Packet due, Quiz
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Renaissance Checklist
1. _____
ID Terms
2. _____
Important People
3. _____
Guided Reading, The Italian Renaissance (p.318-321)
4. _____
Guided Reading, Italian Renaissance Humanism (p.321-327)
5. _____
Guided Reading, Italian Renaissance Art (p.327-330)
6. _____
Guided Reading, European Politics During the Renaissance (p.331-338)
7._____
Renaissance Art DBQ
8. ____
Summary Questions
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ID Terms
Italian Renaissance
city-states
Civic Humanism
Mannerism
Sistine Chapel
Republic
Condottieri
Signoria
Ciompi
Neo-Platonism
Perspective
High Renaissance
Peace of Lodi
grandi
popolo grosso
Petrarch
Donte Alighieri
Raphael
Machiavelli
Francesco Sforza
Lorenzo the Magnificent
Michelangelo
Giotto di Bondone
Emperor Charles V
Erasmus
Leonardo da Vinci
Guttenburg
Cosimo de Medici
Donatello
Pope Julius II
Important People
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All Guided Reading Questions need to be answered in complete sentences. Make sure to label
your work in order to help teacher grade your portfolio.
The Italian Renaissance
(p.318-321)
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
1. How did the 19th century historian Jacob Burckhardt characterize the Renaissance, and what
criticisms have been leveled against his interpretation?
2. Why did the cultural transformation of the Renaissance first take distinctive shape within the
cities of late medieval Italy?
3. Why were the Italian city-states able to grow powerful enough to become independent citystates, while the cities of Northern Europe tended to be dominated by kings and territorial
princes?
4. In what ways were the governments of the Italian city-states of Florence, Milan,and Venice
unique?
Italian Renaissance Humanism
(p.321-327)
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
1. How did Lorenzo Valla prove the Donation of Constantine to be a forgery?
2. How did Civic Humanism differ from traditional Renaissance Humanism?
Italian Renaissance Art
(p.327-330)
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
1. In Renaissance Italy, why were the values and interests of the laity no longer
subordinated (secondary) to those of the clergy?
2. How did Renaissance art differ from Medieval art?
3. What new technical advantages did Renaissance artists have over their Medieval predecessors?
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4. What was mannerism, and how did it differ from High Renaissance art?
European Politics During the Renaissance
(p.331-338)
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
1. Why did Charles VIII of France invade Italy in 1495, and how did Italians respond to his
invasion?
2. In what ways, after 1450, did the divided feudal monarchies of the late Middle Ages begin to
evolve into unified national monarchies?
3. During the Late (High) Middle Ages, the nobility and the towns had acted with varying degrees
of unity and success through evolving representative assemblies to contain expanding
monarchies. Identify three such representative assemblies?
4. Why did Renaissance era monarchs find it difficult to secure new national sources of income,
and what options did they have when it came to raising money?
5. Identify the two cornerstones of French nation building in the fifteenth century, and briefly
explain how each contributed to the process of French nation building?
6. In what ways did the marriage of Isabella of Castile to Ferdinand of Aragon strengthen
the Spanish nation?
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Summary Questions
Answer each question in at least a paragraph. Not all answers can be found in book, you will
need to use notes, reading, and discussion to help answer questions.
1. Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy and why did it first emerge in Florence?
2. What are the characteristics of Humanism? How did it transform the ideals about an
individual’s role in society?
3. What distinguished the art of the Renaissance?
4. What ideas did Machiavelli introduce of the role of the prince and politics?
5. What were Renaissance ideas about education and schooling?
6. In what ways did the Renaissance move Europe away from the medieval and toward the
modern?
7. How did women and minorities influence the Renaissance and how were they influenced
by it?