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Kagan Text pages 316-327
PART I: GUIDED READING
QUESTIONS:
1) How did the 19th century historian Jacob
Burckhardt characterize the Renaissance, and
4) What were the various social classes of
what criticisms have been leveled against his
the Renaissance city-states?
interpretation?
2) What do most scholars believe
characterized the Renaissance Period?
5) In what ways were the governments of the
Italian city-states of Florence, Milan, and
Venice unique?
3) Why were the Italian city-states able to
grow powerful enough to become independent
city-states, while the cities of Northern
Europe tended to be dominated by kings and
territorial princes?
6) What caused the Ciompi Revolt and what
did it lead to?
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PART II: GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
1) What is Humanism and what did some
4) What was the goal of humanist studies?
influential humanists do during the
Renaissance era (ie. Petrarch, Dante, and
Boccaccio)?
5) How did Lorenzo Valla prove the Donation
of Constantine to be a forgery?
2) How did the Florentine Academy and the
revival of Platonism aid in the development
of Humanism?
6) How did Civic Humanism differ from
traditional Renaissance Humanism?
3) What did the first humanists study?
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Kagan Text pg (327-336) Parts III & IV
PART III: GUIDED READING
4) Who were the major Renaissance
QUESTIONS:
painters, including the "father of
Renaissance painting"?
1) In Renaissance Italy, why were the values
and interests of the laity no
longer subordinated (secondary) to those of
the clergy?
5) What was mannerism, and how did it
differ from High Renaissance art?
2) How did Renaissance art differ from
Medieval art?
PART IV: GUIDED READING
QUESTIONS
1) What was the purpose of the Treaty of
Lodi (1454- 1455)?
3) What new technical advantages did
Renaissance artists have over their
Medieval predecessors?
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2) Why did Charles VIII of France invade
Italy in 1495, and how did Italians respond to
his invasion?
7) What fueled the revival of monarchy in
Northern Europe? (pg 335-337)
3) Who was Savonarola and how did he affect
Florence?
4) How did the Borgia family use its powerful
8) During the Late (High) Middle Ages, the
influences?
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?
5) How would you characterize Pope Julius
II's papacy?
8) 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) Who was Niccolo Machiavelli and why was
he so influential?
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9) In what ways did the marriage of Isabella
of Castile to Ferdinand of Aragon strengthen
the Spanish nation?
10) What was the Court of Star Chamber
used for in England?
11) Explain the Golden Bull in the Holy
Roman Empire and what was the Reichstag?
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Part V: Guided Reading Questions
1) In what ways did northern Renaissance
humanism differ from the humanism of the
Italian Renaissance?
5) How did Northern Christian humanism
assist Spain in maintaining a strict Catholic
society throughout the Protestant
Reformation?
2) How did the invention of printing with
movable type affect European society?
3) In what ways did Erasmus challenge
commonly held religious beliefs of his time?
4) In what ways did the introduction of
humanism in England, France, and Germany
prepare the way for Protestant religious
reforms in those nation-states?