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AP European History Exam Review Questions and Answers Already Graded A *Jacob Burkhardt* ✔✔a Swiss writer that wrote Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy in 1860. He was the first to coin ... the Renaissance as a period of rebirth. Hanseatic League ✔✔a commercial and defensive league of many merchant guilds and their market towns that were made up of many German States against trade that prevented a lot of commerce for a time The Medici ✔✔a banking family of Florence that controlled much power in the city state; they helped patron much of the arts and made Florence the center of the Renaissance Baldassare Castilglione ✔✔wrote Book of The Courtier; a standard for the Renaissance man that aimed to make a man achieve a well-rounded life through the arts. It also gave some advice on women, asking them to be chaste. Florence ✔✔the center of the Renaissance. It was a cultural breeding ground and patroned many people of the arts. It was also a flourishing city in trade. Venice ✔✔a city that was centered around trade and dominated in power Papal States ✔✔the religious states that helped patron the arts. It was centered around the Pope's power Naples ✔✔a kingdom that did not have much power; they were not a real patron of the RenaissanceIsabella d'Este ✔✔was one of the leading women in the Renaissance as a political and cultural figure that was a patron of the arts; regent of Mantua and prolific writer. She patroned the arts. Niccolo Maciavelli ✔✔wrote The Prince that described that the acquisition and expansion of political power as the means to restore and mantain order. It was secular and said the ends justified the means. Cesare Borgia ✔✔son of Pope Alexander VI that used ruthless measures to achieve his goal of carving a new state in Italy. He abandoned morality for political activity. Humanism ✔✔an intellectual movement based on the study of the classical literary works of Greee and Rome. They studied the liberal arts and antiquity. They were largely secular. Petrarch ✔✔the father of humanism. He was the first to say that the Middle Ages were a period of darkness. It set him searching for Latin books that put an emphasis on classical Latin such as that of Cicero. Civic Humanism ✔✔Florence's humanist movement that was tied to civic spirit and pride in that country. Lorenzo Valla ✔✔educated in bothLatin and Greek that made him write The Elegances of the Latin Language to purify medieval Latin and restore Latin to its proper position over the vernacular. He accepted only the Latin Language of the last century of the Roman Republic and first of their empire Neoplatonism ✔✔the rebirth in interest in Plato that was advocated by the translator Ficino Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ✔✔one of the most famous pieces of writing of the Renaissance called The Oration on the Dignity of Man. He combined the works of many philosophers that were all part of God's revelation to humanity. He believed in unlimited human potential.Johannes Gutenburg ✔✔made the Gutenburg Bible, which was the first truebook of the West to be produced by the movable type. Sandro Boticelli ✔✔had an interest in Greek and Roman mythology as seen with Primavera. It has well-defined figures with an otherworldly quality that is not quite realism. Donato di Donatello ✔✔spent his time in Rome copying Greek and Roman statues. His statue David shows the triumph and strength of Florence over Milan. It had simplicity and strength that reflected the dignity of man. Filippo Brunelleschi ✔✔a friend of Donatello that drew inspiration from architecture of Ancient Rome that built Church of San Lorenzo. He created church environments that did not overwhelm the worshipper but comforted them in human, not divine measurements. Leonardo da Vinci ✔✔transitional figure to the High Renaissance that carried on experimenting and even disecting human bodies. He advanced the idealization of nature from natural to ideal form. It uses space and perspective to show people as three dimensional. Raphael ✔✔he was acclaimed for madonnas that achieved an ideal beauty beyond human standards. He painted frescos in the Vatican and displayed balance, harmony and order. Michelangelo ✔✔an accomplished painter, sculptor and architect that was influenced by Neoplatonism. His muscular figures shows an ideal being that shows divine nature. Jan van Eyeck ✔✔the first to use oil paint that allowed a range of colors and fine details. He did not have a true grasp of perspective though. He used empirical observation of reality. Albrechet Durer ✔✔understood laws of perspective and proportion. Adoration of the Magi brough details to the art as well as ideal form.Taille ✔✔an annual direct tax on land or property Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon ✔✔the dynastic union of two rulers not a political union. Both kingdoms maintained their own parliaments, courts, laws, coins, speech, customs and political organs.The two rulers worked to strengthen the government. They reorganized the military forces of Spain. They secured from the pope the right to select the most important church officials in Spain. They made people convert to Catholicism or they were forced to leave. John Wyclif ✔✔disgust with clerical corruption led him to far-ranging attack on papal authority and medieval Christian beliefs and practices. Alleged that there was no basis in Scripture for papal claims and advocated popes to be stripped of their power. He attracted followers called Lollards John Hus ✔✔urged the elemination of the worldliness and corruption of the clergy and attacked the excessive power of the papacy within the Catholic church. Hus was condemned as a heretic that led to revolutionary upheaval. Pope Julius II ✔✔most involved in war and politics. Called the 'warrior-pope' personally led armies against his enemies,much to the disgust of pious Christians. Pope Leo X ✔✔patron of Renaissance culture. Accelerated the construction of St. Peter's. Northern Humanism ✔✔focused on sources of early Christianity, the Holy Scriptures and the writings of church fathers. They discovered a simple relgion. They believed that the teaching of this could bring inner piety that would reform the church and society. This brought support of education. Desiderius Erasmus ✔✔formulated and popularized the reform program of Christian humanism. Wrote The Handbook of the Christian Knight that reflected his preoccupation with religion. He called his conception of religion the philosophy of Christ. Believed Christianity should be aguiding hilosophy for the direction of daily life. He emphasized inner piety and deemphasized the external forms of religion. Thomas More ✔✔wrote Utopia that gave an account of idealistic life and institutions. A new social system in which cooperation and reason replaced power and fame as the proper motivating agents for human society. All people work together. They are carefully controlled for the moral welfare of society and its members. Martin Luther ✔✔he believed that salvation through faith alone in promises of God. This became from the primary Protestant Reformatio. Luther arived from this as the sole authority of the Bible. 95 Theses ✔✔a statement that criticized that the sale of indulgences was not just. It was originally just to spark debate and not a break with the church. Peasants' War ✔✔peasant dissatisfaction in Germany stemmed from several sources. Many peasants had not been been touched by economic improvement. Social discontent became tangled with religion, seeking for Luther's support but he did not. Charles V ✔✔Holy Roman Emperor that ruled over an empire consisting of Spain and its overseas possessions, Austrian-Habsburg lands, Bohemia, Hungary, the Low Countries and the kingdom of Naples. He could not control his empire. Habsburg-Valois Wars ✔✔rivalry between Charles V and Valois king of France, Francis I that became in conflict after disputed territory in southern France, the Netherlands, the Rhineland, northern Spain and Italy. Suleiman the Magnificient ✔✔defeated and killed King Louis of Hungary, Charles V's brother in law. They overran most of Hungary and into Austria.Schmalkaldic League ✔✔eight Lutheran princes and eleven imperial cities firned a defensive alliance against Charles V's threat of turning them back to the Catholic church. They vowed to help oneanother. Peace of Augsburg 1555 ✔✔the division between Christianity was formally established. Lutheranism granted equal legal standing with Catholicism. Each German ruler could choose the religion for their subjects. Anabaptists ✔✔went to simple living. Believed that The Lord's Supper was interpreted as a remembrance, a meal of fellowship celebrated in the evening in private houses. They believed in adult baptism and complete seperation of church and state. Ulrich Zwingil ✔✔Swiss reformer that spread rthe reformation. Relics and images were abolushed, paintings and decorations were removed from the churches and repaced by whitewashed walls. The Mass was replaced by reading of the Bible. Henry VIII ✔✔wanted to divorce his wife Catherine of Aragone. he cut off all appeals from English church courts to Rome. He abolished pope authority in England. Thomas Cranmer ✔✔archbishop of Canterbury Act of Supremacy, 1534 ✔✔The King was the only supreme head of the Church of England. They could control doctrine, appointments, and discipline. Edward VI ✔✔Underage and sickly king that passed power to the council of the refency. They moved England to be more Protestand and insituted rights of clergy to marry, elimation of images and the creation of a revised Protestant lituary in the Book of Common Prayer Mary I ✔✔Catholic who intended to restore Englan back. She burned more than 300 heretics that actually made England more Protestant.John Calvin ✔✔The founder of Calvinism that wrote The Institutes of Christian Religion that adhered to justification of faith alone. Predestination ✔✔God had predestined some people to be saved (the elect) and some to be damned (the reprobate). One had to openly profess faith, participate in baptism and communion and live a godly life. One couldn't be absolutely certain about this though. Geneva ✔✔John Calvin set up a ministry that brought a church constitution that used clergy and layman for te church as well as a code enforcing discipline. John Knox ✔✔Scottish reformer that helped spread the Calvinist thought throughout Europe Catholic Reformation ✔✔mixture of old and new elements. Medieval Catholicism revived with mysticism through tied experiences as well as monasticism was brough in. Society of Jesus ✔✔Jesuits became the chief instrument for the Catholic reformation that submitted to will of the church. They emphasized that human will can be strengthened by the church. The believed in strong heirarchy as well as education of the masses. Ignatius of Loyola ✔✔experiences spiritual torment similar to Luther but turned to Catholic church. He wrote The Spiritual Exercieses as a training manual for spiritual development by exercises that helped follow the will of God Council of Trent ✔✔upheld traditional Catholic teachings in opposition to Protestant beliefs. Huguenots ✔✔French Calvinists that made up to 50 percent of the nobility icluding the house of Bourbon which was a threat to monarchial power.St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ✔✔when reconciliation was believed between Valois king and Bourbon ruler, the French family were persuaded that Huguenots were a threat and sent a wave of violence that gripped the city. Catherine de Medici ✔✔a powerful womanwho used her young sons as puppets to control the throne Henry IV ✔✔a Protestant that changed to Catholicism for France to assend the throne Edict of Nantes ✔✔acknowledged Catholicism as the official religion of France but guaranteed Huguenots could worship in select areas and recieve fortified towns as well as political privileges. Phillip II ✔✔King of Spain that ushed it into greatness by use if the Soanish Inquisition. He made trade important as well as the importance of Catholicism. William of Orange ✔✔wished to unify all seventeen provinces of Netherlands after a revolt but later was split to the North and south. He led the South Protestant Union as the Dutch Republic. Elizabeth I ✔✔Settled religion that used Act of Uniformity that restored service to Book of Common Prayer as well as Act of Supremacy. She also used caution in her foreign policy. Mary, Queen of Scots ✔✔next in line to the English throne who was Catholic. She was placed on house arrest and later executed. Puritans ✔✔those who were in the Anglican church who wanted to remove any trace of Catholicism from their church Spanish Armada ✔✔an attempt to get rid of a Protestant monarch in England in place of a Catholic one. Miserably failed by being caught in a storm and brought Europe to Naval power.*Prince Henry the Navigator* ✔✔founded a school for navigation in Portugal. This caused Portuguese fleets to probe around the coast of west Africa for Gold. It brought back slaves from the Senegal river and gold on the southern coast of the hump of West Africa. Bartholomeu Dias ✔✔took advantage of westerly winds in South Atlantic to tried to round the Cape of Good Hope but feared mutiny and went back. Vasco de Gama ✔✔rounded the cape with his crew and stopped at several ports controlled by Muslim merchants along the coast of East Africa. Crossed the Arabian Sea and reached the port of Calicut and brought back ginger and cinnamon. Christopher Columbus ✔✔an Italian explorer that worked with the queen of Spain. He believed Asia was larger than previously thought and thought he could reach it by sailing west. He send 3 ships and landed on the Bahamas, believing he had reached Asia. He converted natives to Christianity. John Cabot ✔✔made a British claim of Canada that was the first British explorer Treaty of Tordesillas ✔✔split the land claims between the Spanish and the Portuguese. Spain got most of Latin American and the Portuguese got the Cape of Good Hope Hernan Cortez ✔✔arrived to the capital of the Aztecs and was greeted by Moctezuma. He believedthat he was a God and gave him gold. But eventually he tookhimgostage and pillaged the city. The disease they brought killed many of the Aztecs and led for the Spanish to take over. Francisco Pizzaro ✔✔had steel weapons, gunpowder and horses that were unfamiliar to the Incan empire. They already were ravaged by smallpox. The emporer died because of it and his two sons claimed the throne which caused a civil war. He captured the capital and took it for the Spanish.Encomienda ✔✔a system that permitted the conquering Spaniards to collect tribute from the natives and use them as laborers. In turn, the holders were supposed to protect them, pay them and suprivise their spiritual needs. Many took advantage of this and treated them poorly. Bartolome de Las Casas ✔✔participated in the conquest of Cuba and recieved land and natuves, He underwent radical transformation and came to believe that the natives were treated porly. He became a Dominican friar and fought for their rights. He wrote The Tears of the Indians. Boers ✔✔Dutch farmers that began to settle in areas outside the city of Cape Town. King Alfonso from the Congo ✔✔became concerned about the impact of slave trade in his society Robert Clive ✔✔an aggressive British empire-builder who eventually became the chief representative of the Easy India Company. He consolidated British control in Bengal. Would later lead to colonies being made there. East India Company ✔✔expanded their authority for an economic decision that made regular revenue to pay for military operations in India. Dutch East India Company ✔✔Dutch trade of spices near the East India Jacob Fugger ✔✔head of one of the wealthiest banking firms inin Amsterdam that eventually went bankrupt Antwerp ✔✔the older commercial and banking center replaced by Amsterdam Mercantilism ✔✔belief that the total volume of trade was unchangeable. It's economic activity was war carried on by peaceful means. The properity of a nation depended on a plentiful supply of gold and silver. It was desirable to have more exports and imports. It focused on the role of the state with tarrifs on foreign goods.Thirty Years War ✔✔last of the religious wars between militant Catholicism and Calvinism Ferdinand II ✔✔elected the Holy Roman Emperor refused to accept that he sohould be disposed by rebels. Defeated Frederick and Bohemian nobles and came back into power. Christian IV ✔✔King of Denmark that was a Lutheran that intervened by leading an army into northern Germany. He was defeated by Wallenstein and ended Danish supremacy in the Baltic. Gustavus Aldophus ✔✔king of Sweden that revived Sweden and made it a Baltic power. He brought disciplined and well-equipped Swedish army to northern German. He was a devout Lutheran and was killed in battle. It led to southern Germany to remain Catholic. Wallenstein ✔✔a Bohemian noble that took advantage of of Fernidad's victory over Frederick and defeated the Dutch. He was assasinated but would bring victory for Southern Germany Peace of Westphalia ✔✔ended the Thirty Years' War. Made it clear that religion and politics were seperate. It also made Calvinists, Protestants or Catholic Kings decide the religion of their people. Louis XIII ✔✔a young king that passed his power down to the many cardinals at the time Jacques Bossuet ✔✔wrote Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture that argued government was divinely ordained so that humans could live in an organized society. God established kings andthrough them reigned over all the peoples of the world. Their authority was absolute. Cardinal Richelieu ✔✔Louis XIII's chief minister that initiated policies that eventually strengthed the power of the monarchy. He eliminated the political and military rights of the Huguenots while preserving their religious ones, Richelieu transformed them into more reliable subjects. He uncovered noble plots and crushed conspiracies.Intendents ✔✔royal officials that were sent to the provines to execute the orders of the central government. They further strengthened the power of the King. Cardinal Manzarian ✔✔trained successor to Richelieu that dominated the government under Anne of Austria. He was an Italian that came to France to carry out policies of his teacher. Fronde ✔✔revolt that were against the foreign cardinal. The nobles were against centralized power and allied with the Parlement who opposed the new taxes levied by the government and the masses that did not want more taxes. They were interested in overthrowing Manzarian to secure their positions. It was crushed and said that the best hope in stability was through the crown. Louis XIV ✔✔the supreme power of France thatwas an absolute power. He was willing pay the price of being a strong ruler and created an absolute monarchy. Jean-Baptiste Colbert ✔✔the controller of finances for the Sun King. He increased the wealth and power of France through mercantilism. He expanded the quantity and increased quality of manfactured goods. He made new luxury industries and oversaw training of workers. He franted special privileges, including tax exemptions to those with new industries. Versailles ✔✔a palace that was the household of the king, the location of central governmental machinery and where powerful subjects found themselves. He used it as a way to keep powerful people out of politics. Edict of Fontainbleau ✔✔revoked the Edict of Nantes War of the Spanish Succession ✔✔brought to arms about who was to get the throne of Spain. Charles II left his throne to the grandson of Louis VIV, but when he, Philip V became ruler, Europe brought up arms in an attempt to mainain a balance of power.Peace of Utrecht, 1713 ✔✔ended the war of the Spanish Succession and confirmed Philip V as Spanish ruler. Led a Spanish Bourbon dynasty but said that Spain and France's thrones were to seperated. The Spanish Netherlands, Milan and Naples were givven to Austria. Prussia got some land and Britain got Gibraltar for their naby as well as French possessions of Newfndland, Hudson Bay and Novia Scotia. Frederick William the Great Elector ✔✔came into power during the 30 Years' War. He built an efficient army and sustained it. He levied taxes for the army and oversee its training. He governed the state. He made a deal with the nobles in exchange for a free hand in government, nobles had unlimited power over peasants and were exempt from taxation. Frederick I ✔✔granted the title King of Prussia Leopold I ✔✔Austrian who encouraged eastward movement of Austria that was challenged by the Turks. The Turks were defeated and eventually laid their power in southeastern Europe. Austria gained possession ofthe Spanish Netherlands and revieved formal recognition of its occupation of Spanish territory. It was never fully centralized. Peter the Great ✔✔encountered the West and had determination to westernize Russia. He wanted to transplant technology to Russia by reorganizing the army as well as the central government. Split Russia into provinces. Table of Ranks ✔✔created opportunities for nonobles to serve the state and join the nobility due to system of ranks. Great Northern War ✔✔Peter's was with the Danes and gained a warm-water port that would be the 'window of the west' and the capital of Russia. Charles XII ✔✔interested in military affairs in Sweden that would involve them in wars. He lost much of his land to Russia, making Sweden's power short-lived.Battle of Lepanto ✔✔when the Mediterranean was threatened, the Turks were defeated by the Spanish that brought them to norm control of that area. William III of Orange ✔✔established a monarchy in Dutch Republic but then went back to a republic as it once was. James I ✔✔son of Mary Queen of Scots that became king of England. Undersood little about the laws, institutions and customs of the English. Believed in divine right of kings that alienated the parliament. Puritans were opposing of the policy of the king. Charles I ✔✔Parliament passed the petition of right that the king was supposed to accept before being granted any tax revenues that granted many freedoms. He originally accepted it but decided not to. He decided that he would not summon parliament. He collected taxes on seacoast towns called ship money. He married a Catholic that aroused suspicions. Long Parliament ✔✔took a series of steps to limit authority of the royal governemnt. There were to be no arbitrary courts, the abolition of taxes that the king had collected without their consent and the Triennial act that said they were to meet at least every 3 years. English Civil War ✔✔King tried to take advantage of split between radicals and moderates and arrested some radicals. He arrested Putitans and started the English CivilWar. Oliver Cromwell ✔✔made The New Model Army that was made of Puritans that believed they were fighting for the lord. He became a leader after the death of the King. He made a military dictatorship. Rump Parliament ✔✔Presbyterians of the Parliament were purged, leaving 53 Puritans by Cromwellthat tried and condemned the king. They executed him.Charles II ✔✔returned toEngland. The restoration of the monarchy still made Parliament have much power and its necessity for its consent to taxation was accepted. Arbitrary courts were still abolished. James II ✔✔devout Catholic that attempted to further Catholicism in England and named them in high positions. He made it able for Catholics to become powerful in office. Test Act, 1673 ✔✔Charles II's Parliament said that only Anglicans could hold military and civil offices Declaration of Indulgence, 1687 ✔✔suspended all laws barring Catholics and Dissenters from office Glorious Revolution ✔✔William of Orange and Mary were invited to invade England. With almost no bloodshed, there were acts of new king and queen to prevent Catholic power. William and Mary ✔✔raised an army and invaded England while James, his wife and son fled to France. They accepted a declaration of rights and Parliament's authority Thomas Hobbes ✔✔wrote Leviathan that claimed that the state of natre was terrible. They were guided by animalistic instincts and self-preservation. They said that a commonwealth with absolute authority should be the most powerful. It should strike fear in the citizens. John Locke ✔✔wrote Two Treatises of Government that said humans lived in equality in the state of nature. They made government to protect their rights while people would act reasonably. If the government broke this, people could form a new government. Mannerism ✔✔brought anxiety, uncertainty and suffering to painting. It broke down principles of balance, harmony and moderation. They distorted rules of proportion [Show More]

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