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Ch 12 Section 1 Worksheet

Directions: Answer the following questions as you read section 1.

1. Why was the term Renaissance used to refer to the time between 1350 and 1550?

2. What are the three most important characteristics of the Italian Renaissance?

3. Which three city-states played crucial roles in Italian Politics?

4. How did the location of Milan help to make it ritch and powerful?

5. What activities in Florance did the Dominican Preacher Savonarola seek to regulate?

6. Whitch two European countriesmade Italy their battleground for 30 years?

7. Why did the army of charles I of Spain sack the city of rome in 1527?

8. What has been the impact of Niccolo Machiavelli's book , the Prince?

9. From Machiavilli's point of view, what attitude should a prince have tward power?

10. What did Castiglione say were the three characteristics of a perfect Renaissance Noble?

11. How did Italian families have their children declared adults?

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Write the correct letters in the blanks.

A. Secular

B. Urban society

C. Renaissance

D. Dowry

E. The Prince

1. _______ rebirth

2. _______ city-centered

3. _______ worldly

4. _______ political work by Machiavelli

5. _______ sum of money given to the groom by the wife’s family

Circle the letter for the correct answer choice

6. The Renaissance was all of the following except

a. An urban society

b. An age of recovery from plagues, political upheaval, and decline of Church authority

c. The end of poverty

d. a higher regard for the value of the individual human

7. The city-state that was led by a group of wealthy merchant-aristocrats was

a. Rome

b. The Papal States

c. Milan

d. Venice

8. Machiavelli encouraged rulers and would-be rulers to believe that

a. Human nature was self-centered

b. Human nature was to be truthful

c. Women were superior to men

d. The Church should be discredited

9. According to Castiglione’s book, The Book of the Courtier, a noble should do all of the following EXCEPT

a. Fulfill certain ideals

b. Perform military exercises

c. Gain a classical education

d. Farm the land

10. The third estate was made up of all of the following EXCEPT

a. Patricians

b. Peasants

c. Artisans

d. Merchants