Study Guide for Chapter 12 Exam


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1. How did people get infected by the plague?

2. Who gained power from the 1100’s to the 1300’s?

3. What did people study in the Northern Renaissance?

4. What did literacy rise to during the 1500’s?

5. Know about the city states of Italy.

6. What is a Renaissance? What does Renaissance mean?

7. Who invented the printing press?

8. Who invented the flush toilet?

9. Who was Lorenzo Medici?

10. What was Florence the center of?


Know the following people, events and ideas.

11. humanism
12. patron/patroness
13. Isabella d’Este
14. Michelangelo
15. Leonardo da Vinci
16. weapons used before the musket
17. classicalism
18. The Hundred Year’s War
19. Joan of Arc
20. The Medici family
21. Death toll of the plague
22. The wealthiest people of Italy

23. Galileo
24. The pendulum
25. The center of life for nobles
26. The growth of trade and towns
27. Who had strong central governments during the Middle Ages?
28. Leader of trade in Europe.
29. Different warfare during the 100 years war.
30. Length of the 100 years war.
31. The year the black death came to Europe
32. Why was Joan of Arc killed?
33. Sir Thomas More
34. William Shakespeare
35. perspective
36. Hans Holbein the Younger
37. Architecture
38. Ambroise Pare

Know the art and be able to identify artwork from the following people

39. Michelangelo
40. Da Vinci
41. Raphael
42. Donatello
43. Jan Van Ecyk