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EURO history
Facts and dates to prep for the AP exam
Question | Answer |
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What does Renaissance mean, and when did the age of the Renaissance occur? | Renaissance means "rebirth," and the age was during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. |
What was the Hanseatic League? | The Hanseatic League was a commercial and military association of North German coastal towns during the Renaissance. |
What was the Medici family famous for? | The Medici family was famous for their banks in the fifteenth century, as well as their cloth production and real estate. They were the principle banker for the papacy. |
Who wrote "The Book of the Courtier?" | Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529), and Italian. |
What were the five major Italian States during the Renaissance? | Duchy of Milan, Republic of Venice, the Republic of Florence, the Republic of Siena, the Papal States, and the Kingdom of Naples. |
What was Italian Renaissance Humanism? | An intellectual movement based on the study of the classical works of Greece and Rome. Grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy , and history made up the subjects of humanities. |
When did the Tudor king Henry VII rule? | From 1483-1509 |