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Western Civilization - Chapter 12

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A key assistant and partner to Cortés in his assault on the Aztecs was:
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La Malinche
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According to Machiavelli, the ideal form of government was:
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A republic modeled on the Roman example.
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After confederating their kingdoms through marriage, Ferdinand and Isabella devoted their energies to:
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Creating one of Europe's most powerful armies
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Although he did manage to discover a world unknown to Europeans, Christopher Columbus did so in spite of:
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Gross miscalculation of the earth's size.
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Beginning in the 1440s, design changes in Portuguese caravels allowed them to:
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Sail with two masts and triangular sails, which required fewer sailors.
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During the Renaissance, sculpture broke with the recent past in that statuary:
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Depicted freestanding figures "in the round."
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Having succeeded in conquering Granada, through her sponsorship of Columbus's voyages, Isabella conceptually:
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Helped export the tradition of conquest to the New World.
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In Spain, the Reconquista effectively ended Muslim rulers' policy of:
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Convivencia.
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In contrast to the civic humanists, Castiglione, in his book The Courtier, stressed as the hallmark of true nobility:
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An ideal of effortlessness and elegance at court.
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In the Renaissance, artists mastered:
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The technique of vanishing perspective.
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Leonardo da Vinci's skills included all of the following except:
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Poetry.
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Machiavelli felt that Cesare Borgia:
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Might help make Italy fit for self-governance again.
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Marsilio Ficino taught the neoplatonic idea that:
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One should strive to free one's immortal soul from mortal bodies.
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Michelangelo's greatest achievement as a painter was the:
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Sistine Chapel.
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One of the most likely reasons that Renaissance ideals were slow to take hold in northern Europe was because:
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The curriculum in Italian schools focused on professions, while in the north it was focused on theological and philosophical training.
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One of the reasons Raphael's School of Athens is of interest is that:
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Many of Raphael's contemporaries were used as models for the various philosophers.
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Prince Henry the Navigator was motivated to promote voyages of discovery and colonization by:
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The desire for African gold and to join in the Ottoman slave trade.
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The Spanish modeled their Caribbean sugar plantations, worked by enslaved African laborers, on:
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Portuguese sugar plantations on the Cape Verde Islands and the island of Saint Thomas.
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The first northern artist to master the Renaissance techniques of proportion and perspective was:
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Albrecht Dürer.
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The increasing use of artillery after 1400 resulted in:
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Walls and castles becoming obsolete as defensive structures.
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The industry that most fundamentally shaped the sixteenth-century Spanish colonies in Central and South America was:
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Mining.
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The larger size and stability of the caravels and subsequent ship designs of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries:
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Allowed the ships to become floating artillery platforms.
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The leader of the first European expedition to reach Asia by sailing west was:
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Ferdinand Magellan.
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To promote the unity of Spain and foster its continued development as a nation-state, Ferdinand and Isabella:
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Promoted Castilian Spanish as the single national language.
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What happened within a generation of Columbus's first voyage?
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European diseases had spread widely in the Caribbean and along the American coastlines.