Renaissance 2
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- What painting technique makes things in the foreground appear close and things in the background appear farther away?
- perspective
- What technique did Renaissance artists use to make their paintings seem more lifelike?
- perspective
- What happened when unemployed peasant farmers moved to the cities looking for work?
- They took jobs from the city people because they were willing to work for less pay.
- Why did the peasant farmers have to leave the farmlands of the manors?
- The landowners wanted to raise sheep for wool instead of crops for food.
- Define the Reconquista.
- The effort to make everyone in Spain belong to the Catholic Church.
- What did King Louis XI do to get the support of the common people of France?
- He ignored the nobles and gave special favors to the merchants.
- If a person protested the teachings of the Catholic Church, he or she was called a ____________________.
- Protestant
- Who were the Lutherans?
- Lutherans were people who followed the teachings of Martin Luther.
- What crime did the Catholic Church say Martin Luther had committed?
- heresy
- What did Martin Luther do that displeased the officials of the Catholic Church?
- He protested the selling of indulgences.
- The first pope to sell indulgences for sins a person might commit in the future was ___________________.
- Pope Leo X
- Define clergy.
- officials of the church
- Who did Ferdinand marry in order to unite the parts of Spain into one country?
- Isabella
- Henry VII married the niece of a man he defeated in battle in order to unite what country?
- England
- Who supported Columbus in his efforts to find a new route to India?
- Isabella
- What were the dates of the Renaissance?
- from about 1400 to about 1600
- One of the most famous patrons of the arts during the Renaissance in Italy was the ____________________.
- de Medici
- What invention allowed printers to produce more books during the Renaissance?
- the movable-type printing press
- What instrument did Galileo develop in order to study the movement of the planets?
- telescope