WOH 2022
The Cape of Good Hope was rounded in 1487 by...
Bartolomeu Dias
Which is NOT true of the political recovery of the fifteenth century in Europe?
Centralized monarchies gained strength in Germanic central Europe.
The city most associated with Calvin is...
Geneva
The English king most responsible for creating a strong monarchical government was...
Henry VII
Which sentence would NOT characterize the Jesuit order?
It arranged a theological compromise with the Protestants.
What is NOT true about the Holy Roman Empire?
It was a strong and centralized territorial state.
The Renaissance began in...
Italy
Which area failed to establish a centralized territorial state by the end of the fifteenth century?
Italy
"The Institutes of the Christian Religion", a masterful synthesis of Protestant thought was written by...
John Calvin
The Renaissance woman who defended the right of women to pursue scholarly pursuits...
Laura Cerata
Which is NOT true?
Love was a major reason for marriage.
As a result of the 1555 Peace of Augsburg....
Lutheranism became established as an alternative to roman Catholicism in the Germanies
The major impetus for the spread of Islam in SE Asia came in the early fifteenth century with the establishment of this sultanate....
Malacca
One of the earliest West African states to become Muslim was....
Mali
The artist who painted the Sistine chapel and who sculpted the statue of David was...
Michelangelo
The divine beauty of the ceiling figures in the Sistine chapel are a reflection of Neoplatonism of...
Michelangelo
Which is correct about life in Protestant Europe in the 1500s and 1600s?
Ministers were allowed to get married and have families.
The writer who best gave expression to the sixteenth-century preoccupation with political power was...
Niccolo Machiavelli
After Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon was annulled by the Archbishop of Canterbury...
Parliament finalized England's religions break with Rome by passing the Act of Supremacy, making Henry the head of the Anglican church
The pope who began the reformation of the papacy was...
Paul III
Which product attracted the greatest European interest in SE Asia between 1500 and 1800?
Pepper and other spices
An Italian intellectual who hunted down ancient manuscripts and emphasized classical Latin was...
Petrarch
The architect Filippo Brunelleschi was inspired by...
Roman models
The ideal of early fifteenth-century Humanists was to...
Serve the state
The Spanish base of operations in SE Asia was established in...
The Philippines
Which is NOT true of the Portuguese foray into overseas trade?
They employed the standard methods of peaceful competition that existed before they venture into those new foreign regions.
Which is NOT an accurate reference to Anabaptist ideas and practices?
They saw government as a direct partner with religion in society.
By the twelfth century, a great center of Islamic learning in West Africa was...
Timbuktu
The Portuguese leaders who first landed at Calicut and seized the port of Malacca were, respectively....
Vasco da Gama annd Alfonso de Albuquerque
Which was NOT a position taken by Martin Luther?
acts of good work are the sole source of salvation
John Calvin...
advanced the doctrine of predestination
The phrase "l'uomo universale" means that one should...
be capable of achievements in many areas
Arter the death of Henry VIII, England...
became more Protestant under Edward VI
Luther's reforms did NOT include....
clerical celibacy
The Treaty of Tordesillas
divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between Spain and Portugal
Prince Henry...
established a school for navigators in Portugal in 1419
The Council of Trent took the position that...
faith and good works were required for salvation
Europeans embarked on expansionist voyages for all of the following except...
fear that Islam would occupy the rest of the world if Christendom did not
Renaissance artists...
focused on a realistic portrayal of human beings and nature
An important reason why Henry VIII broke with the roman Church was because...
he could not get Rome's permission to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon
By the early 1400s, a growing percentage of the Asian spice trade was being transported....
in Muslim ships
Italian city states such as Venice and Florence could best be described as...
merchant oligarchies
An influential cargo brought back to Portugal from the West African coastal voyages in 1441 was...
slaves
France's Louis XI was known as the...
spider
Under the encomiendo system, New World natives were
supposed to be protected by the Spanish
Among the complaints of religious Europeans around 1500 was...
the belief that the clergy were too interested in financial matters and uninterested in religious ones
Developments that helped Europeans expand their influence on the oceans did not include...
the construction of gigantic ships, even larger than those employed by the Ming's Zhenghe
Western historians customarily regard this as the crucial point in opening the trade routes to the East....
the voyages of Vasco de Gama
The Dutch and Portuguese
were bitter trade rivals in SE Asia until the Dutch won out
The principles of Early Renaissance art...
were demonstrated in the frescoes of Masaccio, which employed the laws of perspective
