Unit 18: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Europe
Topic 18.4: The Renaissance (c1400–1600) Questions
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Compare and contrast the forms of government in Renaissance Florence and Renaissance Venice, and their effects on cultural patronage.
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Evaluate the relative importance of wealth from trade and the humanist intellectual movement in explaining the origins of the Italian Renaissance.
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Discuss the role of Ludovico Sforza in the development of the Renaissance in Milan.
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Examine the reasons why the Renaissance began in Italy rather than elsewhere in Europe around 1400.
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Evaluate the extent to which patronage, rather than economic and political conditions, was responsible for the flourishing of the Renaissance in Italy.
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To what extent did the papacy transform Rome into the leading centre of the Renaissance in the period 1447 to 1513?
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Analyse the reasons why Lorenzo de Medici patronised art, scholarship and public festivals in Florence.
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Examine the impact of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 on the development of the Renaissance in Italy.
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Discuss the view that art in Renaissance Italy was primarily a form of political propaganda.
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Compare and contrast the motives behind the patronage of Lorenzo de Medici in Florence and Pope Julius II in Rome.
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Compare and contrast the contributions of Erasmus and Thomas More to Renaissance humanism.
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To what extent was the printing press responsible for the spread of the Renaissance to northern Europe?
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Evaluate the view that the English Renaissance was merely an imitation of the Italian Renaissance.
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Discuss the significance of court patronage in the spread of Renaissance culture, with reference to Burgundy and Tudor England.
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Analyse the ways in which Renaissance art and portraiture reflected new ideas about the individual, with reference to Dürer and Holbein.
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Compare and contrast the ways the Renaissance affected political life in Italy and in Tudor England.
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To what extent did Christian Humanism represent a distinctive northern development of Renaissance ideas?
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Examine the impact of Renaissance political writings on European political thought.
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Evaluate the extent to which Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince represented a break from earlier political thought.
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Discuss the role of humanist literature in shaping Renaissance thought, with reference to Petrarch.
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