Unit 18: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Europe
Topic 18.4: The Renaissance (c1400–1600) Questions
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Choose the correct answer: Which family came to dominate Florence's politics from 1434 while officially maintaining the city's republican constitution?
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Which duke's court is described as a bridge between Italian Renaissance culture and northern Europe, blending Gothic tradition with Italian influence?
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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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John Colet's main contribution to the English Renaissance was founding which institution in 1509?
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Choose the correct answer: Which event in 1453 contributed to the spread of Greek classical learning into Italy?
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Thomas More's Utopia (1516) is best described as which type of Renaissance text?
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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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Choose the correct answer: Ludovico Sforza's patronage of Leonardo da Vinci in Milan is best explained by which of the following motives?
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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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Choose the correct answer: Which pope commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, completed in 1512?
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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 forms of government in Renaissance Florence and Renaissance Venice, and their effects on cultural patronage.
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In which year did Machiavelli complete writing The Prince, though it was not published until 1532?
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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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Choose the correct answer: In which city did the Doge serve as a largely ceremonial figurehead while real power rested with a hereditary merchant nobility?
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Who is often called the 'Father of Humanism' for his study of ancient Roman manuscripts and his concept of a 'dark age' before his own time?
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