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AP Euro Final Exam Questions and Answers with Verified Solutions Black Death (The Plague) 1347 Genoese sailors carried cargo along with disease-infested rats and fleas with a disease later called this. Often transmitted person to person- many priests died because cared for the sick. Started with boil, bubo that was a bump the size of a nut or apple and very painful- gave name. Next came bleeding under skin with spots and blotches. Finally person coughed violently and spit blood and de...

AP Euro Exam Review Questions and Answers 100% Correct Scientific Revolution advances in the knowledge of how nature works, included new discoveries and solved ancient problems, moved knowledge from uncertainty to uncertainty, came in the fields of physics, astronomy, and medicine alchemy the belief that matter could be understood and transformed by mixing substances and using secret formulas, a famous alchemist was Paracelsus, who said that metals as well as plants might have medici...

AP Euro Chapter 2 Questions and Answers Rated A+ Medici Family Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries Cosimo de Medici Italian financier and statesman and friend of the pope he helped get into papal office. Supported Brunneleschi's completion of the Duomo. He also commissioned public art for the city of Florence. Machiavelli's The Prince A short political treatise about political powe...

AP Euro Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers Rated A+ Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance was the beginning of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600. Jacob Burckhart A 19th century historian who claimed the Renaissance period stood in distinct contrast to the Middle Ages city-states Small independent states mostly in the central and northern Italian peninsula that c...

AP Euro Dates Quiz and Answers Already Graded A+ Black Death 1348-1351 Council of Constance burns Hus and ends Great Schism 1415-1417 Fall of Constantinople; end of Hundred Years' War 1453 Invention of printing press 1455 Columbus encounters America; completion of reconquista in Spain 1492 Luther posts 95 Theses 1517 Cortez conquers Aztecs 1519 Act of Supremacy in England creates Anglican Church 1534 Calvin establishes reformed faith in Geneva 1536 Copernicus publishes heliocentric ...

AP Euro Exam Review with Questions and Answers Cosimo de Medici ( ) - supported education and the arts, made many business connections in Europe Lorenzo Medici ( ) - gave power to the lower classes of Italy, but he let his family business decline. Savonorola ( ) - bonfire of Vanities and Ruled Florence STRICTLY, later exectued by the Pope Petrarch ( ) - coined the term renaissance, , (1304-1374) Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to repre...

AP Euro Exam Study Guide| 836 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION

AP Euro Exam Study Guide| 836 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION 100 Years War Correct Answer: 1337 - 1453 English King Edward III declared himself King of France since his mother was Isabella of France; Joan of Arc franch on side of Charles VII; result: increases power of French king , more unified France, pride

The Renaissance - Answer- great rebirth of art, literature, and learning in 14th-16th centuries, marking transition from medieval to modern European periods Humanism - Answer- a renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements Civic Humanism - Answer- humanism with the added belief that one must be an active and contributing member to one's society Petrarch - Answer- father of the renaissance; believed the first...

Italian Renaissance - Answer- The Italian Renaissance was the beginning of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600. Jacob Burckhart - Answer- A 19th century historian who claimed the Renaissance period stood in distinct contrast to the Middle Ages city-states - Answer- Small independent states mostly in the central and northern Italian peninsula that caused much competition and were ...