Renaissance Jeopardy

Renaissance Jeopardy

Medici 100 • This member of the Medici Family was given the Title “The Magnificent” • Who is Lorenzo De Medici? First Slide

Medici 200 • The founder of Medici power, he accumulated a huge fortune and lent money to the Papacy • Who is Giovanni De Medici? First Slide

Medici 300 • He came back from exile, ruled Florence behind the scenes and was named Pater patriae • Who was Cosimo de Medici? First Slide

Medici 400 • In 1478 the Pazzi family assassinated this member of the Medici family, who was ruling jointly with his brother Lorenzo • Who is Giuliano de Medici? First Slide

Medici 500 • He resided with the Medici for five years and constructed the Medici family tomb. • Who is Michelangelo? First Slide

Powerful Popes 100 • Sixtus IV instituted this tribunal in Spain in order to root out heresy and other threats to Catholic dogma • What is the Inquisition? First Slide

Powerful Popes 200 • He invited humanist scholars to court and founded the Vatican Library. • Who is Nicholas V? First Slide

Powerful Popes 300 • He admired Cosimo De Medici for his control of Florence and allied with Vlad III against the Turks • Who is Pius II? First Slide

Powerful Popes 400 • Martin V was elected Pope by this body in order to end the Great Schism • What is the Council of Constance? First Slide

Powerful Popes 500 • Pius II took his name in recognition of this famous Trojan/Roman hero whose name he shared and who was described as being pius. • Who is Aeneas? First Slide

Humanists 100 • The practice of looking back to authors from Ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration and as literary models • What is Classicism? • First Slide

Humanists 200 • Petrarch developed this type of poem in writing about his beloved, Laura. • What is the sonnet? First Slide

Humanists 300 • Baldassare Castiglione looked back to Cicero when writing this work on the training of an ideal diplomat. • What is The Book of the Courtier? First Slide

Humanists 400 • Machiavelli wrote The Prince and this work on Republican government, which looks back to the Roman historian Livy • What is The Discourses? • First Slide

Humanists 500 • This Pope was himself a Humanist scholar, who wrote poetry and commentaries on his tenure as Pope • Who is Pius II? First Slide

Precursors 100 • In 1348 this disease became the scourge of Europe, killing between 25%-40% of the population • What is the Black Death/ Bubonic Plague? First Slide

Precursors 200 • This Italian author wrote a series of short stories, similar to Chaucer’s, that emphasized secular values and often satirized the greed of Churchmen • Who was Boccaccio? First Slide

Precursors 300 • In 1453 this city fell to the Ottoman Turks, causing Western Europe to lose access to the trade routes to India and China • What is Constantinople?

Precursors 400 • He led the Ottoman Turks to prominance with the final conquest of the Byzantine Empire. • Who was Mehmed I? First Slide

Precursors 500 • The Ottomans took Christian children as tribute and trained them to become these elite fighters and trusted civil servants • Who were the Janissaries? First Slide

Papal problems 100 • This term refers to a split in the Catholic Church during which time there were two or more Popes • What is the Great Schism? First Slide

Papal Problems 200 • During much of the fourteenth century the Popes resided in France, a period referred to as this. • What is the Babylonian captivity? First Slide

Peloponnesian War 300 • This council tried to end Papal difficulties in 1409, but only succeeded in increasing problems by electing a third Pope. • What is the Council of Pisa? First Slide

Papal Problems 400 • This city in France became the Papal court in the fourteenth century. • What is Avignon? First Slide

Papal Problems 500 • In addition to internal political problems, the papacy faced threats of infidels and these radical beleivers who practiced improper religious beliefs. The Papacy established the Inquisition to deal with them • What are heretics? First Slide

Pot Luck 100 • The practice of favoring ones relatives for political offices or government patronage • What is nepotism? First Slide

Pot Luck 200 • The sale of religious offices for profit or other favors • What is Simony? First Slide

Pot Luck 300 • The end of the early Italian renaissance is marked by this country’s invasion of italy in 1494 • What is France? First Slide

Pot Luck 400 • These five Italian states competed for power and prestige during the Italian renaissance. • What are Florence, Naples, Milan, Venice and the Papal States? First Slide

Pot Luck 500 • This treaty kept Italy free from foreign powers for 40 years, during the fifteenth century. • What is the Peace of Lodi First Slide

Renaissance Jeopardy