Quiz: Europe and the New World (Norton 123-134)

• Which people could "vary their garb and dress above their station", and why?
• What, according to the textbook, separates Renaissance (or "early modern") protagonists like Hamlet and Don Quixote from their medieval predecessors"?
• On what "fronts" was Renaissance Europe "undergoing revolutionary change"?
• What inventions, according to Tommasso Campanella, signified "the union of the entire world"?
• What "empire" came about in 1492, and by the expulsion or defeat of what other faiths?
• What authors were inspired by accounts of the new world to question "European...peculiarities" of culture?
• What were some side effects of "the tremendous influx of wealth from the New World" in Europe?
• Summarize the revolutionary thinking, according to the textbook, of either Machiavelli or Castiglione.
• What language did every "cultivated person" know, and what was one result of that knowledge?
• List some qualities that made Petrach the "archetypal humanist."
• In the sense of "the performer's power on earth," what was "the purpose of life"?
• Who, according the Renaissance people studying antiquity, were the true "dispensers of glory"?
• In what sense, according to the text, were Descartes and Montaigne skeptics?
• What was Renaissance melancholy, according to the text?
• What was one reason why the period is aoften called "early modern" rather than a "rebirth"?