Humanities Test 2

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CHAPTER 6
What year was the Fall of Rome?
476 AD
What is the name of the Period following the Fall of Rome?
Dark Ages (Medieval Period)
What is a symbol of ignorance and chaos?
Darkness
What was the main idea and only source of unity within a chaotic empire?
Christianity
What is the most powerful institutuion to emerge in Europe upon the fall of Rome?
Christian Church
What does sacred mean?
Religious (Holy)
What does secular mean?
Not religious
Which one was more common? Secular or Sacred?
Sacred
What does the term 'Katholikos' mean in latin?
Undivided, no boundaries, whole, universal, all-encompassing.
What is the Universal Christian Church?
Roman Catholic
What is the translation in English of 'pontiff' in latin?
Bridge
What is monotheism?
One God
From what religion did Christianity develop from?
Judaism
What are the three members of the Holy Trinity?
Father
Son
Holy Spirit
What is the symbol of the Holy Spirit?
The Dove
What is the blending of Jewish and Christian culture called?
Judeo-Christian
What is the English translation of 'Biblos'?
Book
What are the two parts of the Bible?
Old Testament
New Testament
Who is said to be the writer of the first 5 books of the Old Testament?
Moses
Which part of the Bible is composed of the prayers and readers of the ancient Hebrews?
Old Testament
Who wrote the New Testament
Followers of Jesus
What is the style of architecture that emerges in medieval Europe after the fall of Rome?
Romanesque
What other styles does this style combine?
Roman
Greco-Roman
Egyptian
What was the main theme of medieval art?
Religious
What was the purpose of Christian Art?
Didactic
Who was the best artist of the Medieval times?
Giotto
How long after the fall of Rome did he live?
900 years
What are two of his paintings?
Madonna Enthroned
St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata
What does 'Madonna' translate to?
My Lady
What are the stigmata?
Tools used to crucify Jesus
(True/False) Most of the Medieval Music was Secular
False
What was the Pope to which God said that the world needed to be unified through music?
Pope Gregory
What are the squiggly lines and dots that were the first step on the evolution of music notation?
Neumes
What are the five lines and four spaces where this notation were placed?
Staff
(True/False) Gregorian Chants were composed by Pope Gregory.
False
What composed the Gregorian Chants?
Voice only
What does 'A Cappella' translate to?
in the chapel
What composes 'A Cappella'?
Voice only
Were the Gregorian Chants Monophonic or Polyphonic?
Monophonic
What does Monophony mean?
One melody
CHAPTER 7
What were the 5 steps to rebirth?
Church Libraries
Contact with Islam
Universities
Rise of the Merchant Class
Printing Press
What was the most common book in Church Libraries?
The Bible
What is the name given to the mix of Plato and Christian ideals?
Neo-Platonism
(True/False) Was the Islamic society considered advanced?
True
What was studied at the Universities?
Theology
Philosophy
Law and Medicine
Humanities
Why were they called 'Artes Liberales'?
Because they liberate from ignorance
What was the first ever Printing Press?
Gutenberg Press
What was the first ever book printed in Europe with a Printing Press?
Gutenberg Bible
What architecture style emerges in Europe around 1100?
Gothic
What characterizes this style?
Full of Light
What is the support system that makes possible for the building to stand despite all windows?
Flying Buttress
What is the format of the Gothic arches?
Pointy
What does renaissance mean?
Rebirth
What are the three main ideas of the renaissance?
Greco-Roman Antiquity
Humanism
Judeo-Christian
Who wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Men?
Pico della Mirandola
Who are the main painters of the renaissance?
Alessandro Botticelli
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
What is the technoque that uses light and darkness to create depht called?
Chiaroscuro
What is the technique that uses gradual blending of light and dark thorugh shading called?
Sfumato
What is the technique that involves painting on fresh wet plaster because it is more durable called?
Fresco
Who was to Milan as the Medici were to Florence?
Ludovico Sforza
To what religion was this person related?
None
To whom did this man gave the painting of the "Last Supper" by Michelangelo?
The Church
What in the central headquarters of the Roman Christian Church?
Vatican
In the middle of what city is this headquarters located?
Rome
Who was the head of the Medici familiy?
Lorenzo de Medici
Who was commissioned by the Government of Florence to make a statue that would be on the top of the Church?
Michelangelo
What was that statue called?
David
What are the statues of Mary holding Jesus called?
Pieta
What is the meaning of this word in English?
Compassion
What Pope approached Michelangelo to design his tomb?
Pope Julius II
What is the most famous statue on this tomb?
Moses
What is the polyphonic music that emerges in the Renaissance called?
Palestrina
What does polyphonic mean?
Many melodies
What are the renaissance secular songs called?
Madrigal
What is the most famous of these songs?
Matona Mia Cara
CHAPTER 8
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