The artistic movement in which artificiality, grace, and elegance was valued over ordered balance and lifelike references is known as __________.

A. Mannerism
B. the High Renaissance
C. the Counter-Reformation
D. the Northern tradition


Answer: A

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What will be an ideal response?

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Why was Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press so important for European history?

A. It is an example of Europe taking technologies form China. B. It was commissioned by the new king of England and helped solidify Britain as a world power. C. It aided the Protestant Reformation by making humanist works and Bibles more accessible. D. It provided the technology for greater military weaponry.

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Nerva was said to have adopted Trajan as his successor according to the instructions of

A) ?the deified Augustus. B) ?the god Jupiter. C) ?Trajan's army. D) ?Trajan's biological family.

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