Middle Ages vs Renaissance

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What does the term Renaissance mean?

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rebirth

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What society did the people of the Renaissance look to for inspiration?

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The Greeks and Romans

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Which city became a symbol of the Italian Renaissance?

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Florence

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What was a key intellectual movement of the Italian Renaissance?

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Humanism

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Bonus: Which of these statements describes a change brought about by the Renaissance? Society was dominated by the church. Society began to value individualism. Society was focused on warfare. Society was dominated by lords.

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Society began to value individualism.

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During the Middle Ages, who would have been considered the most powerful person in Europe? Options: the Pope, a king, the richest merchant, Knights

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the Pope

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How did the Bubonic Plague spread to humans?

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Fleas carried the plague from infected rats to humans.

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The political and economic system that emerged in Europe during the Middle Ages was called

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feudalism

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What was one effect of the Crusades?

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they opened trading between Asia and the Middle East

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The Crusades were:

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military expeditions between Muslims and Christians to control the Holy Land ( Jerusalem )