G-4/5: Renaissance Introduction

G-4/6: Renaissance Introduction

Multiple Choice

Many workers died during the plague (Black Death). How did their deaths affect those who remained?

• They were able to demand better pay and more rights.

• They were forced to return to a feudal economy.

• They could no longer live in cities, so they moved to farms.

• They were able to buy their own businesses and get rich.

Multiple Choice

How did the plague impact Europe?

• People started to question the church

• 1/3 of the population died

• It contributed to the decline of feudalism

• All are correct

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Effects of the Crusades included

• continued decline of feudalism

• rise of a merchant class in Europe

• cultural diffusion between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean

• increased intolerance for non-Christians

• a greater need and use for money instead of trading goods (bartering)

Multiple Choice

What advantages did a member get from being in a guild?

• training in a craft and help when sick
• automatic position as master
• protection from raiders like the Vikings
• all of the above

Multiple Choice

What were guilds in the Middle Ages?

• a type of coin
• places where men studied religion
• groups of craftsmen
• large buildings built for protection

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Land was to the feudal system as ________ is to modern society.

• Money
• Real estate
• Education
• Politics

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What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

• Renewed
• Rebuilt
• Remade
• Rebirth

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Which of the following is NOT a reason why the Renaissance began in Italy?

• Wealthy Italian patrons supported the arts
• Cultural diffusion encouraged curiosity and spread Arab and African ideas
• The Black Plague did not hit Italy as a result of the Alps 
• Renewed interest in the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome

Multiple Choice

Humanists believe...

• science provides the best method for understanding the universe.

• religion is needed for a complete understanding of the universe.

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Humanists believe...

• life has no meaning.

• God and an afterlife are necessary for life to have any meaning.

• we can make our own lives meaningful and there are many different ways we can do this.

Multiple Choice

Humanists thought you should question everything.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Humanists prized individual achievement more that a person's class or family.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Humanists beliefs about the individual were very similar to medieval beliefs about the individual.

• True
• False