Renaissance Review

The Printing Press helped spread the ideas of the Renaissance. Who invented it and when?

•  Leonardo da Vinci, 1455
• Leonardo da Vinci, 1550
•  Gutenberg, 1550
• Gutenberg, 1455 

As a result of the printing press...

•  ideas and knowledge spread across Europe
•  Literacy and Education increased
•  Rensaissance, reformation and other movements were energized
• All are true 

What country is considered to be the birthplace of the Renaissance? 

•  France
•  England
•  Italy 
•  Spain

 Money to support the arts in Renaissance Italy came primarily from

•  industry
•  commerce 
•  agriculture
•  construction

What is the Renaissance?

•  The period following World War I
• Surge of interest in classical (Greek and Roman) learning
• feudal era
• important people that had no impact

The decline of feudalism and the emergence of artisans and craftsmen was in part caused by

• emergence of universities
•  Bubonic plague
•  new church policies
• new foods form America

Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?

• Italy's history and geography, its city-states
• Italy has pasta
• Italy is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean
• Italy is in Northern Europe

The Spanish author of Don Quixote

• William Shakespeare
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Leonardo di Vinci
• Albercht Durer

a system of thought or action concerned with human interest and values

• interestism
• capitalism
• humanism
• florentine

The English playwright and poet who remains one of the greatest figures in world literature was____.

• Miguel de Cervantes
• Petrarch
• Leonardo di Vinci
• William Shakespeare