The Renaissance

What years did the Renaissance take place?

• 1000-1300

• 1920-1970

• 1300-1600

• 1200-1500

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Which word does NOT belong with the others?

• Renaissance

• Rinascita

• Reconnoiter

• Rebirth

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In what country did the Renaissance begin?

• Italy

• England

• Greece

• America

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What came before the Renaissance?

• Gothic

• Trojan War

• Middle Ages

• Ice Age

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The idea that man was the center of his own universe is known as

• enlightenment

• rebirth

• humanism

• philosophy

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Which of the following does not describe Florence, Italy in the 1400's

• It was like most places in Europe at that time

• It was divided into independent city-states

• it was the cultural center of Europe

• It was a banking and commercial capital

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It was because of the patronage of wealthy elites (giving money to the arts) that writers and thinkers could enjoy travel, arts, and classical philosophy texts.

• True

• False

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Which of the following was encouraged by humanism?

• curiosity

• experimentation

• observation

• all of these

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Which of the following is NOT a Renaissance intellectual?

• Galileo

• Frida Kahlo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Johannes Gutenberg

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Who built the telescope?

• Galileo

• Da Vinci

• Thomas Edison

• Isaac Newton

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