Renaissance and The Scientific Revolution

What was the Renaissance?

• a huge growth of festivals in Europe in the 19th Century

• a time period of huge growth in the arts and sciences in Europe around 1300-1500

• A war that lasted from 1300-1500 in Europe

• A revolution in the way things were made in Europe in the 19th Century

How did the Black Death lead to the Renaissance?

• It made people give more money to the Church, and the Church used its wealth to sponsor artists.

• It inspired writers and painters to make art that celebrated life in order to make people feel better.

• _When his brother died of the Black Death, Johannes Gutenberg inherited the print shop in which he would invent moveable type

• It decreased the population, so each person could have more resources, creating economic prosperity.

Which of these is not true of the Medici family?

• _They were the monarchs of Italy in the 1300s.

• _They ruled the city-state of Florence.

• They sponsored artists like Michelangelo.

• They helped Florence become a center of Renaissance thinking.

What did Gutenburg’s printing press allow people to do (how did it change the world)?

• books could be printed quickly, creating an explosion of books

• It allowed books to be flat and more easily stackable

• less people were able to read

• books became more expensive

Why did Copernicus get in trouble (how did his claims go against the mainstream of the time)?

• He claimed the Earth revolved around the Sun

• He claimed the Sun revolved around the Earth

• He paid artists for huge art projects, like the Sistine Chapel

• He never got in trouble

How did Galileo help prove Copernicus’s claims?

• He invented the telescope

• He invented the printing press

• He invented the Space Shuttle

• He invented the microscope

Did Galileo get in trouble too? If so, what happened to him?

• Yes - He was placed under house arrest

• No - He was honored by the Catholic church

• Yes - He was excecuted

• No - He was made a Bishop by the Pope

Which of these best represents the order of the scientific method?

• hypothesis, observation, analysis, experimentation, conclusion

• observation, hypothesis, experimentation, analysis, conclusion

• experimentation, hypothesis, observation, analysis, conclusion

• analysis, observation, hypothesis, experimentation, conclusion

a Polish astronomer who, in 1543, published a theory that the earth and other planets move around the sun.

• Martin Luther

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Henry VIII

Italian scientist and artist ________ made many important works during the 15th and 16th centuries. His paintings The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa are two of his most famous creations.

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Galileo