World History Chapter 2 Renaissance

An artist who made sketches of flying machines centuries before the first airplane.

• Johann Gutenberg

• Flanders

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Florence

• Niccolo Machiavelli

Wrote a guide for rulers on how to gain and keep power.

• Johann Gutenberg

• Flanders

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Florence

• Niccolo Machiavelli

Started a printing revolution.

• Johann Gutenberg

• Flanders

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Florence

• Niccolo Machiavelli

The city that produced many Renaissance artists and scholars with the support of the Medici family.

• Johann Gutenberg

• Flanders

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Florence

• Niccolo Machiavelli

A thriving trading region where the northern Renaissance began.

• Johann Gutenberg

• Flanders

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Florence

• Niccolo Machiavelli

What was one way that Renaissance artists reflected the new ideas of humanism?

• By painting scenes that appeared two-dimensional.

• By painting stylized rather than realistic people.

• By painting large, Gothic-style buildings.

• By painting well-known people of the day.

What major theme of the northern Renaissance did Albrecht Durer's engravings portray?

• scenes from peasant life

• social art

• religious upheaval

• realistic portraits of women

How did Humanist scholars differ from medieval scholars?

• Humanists rejected the learning of Greece and Rome.

• Humanists used Latin as their language for scholarship.

• Humanists tended to focus more on worldly subjects (i.e. real world).

• Humanists tended to focus on more spirituality.

What was the age of great change marked by renewed interest in classical learning and the arts called?

• Reformation

• Middel Ages

• Renaissance

• Medieval Enlightenment

Who assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts preserving the works of Cicero, Homer, and Virgil?

• Francesco Petrarch

• Thomas More

• Francis Bacon

• Thomas Cranmer