Renaissance "New Ideas and Literature"

Who wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha

• Miguel de Cervantes

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Dante Alighrieri

• Leonardo da Vinci

Who developed a moveable type of printing press?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Dante Alighieri

• Johannes Gutenberg

• William Shakespeare

Who wrote The Divine Comedy?

• Dante Alighieri

• William Shakespeare

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Hamlet

The idea that individual and human society were important.

• Humanism

• Democrary

• Human Rights

• Feudalism

Considered one of the greatest scientists of the Renaissance.

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Christopher Columbus

Humanism was based on the values of what two ancient groups of people?

• Egyptians and Greeks

• Greeks and Turks

• Israelites and Romans

• Romans and Greeks

Humanist ideas led to advances in _____, or the art of making maps.

• Geometry

• Geography

• Cartography

• Cardiology

Educated people wrote in Latin, but when writers wanted to reach more people, they wrote in the ______, or the everyday language of a region

• Slang

• Jargon

• Books

• Vernacular

What invention the mid-1400s was key to the spread of humanist ideas throughout Europe?

• Compass

• Electricity

• Printing Press

• Telephone

What did humanists encourage men to do?

• Get rich or die trying

• to be active in their cities and achieve great things

• Count their money while they were sitting at the table

• Get lost in the woods