The Northern Renaissance: Crash Course European History #3

The Renaissance was shaped and promoted by the discovery of _____________ in the mid-15th century?

• telegraph

• printing press

• artwork

• Queen Elizabeth

What problems did Gutenberg's printing press solve? (check all that apply)

• Most books in Europe were copied from other books slowly by hand

• Copying books by hand was expensive so most people could not afford them.

• Copying books by hand introduced errors into texts

How many books were printed in the first 50 years the printing press was in Europe?

• 20 million

• 50

• 150

• 1,500

“________________________________ meant that far more people had the opportunity to encounter far more voices from across time and space.”

• kings

• Petrach

• printing

• Italy

Brueghel’s ___________________________________ is a famous secular work from the Renaissance. Describe one interesting or bizarre thing you see happening in this painting

• David

• School of Athens

• Dutch Proverbs

• Saturn Devouring His Son

European Universities began "spending less time studying religious texts" and? (check all that apply)

• more time investigating the human condition

• thinking about how to organize human societies

• how to establish and enforce laws.

Who is known as the “Prince of the Humanists?” Why does he earn this title?

• Petrarch

• Queen Elizabeth

• Michaelangelo

• Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam

What did Erasmus say was important in The Education of a Christian Prince? (check all that apply)

• Erasmus said to study the classics and the deeds of worthy ancient leaders

• Erasmus also emphasized the importance of reading the Bible and the leading Christian authors

• He advocated for a middle road between the pagan ancients and the more recent Christian thinkers

What is the Republic of Letters?

• Gutenberg's Printing Press

• A growing international community of humanists in Europe who corresponded with some five hundred people around Europe,

• Italian Renaissance

• Protestant Reformation

What famous advice did Machiavelli give to a ruler in The Prince?

• , "Luther hatched a different bird entirely."

• "Kings should rule how they wish as peasants are worthless"

• "Torture your citizens and feed them to wolves"

• "One should wish to be both, but because it is difficult to united them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved."