Review Renaissance and Scientific Revolution Lesson 1

During the Renaissance, humanist scholars ______.

• thought religion was more important than scholarship

• believed people should not develop their talents

• studied ancient Greek and Roman works

• thought communities were more important than individuals

In painting, the technique of perspective shows people and things ______.

• as flat and one-dimensional

• as they look at different distances

• as they look at different times

• as finely detailed and very complex

Humanist scholars began to write ______, which allowed more people to read the works.

• only in Italian

• in classical languages

• in vernacular languages

• only in English

Johannes Gutenberg produced the first printed book in Europe.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Person hired to paint the Vatican ceiling

• Micheangelo

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Raphael

• Titian

The School of Literature included these artists

• Leonardo Da Vinci, Rafael; Titian

• Petrarch, Machiavelli, Castiglioni

• Titan, Giotto, Machiavelli

What scientist proved that planets move in oval paths?

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

• Johannes Kepler

• Johannes Kepler

Which of the following statements is accurate?

• Gravity is the pull of the Earth and other bodies on objects at or near their surfaces.

• Gravity is the shape of the Earth's orbit around the sun.

• Gravity is the principle a body in motion tends to stay in motion.

• Gravity is the law that matter needs oxygen to burn.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered tiny organisms called ______.

• cells

• viruses

• bacteria

• atoms

Who discovered that materials need oxygen to burn?

• René Descartes

• Blaise Pascal

• Robert Hooke

• Antoine Lavoisier