Unit 6A Renaissance

The Medici family helped the city of Florence become one of the most powerful and wealthy cities in Europe through

• trade and banking.

• religion and politics.

• warfare and inventions.

• exploration and manufacturing.

Which statement about the Renaissance is accurate?

• The Renaissance failed to develop new political ideas.

• The Renaissance began in Northern Europe due to its vast resources.

• The Renaissance was purely motivated by changes in art and architecture.

• The Renaissance began in the Italian city-states largely because of geography.

Which option best explains how the ideas of the Renaissance spread to the rest of Europe?

• merchants traveling across Europe

• soldiers conquering parts of Europe

• kings making new laws across Europe

• monks starting up new churches in Europe

Humanism during the Italian Renaissance was most focused on

• new political theories.

• writing of church laws.

• the importance of the individual.

• the desire to increase personal wealth.

Which Humanistic point of view represents a main philosophy of the Renaissance?

• The glorification of human beings is sinful.

• Art should be studied above all other subjects.

• Religious doctrines should be the focus of study.

• Greek and Roman civilizations are worthy of study.

Mongols protect trade on Silk Road ---->Italian merchants

trade with Byzantine and Arab merchants---> More and easier trade allows prices of goods to drop---> ?

Which statement completes the sequence diagram?

• Warfare breaks out between Europeans and the Mongols.

• Europeans adopt cultural beliefs and practices of China.

• Demand for luxury goods increases in Europe.

• Goods manufactured in Asia decrease.

Renaissance begins in Italy--->Italian city-states increase their trade and wealth--->Competition between city-states leads to better art work---> ?

What is the third main reason that completes the list?

• The city-states were united under a strong monarch

• Better artwork was needed to offset a declining literacy rate

• The ruins of ancient Rome reminded the people of the accomplishments in their past.

• Art and literature were easier to come by as fewer Italians had been killed by the Black Death

The map above helps explain

• how Europe was attacked by empires in North Africa and Southwest Asia.

• how the ideas of Humanism spread from Alexandria and Constantinople to Northern Europe.

• how the location of the Italian Peninsula and the trade routes made the city states so wealthy.

• how trade was limited in Southern Europe but flourished in the cities of Northern Europe.

Renaissance art was characterized by the

• increase in religious subject matter.

• concern for the human form and realism.

• abandonment of painting in favor of sculpture.

• focus on scenes of nature over all other subject matter.

“To understand Petrarch is to understand the Renaissance.”

“…He was the first scholar of the medieval time who fully realized and appreciated the supreme excellence and beauty of the classical literature and its value as a means of culture. His enthusiasm for the ancient writers was a sort of worship. At great cost of time and labor he made a collection of about two hundred manuscript volumes of the classics. Among his choicest Latin treasures were some of Cicero's letters, which he had himself discovered in an old library at Verona, and reverently copied with his own hand. He could not read Greek, yet he gathered Greek as well as Latin manuscripts. He had sixteen works of Plato and a revered copy of Homer sent him from Constantinople; and thus, as he himself expressed it, the first of poets and the first of philosophers took up their abode with him.

Petrarch's enthusiasm for the classical authors became contagious. Fathers reproached him for enticing their sons from the study of the law to the reading of the classics and the writing of Latin verses. But the movement started by Petrarch could not be checked. The impulse he imparted to humanistic studies is still felt in the world of letters and learning.”

- Excerpts from Philip Van Ness Myers, Medieval and Modern History (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1905), pp. 251-274

In the excerpt above, the author is using Petrarch as an example of how

• difficult studying the classics can be.

• humanism sparked a revival of interest in the classics.

• great artwork appeared in ancient texts that deserved attention.

• teachers considered poetry and philosophy the most important topics to study.