Humanism & the Printing Press

What timeframe is known as the rebirth of culture and art in Europe after the Middle Ages. Centered in Italy.

• Classical

• Renaissance

• Feudalism

• Dark Ages

_________________refers to the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome. Renaissance artists were inspired by ___________ ideas.

• Renaissance

• Humanism

• Italy

• Classical

Humanists formed a belief in the importance of the individual during the study of classical culture. It was called:

• Classical

• Medieval

• Humanism

• Vernacular

Select all that apply. What is the difference between Humanism vs. the Church?

• Humanists focused on the present, the church on the afterlife

• The Church believed you should pay tithe and the humanists did not.

• The Church liked macaroni and the humanists liked spaghetti.

• Humanists believed people should use their minds and question, the church wanted you to follow its teachings without question.

Whose belief was this? Humanist or the Church: believe that people have the ability to think for themselves and create their own life. People can do this apart from social class or family.

• Humanist

• Church

________________areas of study that focuses on human life and culture, such as: history, literature, and ethics.

• The study of art

• The study of life

• The study of humanities

• The study of opera

Inventor of movable type printing press.

• The Chinese

• Printing Press

• The Pope

• Johannes Gutenberg

What did the printing press do? Select all that apply.

• Allowed for the faster spread of knowledge.

• More people learned to read.

• People were able to buy the printing press.

• It was able to make paper.

What was the importance of the Printing Press?

• It saved animals.

• It made work harder.

• Before, books were written by hand. This took a long time. The new press could produce 300 pages in a single day.

• It caused people to hate reading.

What is the name of a short book discussing a particular idea?

• A book

• An essay

• A flyer

• A pamphlet