The Renaissance

What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

• Renewed

• Rebuilt

• Remade

• Rebirth

Which of the following cities was an important center during the early Renaissance?

• Florence
• London
• Ghent
• Paris

One factor that enabled the Renaissance to flourish in Northern Italy was that the region had

• A wealthy class that invested in the arts
• A socialist form of government
• Limited contact with the Byzantine empire
• A shrinking middle class

A person who supports an activity or institution by providing financial backing.

• Renaissance
• Humanism
• arts
• patron

  An Italian Renaissance painter, born in 1452 A.D., who painted many masterpieces, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and also excelled in scientific research.

• Florence
• city-state
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Brunelleschi

 The most famous English writer of the Renaissance, best known for his plays Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.

• Shakespeare
• Michelangelo
• Raphael
• Petrarch

 A German who, in the mid-1400s, invented a press for printing with movable type.

• Johann Gutenberg
• Elizabethan Age
• Renaissance Man
• vernacular

The buying and selling of goods; business.

• commerce

• Humanism

• arts

• patron

What governing family was known as the largest patrons of the arts produced in Florence, Italy?

• The Medicine family

• The Michelangelo family

• The Medici family

How did Gutenberg's printing press impact Europe?

• it decreased literacy throughout the continent

• it allowed literature to be mass produced

• it allowed more people to train and join the priesthood

• it decreased the production of navigational maps