Renaissance

What does the word renaissance mean?

• recreate

• reemerge

• rebirth

• reinvent

When did the Renaissance occur?

• 1300s–1600s

• 1300s–1500s

• 1200s–1600s

• none of these

Where did the Renaissance begin?

• Milan

• Italy

• Britain

• Florence

During the Renaissance, people became interested in

• mathematics.

• the ancient Greeks and Romans.

• Petrarch.

• gold.

Who is considered the father of humanism?

• Petrarch

• Kepler

• Galileo

• Gutenberg

Why were the Medicis important to the Renaissance?

• The commissioned many expeditions.

• They started a university in Florence.

• They believed in the teachings of Luther.

• They were patrons of the arts.

What invention helped to spread the ideas of the Renaissance?

• the printing press

• the caravel

• the telescope

• eyeglasses

Who was Johann Gutenberg?

• the inventor of the telescope

• the inventor of the printing press

• the founder of the laws of planetary motion

• a religious reformer

Why were Copernicus’ proposals about the solar system so unique?

• People believed that Earth was the center of the universe.

• People believed that the Moon was the center of the universe.

• People believed that the Sun was the center of the universe.

• People believed that Earth was flat.

In what field is Vesalius famous?

• astronomy (space)

• anatomy (body)

• Latin literature

• sculpture (carved pictures)