Northern Renaissance Review

When we refer to the NORTHERN Renaissance, what countries are included? Check ALL that apply.

• England

• China

• Germany

• France

• Italy

Which of the following influenced spread of Renaissance ideas from Italy to Northern Europe?

• Trade

• Movement of artists/scholars

• Development of printing

• All of the above

This organization protected ships from pirates, built lighthouses and made it easier to trade goods throughout Europe

• North American Fair Trade Agreement

• Hanseatic League

• National Football League

• European Union

Italian artists fled north due to _____ between city-states and brought _________ ideas with them

• wars, religious

• peace, humanist

• peace, religious

• wars, humanist

Northern Renaissance artists travelled to ______ for ______ and brought their ideas back home with them

• China, trade

• Italy, education

• Ireland, potatoes

• United States, education

This guy popularized the movable type in Germany during the 1400s, making it much easier to print written works

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Erasmus

• Sir Thomas More

• Jan van Eyk

The printing press is important because

• It allowed books to be printed much faster and cheaper

• Books became available to more people

• More people learned to read and ideas spread quicker

• All of the above

This man created "Christian Humanism", and wrote about a pure Christian life without politics & rituals of the church

• Pieter Brughel

• Erasmus

• Albrecht Durer

• William Shakespeare

Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia, which is...

• a book that criticizes English government & society

• creates an idea of a what a perfect society looks like (even though it doesn’t exist)

• Both

• Neither

Shakespeare was an English playwright who.. Check all that apply

• Wrote many plays that touched on humanist and scientific topics, a big change from topics in the past

• Focused on the lives of realistic characters and expressed human nature

• Wrote many plays that touched on only religious topics

• wrote plays that were extremely popular among people of all social classes