Renaissance II Reading Quiz

________________wrote about what it takes to be a perfect leader. A key point in his book The Prince is that “the end justifies the means.”

_____________________was an all-around Renaissance man. He was a painter, inventor, engineer, and sculptor. He drew ideas for many inventions that would not exist until years later, such as the airplane.

The ____ _____ was a famous painting.

______ _______was a playwright and poet. He wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and 35 other plays. He also wrote 154 sonnets.

__________ ___________ invented the printing press. This machine allowed books to be easily produced cheaper and faster than with the old-fashioned hand-copying methods used during the Middle Ages.

Renaissance thinkers were interested in the human experience. They believed humans could do anything. They examined ways to achieve _______

Renaissance thinkers produced works of _________________________that are still important today.

With the ___________________, ideas and information could be spread easily because books and pamphlets could be produced quickly and cheaply.

Da Vinci first made drawings of ___________