Q2 - World History - 7.40 - 7.52

The Renaissance began in...

• Germany

• Spain

• Italy

• France

Renaissance artist who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted The David.

• Jan van Eyck

• Michelangelo

• Machiavelli

• Leonardo da Vinci

Invented the movable type printing press.

• Petrarch

• Johann Gutenberg

• Erasmus

• Sir Thomas More

Which is NOT an impact of the Gutenberg Press

• Books were cheaper

• Literacy rates increased

• People began to study the Bible for themselves

• Literacy rates decreased

Who wrote Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, and Macbeth?

• Machiavelli

• Shakespeare

• Virgil

• Homer

Intellectual movement that focused on human potential and studying subjects like rhetoric, history, poetry, and grammar.

• Humanism

• Middle Ages

• Classical Era

• Crusades

The term “Renaissance” means

• darkness.

• rebirth

• science

• All of the above

During the Renaissance, there was a focus on

• Ancient Chinese ideas

• superstition

• Ancient Greek and Roman ideas

• the Dark Ages.

Where did the Renaissance begin in

• Tokyo, Japan

• London, England

• Florence, Italy

• North America

Humanists believed that humans could

progress and better understand the world through the pursuit of

• wealth.

• learning the humanities.

• war.

• All of the above