The Renaissance

Name 3 events which occurred during the Middle Ages that helped move society in a new direction or a "rebirth".

​ ​ (a)   ​ ​ (b)   ​ (c)  

• religious confusion
• continuous warfare
• bubonic plague
• gasoline prices
• cheaper food
• better crops

Born in Italy around 1350, and this new direction after the Middle Ages has come to be known as the _______.

• Mesopotamian Period

• Age of Egypt

• prehistory

• renaissance

Artists, writers and scholars came together to find a new course for the civilization of ________Europe

• Northern

• Southern

• Eastern

• Western

The use of a _______allowed Galileo to prove Nicolaus Copernicus' theory that the earth rotates on its axis once a day.

• microscope

• speedometer

• seismograph

• telescope

Nicolaus Copernicus theorized that the earth rotates on its axis once a _______and rotates around the sun once a _______.

• second/hour

• hour/day

• day/year

• year/year

Nicolaus Copernicus theorized that the _______rotates on its axis once a day and rotates around the _______once a year.

• earth/sun

• sun/moon

• moon/stars

• stars/galaxy

The use of a _______revealed a hidden world existed in a single drop of water.

• telescope

• seismograph

• speedometer

• microscope

The leaders of the renaissance were called _______.

• humanists

• terrorists

• humorists

• legalists

Renaissance leaders interest focused on the works of the cultures of ancient _______ and _______.

• England/France

• Greece/Rome

• Spain/Portugal

• North and South America

Renaissance leaders studied ancient Greek and Roman books that had survived the Barbarians.

• Barbarians

• Spaniards

• Americans

• Asains