Review: Renaissance

Which best describes the Renaissance?

• A time in history where people were mostly poor and had little freedom.

• A time in history when people had a renewed interest in ancient art, literature and knowledge.

• A time in history where people traveled to find food and never settled in one place.

• A time in history when people wanted to leave the cities and move to the country to farm.

What does the French word renaissance mean in English?

• recreate

• reemerge

• rebirth

• reinvent

Where did the Renaissance begin?

• Milan

• Italy

• Britain

• Florence

The city of _____________ is the center of trade, banking and manufacturing during the Renaissance.

• London

• Florence

• Paris

• Madrid

Which city-state developed a banking system that lent money and charged interest?

• Venice

• Genoa

• Milan

• Florence

Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?

• Italians were better Catholics

• Italy had better means of transportation

• Italy sat in the middle of the Silk Road

• New wealth from trade allowed Italians to focus on art and architecture

During the Renaissance, people became interested in

• mathematics.

• the ancient Greeks and Romans.

• Petrarch.

• gold.

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

An intellectual movement that focused on human potential, humans as individuals, and how humans work in society.

• Secular

• Patrons

• Merit

• humanism