Renaissance era Grade 6 History

Renaissance means...

• rebirth

• start of a new thing

Gunpowder was invented by the

• Russians

• Italians

• Chinese

• Americans

Who invented the Magnetic Compass

• Russians

• Chinese

• AMericasn

• Europeans

Why did the Europeans go on voyages of exploration to the Far East?

• They wanted to get spices from INdia

• They wanted to spread Christanity through the missionaresi

• They wanted to gain wealth from other countries like India and China. They could make a profit.

• They wanted to see the world and see what they could do in other countries.

Other problems on the VOC ships for the sailors were:

• The water was stale

• there was no privacy

• Prisoners had no choice or they would die

• it was an easy life on the ships

Life on a VOC ship as a sailor was hard. choose which three are correct statements.

• It took a very long time to get to where they needed to go by ship

• The food was very bad

• the sailors suffered from scurvy

• They were treated like kings and queens on the ships

Galileo discovered...

• the theory of gravity and falling bodies

• Worked out the laws of the pendulum

• did important work on sound and light

• invented the telescope

Galileo believed that the

• Earth and all the planets revolved around the Sun

• Sun revolved around the Earth

• planets revolve around the moon

Galileo Galilei was a famous.....

• renaissance Scientist

• astronomer

• artist

• sailor

Da Vinci is famous for....

• The flying machine

• The caravel

• Master of Anatomy (the human body)

• inventing the helicopter

• the Mona Lisa