The Renaissance and Reformation

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The Renaissance was a rebirth of these two classical cultures: Greece and Rome

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Greece and Rome

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The Renaissance began in the city-states of this European country

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Italy

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The Renaissance means

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Rebirth

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What is the best definition of humanism?

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The belief that all humans are important and valuable and that they all have equal potential to succeed.

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In 1450, this man invented the movable type printing press in Europe

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Johannes Gutenberg

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The printing press increased these two things in Europe: Knowledge and literacy, wars and literacy, corruption and knowledge, religious belief and wars.

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Knowledge and literacy

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What was the first and most widely printed book in Europe?

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The Bible

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All of the following were Renaissance artists EXCEPT: Michaelangelo, da Vinci, Raphael, Medici

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Medici

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Which of the following statements would be made by a humanist? "Religion holds the key to all life's questions.", "Education can make every man great.", "Only nobles will be successful in business and life", "Alien life controls life on earth"

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"Education can make every man great."

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Which of the following characterized thinking in the Renaissance? A devotion to God and the upkeep of a strict social hierarchy, A return to classical learning and a belief in human potential, A reliance on Eastern traditions and the belief that life is suffering, A dark age devoted to hard work and little else

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A return to classical learning and a belief in human potential