Renaissance | Form 8

The word "Renaissance" means...

The Renaissance started in

• France

• Portugal

• Italy

• Spain

Renaissance started in Italy, because...

• only the heritage of the Roman Empire

• Italy was the centre of science and art at the time

• economic reasons and heritage of the Roman Empire

The Renaissance was a period of time from the 13th to the 18th century in Europe

• True

• False

The term "Renaissance Man" refers to a person that is an expert and talented in many areas.

• True

• False

A humanist is someone who believes that...

• Men are superior than God

• Men are equal to God

• Men have capacities to be creative, smart and to build bigger things

• Men have capacities to understand God

Geocentrism was the theory that argued that...

• The Earth was the centre of the universe

• The sun was the centre of the universe

• The moon was the centre of the universe

Heliocentrism theory was argued by....

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

The ideal of "Renaissance men" refers to...

• an artist

• a men who had good civic and understood art

• an intellectual

• a men who had a good civic, was intellectual and cultivate a wide range of knowledge

The printing press made possible the dissemination of the new values. Who invented it?

• Joe Gutenberg

• John Gutenberg

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo