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The _______ was one of the most destructive periods in European history.

• Black death

• Flu

• Tuberculosis

• Fever

The word renaissance means ______

• Death

• Joy

• Rebirth

• Anger

_______ society was structured around a feudal system

• British

• Scottish

• Dutch

• European

Copernicus, published a paper illustrating that the Earth orbited the Sun in ______

• 1532

• 1432

• 1332

• 1232

The rise of cities during the Renaissance also led to the growth of __________ and the importance of education.

• gym

• universities

• farm

• market

Knowledge from the __________ filtered into Europe and helped expand science and technology.

• West

• East

• South

• North

The class of people who were leaders and officials of the cities during the Renaissance were called the __________.

• peasant

• burghers

• nobility

• all of them

Copernicus proved that the Earth orbits the ______.

• Venus

• Sun

• Star

• Jupitor

The theory that the Earth orbited the Sun was not new and had been proposed 1800 years earlier by __________, a Byzantine scholar.

• Galileo

• Pythagoras

• Pluto

• Aristarchus of Samos 

What language does the word ‘renaissance’

come from?

• French

• Arabic

• English

• Italian