Northern Renaissance

What innovation shaped and promoted the ideas of the Renaissance?

• Movable type printing.

• Trade with the Americans.

• Trade with the Ottomans.

• The Protestant Reformation

Who is often given credit for the innovation of moveable type printing?

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Desiderius Erasmus

• Sir Thomas More

• Martin Luther

Though Gutenberg is often given credit for moveable type printing where did printing techniques first appear?

• China

• Korea

• Japan

• Mongolia

Why did printing catch on faster in Europe as compared to China?

• The Latin alphabet only had 26 letters.

• Innovations made it easier to eject and reset letters to form words.

• Europeans had a great capacity for written works.

• Christianity was a religion of the book.

Before Gutenberg's innovation of moveable type the majority of written works were

• reproduced by hand.

• maintained by oral traditions.

• maintained by a vibrant musical culture.

• reproduced by woodcuts.

Why didn't the majority of Europeans read at the beginning of the Renaissance?

• They couldn't read.

• They didn't have anything to read.

• They were morally opposed to reading.

• Individuals didn't have to read to do their jobs in agriculture.

Which of the following are examples of texts printed and read with the innovation of movable type?

• The great works from the classical world.

• Legal works

• The Bible

• All of the above

What is the name of this Northern Renaissance painting by Pieter Breughel which has scruffy royal villagers acting out ridiculous common wisdom.

• Dutch Proverbs

• Arnolfini Portrait

• Ghent Altarpiece

• The Garden of Earthly Delights

This was the idea that all social and political order stemmed from the exercise of the father's authority over the family unit.

• Paterfamilias

• Autarky

• Supremacy

• Absolutism

In both north and south, some humanists began regularly teaching what? Which involved the study of ancient Latin and Greek.

• Rhetoric

• Philosophy

• Mathematics

• Ethics