15.1 Ques. (7.40-7.42)

1. By the 1300s, what had weakened feudalism and manorialism of the early middle ages?

• Christianity
• Islam
• Trade and industry
• Mongolian invasions
• Barbarian invasions

2. The economic expansion attributed to urban (city) growth came from migrants who moved from the rural manors to the cities.

• True
• False

5. Theology is the study of religions, but new interests in secular (non-religious) studies included law, medicine, philosophy, and science during the early 14th century.

• True
• False

9. In Italian city-states, the older wealthy families competed for power and status with new wealthy merchants and bankers. What were the newly rich called that supported gifted (yet poor) artists and and architects?

• Renaissance thinkers
• Catholic friars
• painters
• patrons
• Ninja Turtles

10. Which of the following did wealthy patrons NOT support?

• artists
• architects
• farmers
• sculptors

11. How was Italy's location a factor in it becoming the birthplace of the Renaissance?

• It was the leader of the European empire
• It was centrally located for religious reasons and to spread Catholicism.
• Because it was near the Mediterranean Sea, Italy was a crossroads between northern Europe and the Middle East & Africa
• The pope lived in Italy and had the power to appoint the next emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• The most educated and wealthiest Europeans lived in Italy and had the means to support themselves and their art and sculpting.

13. Florentine merchants also spent money on artistic projects, and many artists were sought after by guilds and civic groups to work alongside other artists to create larger projects, such as cathedrals.

• True
• False

14. Which of the following can be identified as new viewpoints developed during the Renaissance? (Choose 3)

• secularism
• humanism
• individualism
• theology
• vernacular

15. The new learning of the Renaissance suggested that human beings and the world deserved as much study as...?

• geography
• Roman & Greek classical texts
• European history
• God

18. Which of the following is NOT something a humanist would study?

• philosophy
• microbiology
• poetry
• religious themes