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WorksheetsThe Italian Renaissance
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
Trade increased with ______________, bringing great wealth to Italian cities.
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
The wealth from ____________________ also helped promote, or support, the ideas and arts of the Renaissance.
painting
printing
churches
banking
a network of trade routes that stretched across Asia from China to the Mediterranean Sea
Trans-Saharan Route
Venice Road
Silk Road
Merchant's Path
inventor of the printing press
John Calvin
Niccolo Machiavelli
Cosimo de Medici
Johann Gutenburg
The Italian city of ______________________ was the birthplace of the Renaissance.
Florence
Milan
Naples
Genoa
Sponsors, or __________________, used their wealth to help artists produce great works of art.
humanists
patrons
protestants
scientists
_____________________ means rebirth and is the time period that came after the Middle Ages.
Reformation
Colonization
Reconstruction
Renaissance
_____________________ emphasized, or stressed, individual potential and was a movement to celebrate human abilities and actions.
Catholicism
humanism
patriotism
Protestantism
Renaissance artists and architects developed a renewed interest in classical culture. Which TWO civilizations represent the classical cultures that they wanted to study?
India
Greece
China
Rome
Which of the following were ways that the printing press impacted life in Europe? Choose all that apply.
Books could be printed faster.
More people could afford books.
Ideas about science and exploration spread quickly.
More people learned to read.
The Bible became increasingly available.
The ______________________ family were the greatest bankers in Florence and hired artists and architects to make their city beautiful.
Medici
da Vinci
Alighieri
Gutenburg
What subject did artists study to make their artwork more realistic?
anatomy
philosophy
mathematics
geography
Which artist is considered to be a classic example of a "Renaissance man" and is responsible for the image above?
Michelangelo
Cosimo de Medici
Leonardo da Vinci
Niccolo Machiavelli
Which Renaissance figure wrote a short book called The Prince to give political advice?
Johann Gutenburg
Desiderius Erasmus
Martin Luther
Niccolo Machiavelli
Which Renaissance artist painted the Sistine Chapel in St. Peter's Cathedral and created a statue of the Hebrew king David?
Leonardo da Vinci
Petrarch
Michelangelo
Gutenburg
Which Italian merchant wrote about his travels to China and helped trade between Europe and Asia to grow?
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortes
Marco Polo
Which of the following scientists questioned and challenged traditional beliefs and church teachings leading to the development of new scientific fields and principles? Choose all that apply.
Copernicus
Kepler
Galileo
Gutenburg
Newton
In which part of Europe, did scholars first begin to criticize the church and accuse them of corruption?
Western
Northern
Eastern
Southern
