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WorksheetsThe Northern Renaissance: Crash Course European History #3
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins
The Renaissance was shaped and promoted by the discovery of _____________ in the mid-15th century?
telegraph
printing press
artwork
Queen Elizabeth
What problems did Gutenberg's printing press solve? (check all that apply)
Most books in Europe were copied from other books slowly by hand
Copying books by hand was expensive so most people could not afford them.
Copying books by hand introduced errors into texts
How many books were printed in the first 50 years the printing press was in Europe?
20 million
50
150
1,500
“________________________________ meant that far more people had the opportunity to encounter far more voices from across time and space.”
kings
Petrach
printing
Italy
Brueghel’s ___________________________________ is a famous secular work from the Renaissance. Describe one interesting or bizarre thing you see happening in this painting
David
School of Athens
Dutch Proverbs
Saturn Devouring His Son
European Universities began "spending less time studying religious texts" and? (check all that apply)
more time investigating the human condition
thinking about how to organize human societies
how to establish and enforce laws.
Who is known as the “Prince of the Humanists?” Why does he earn this title?
Petrarch
Queen Elizabeth
Michaelangelo
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
What did Erasmus say was important in The Education of a Christian Prince? (check all that apply)
Erasmus said to study the classics and the deeds of worthy ancient leaders
Erasmus also emphasized the importance of reading the Bible and the leading Christian authors
He advocated for a middle road between the pagan ancients and the more recent Christian thinkers
What is the Republic of Letters?
Gutenberg's Printing Press
A growing international community of humanists in Europe who corresponded with some five hundred people around Europe,
Italian Renaissance
Protestant Reformation
What famous advice did Machiavelli give to a ruler in The Prince?
, "Luther hatched a different bird entirely."
"Kings should rule how they wish as peasants are worthless"
"Torture your citizens and feed them to wolves"
"One should wish to be both, but because it is difficult to united them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved."
Machiavelli took a so-called "realist" view of politics which meant
he believed a ruler should be kind to his people.
he focused on how a ruler could maintain power more rather than it meant to be a noble person.
he thought a ruler should writes book and go to a university.
he considered it best for a ruler to give up his power.
In "Art of War" Machiavelli argued that rulers needed to prepare for war by studying great military leaders of the past, and he believed that effective military leadership was vital to effective political leadership because those who win wars get to gain peace on their terms.
True
False
Thomas More who wrote the classic book Utopia, which
imagines a future with iPhones and classes with great history teachers like Mr. Rogers.
imagines a dystopia or a future full of death and destruction.
imagines a world ruled by fellow humanists and painters.
imagines a society without private property, where reason and cooperation have replaced struggles for glory and power.
What does the Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan argue?
That women can be virtuous leaders, and rational beings, and leadership by virtuous women could beget virtuous communities.
That women's place in society should be below that of men.
That kings should rule with an iron fist.
That humanistic analysis could lead to widespread peace and prosperity
