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WorksheetsThe Renaissance: Was it a Thing? Crash Course World History
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 14mins
Renaissance saw the __________ of European culture
rebirth
continuation
end
beginning
The Renaissance occurred after what period in European history?
The Dark Ages
The Enlightenment
The Age of Exportation
The Age of Imperialism
The Middle Ages were "Dark" or saw limited learning and culture across the planet?
False
True
Which of the following best describes Renaissance art?
It focused on the idealized human form.
It idealized classical Greco-Roman art.
It focused on peoples true form.
It idealized Arab architecture.
The scholars who examined, translated, and commented upon Ancient & Arabic writings were called?
humanists
Ciompi
Monks
enlightened
Overall were the humanists writers and artists and scholars secretly not religious?
No
Yes
Humanist scholars studied what were called the humanities: literature, philosophy, history also known as the?
Liberal Arts
Core Studies
Nobles Studies
The Sciences
According to this episode of Crash Course the Renaissance occurred between
15th and 16th centuries-ish
13th and 14th centuries-ish
14 and 15th centuries-ish
16 - 17th centuries-ish
Where did the Renaissance begin?
Italy
The Netherlands
Germany
Constantinople
What reason does Crash Course give for Italy being primed for the Renaissance?
Money
It's social structure.
It's historical significance.
Population
Italy was full of these mini-industrial powerhouses which specialized in industrial products which grew wealth from trade?
Italian city states
Micronations
Megalopolises
Caliphates
This Italian city state was known for its cloth production and was home to the Medici family.
Florence
Milan
Venice
Genoa
Which Italian city state was the richest of them all due to its trade with Islamic Empires?
Venice
Milan
Florence
Genoa
The Venetians traded with what economic power in the region allowing them to become the wealthiest of the Italian city-states?
the Ottomans.
the Safavids.
the Mughals.
the Abbasids
What trade good did Venice make a large portion of its wealth from?
pepper
salt
chilis
tea
This wealthy Florentine family gained their wealth via banking and a monopoly on mining alum allowing them to be one of the primary patrons of the Renaissance.
Medicis
Hapsburgs
Bourbons
Borgia
The fall of what city in 1453 to the Ottomans shifted the balance of trade in the Mediterranean?
Constantinople
Venice
Damascus
Rome
Which scientific figure was mentioned in today's episode that may have used an Arib text to assist him in his proofs of a heliocentric solar system?
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Aristotle
Galileo
What arguments did John make that the Renaissance did not happen?
The problem of time. It occurred over hundreds of years.
Most people in Europe were totally unaware of the Renaissance, because it's art and learning affected a tiny sliver of the European population.
Life expectancy in many areas of Europe actually went down during the Renaissance.
We have constructed the Renaissance as important to fit a narrative that Europe was enlightened, and then it was unenlightened, and then it was re-enlightened.
