WorksheetsHumanism & the Printing Press
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What timeframe is known as the rebirth of culture and art in Europe after the Middle Ages. Centered in Italy.
Classical
Renaissance
Feudalism
Dark Ages
_________________refers to the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome. Renaissance artists were inspired by ___________ ideas.
Renaissance
Humanism
Italy
Classical
Humanists formed a belief in the importance of the individual during the study of classical culture. It was called:
Classical
Medieval
Humanism
Vernacular
Select all that apply. What is the difference between Humanism vs. the Church?
Humanists focused on the present, the church on the afterlife
The Church believed you should pay tithe and the humanists did not.
The Church liked macaroni and the humanists liked spaghetti.
Humanists believed people should use their minds and question, the church wanted you to follow its teachings without question.
Whose belief was this? Humanist or the Church: believe that people have the ability to think for themselves and create their own life. People can do this apart from social class or family.
Humanist
Church
________________areas of study that focuses on human life and culture, such as: history, literature, and ethics.
The study of art
The study of life
The study of humanities
The study of opera
Inventor of movable type printing press.
The Chinese
Printing Press
The Pope
Johannes Gutenberg
What did the printing press do? Select all that apply.
Allowed for the faster spread of knowledge.
More people learned to read.
People were able to buy the printing press.
It was able to make paper.
What was the importance of the Printing Press?
It saved animals.
It made work harder.
Before, books were written by hand. This took a long time. The new press could produce 300 pages in a single day.
It caused people to hate reading.
What is the name of a short book discussing a particular idea?
A book
An essay
A flyer
A pamphlet
_________________ means to spread throughout an area or region. The printing press helped to disseminate information.
Vernacular
Pamphlet
Disseminate
Johannes Gutenberg
It means common language of each country. The Bible was translated into English, German, and other common _________________.
Vernacular
Disseminate
Pamphlet
Printing Press
True or False: Interest in classical culture decreased during the Renaissance.
True
False
The word Renaissance can be translated as ________________.
Restoration
Record
Restore
Rebirth
Select all that apply: Why was the printing press important during the Renaissance?
It was took a long time to build.
It disseminated information to those who did not have access to it before
It encouraged people to learn to read, learn, and discover truth for themselves.
It greatly sped up the process of printing books making books more available to the common people.
Before this, books were copied by hand.
