WorksheetsNorthern Renaissance Review
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
When we refer to the NORTHERN Renaissance, what countries are included? Check ALL that apply.
England
China
Germany
France
Italy
Which of the following influenced spread of Renaissance ideas from Italy to Northern Europe?
Trade
Movement of artists/scholars
Development of printing
All of the above
This organization protected ships from pirates, built lighthouses and made it easier to trade goods throughout Europe
North American Fair Trade Agreement
Hanseatic League
National Football League
European Union
Italian artists fled north due to _____ between city-states and brought _________ ideas with them
wars, religious
peace, humanist
peace, religious
wars, humanist
Northern Renaissance artists travelled to ______ for ______ and brought their ideas back home with them
China, trade
Italy, education
Ireland, potatoes
United States, education
This guy popularized the movable type in Germany during the 1400s, making it much easier to print written works
Johannes Gutenberg
Erasmus
Sir Thomas More
Jan van Eyk
The printing press is important because
It allowed books to be printed much faster and cheaper
Books became available to more people
More people learned to read and ideas spread quicker
All of the above
This man created "Christian Humanism", and wrote about a pure Christian life without politics & rituals of the church
Pieter Brughel
Erasmus
Albrecht Durer
William Shakespeare
Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia, which is...
a book that criticizes English government & society
creates an idea of a what a perfect society looks like (even though it doesn’t exist)
Both
Neither
Shakespeare was an English playwright who.. Check all that apply
Wrote many plays that touched on humanist and scientific topics, a big change from topics in the past
Focused on the lives of realistic characters and expressed human nature
Wrote many plays that touched on only religious topics
wrote plays that were extremely popular among people of all social classes
Christine de Pisan wrote about...
gender equality for women
love and heartbreak
religious themes praising God
Roman and Greek classic mythology
Northern Renaissance Artists...
had less focus on beauty and Greek/Roman influence
depicted people more realistically than their Italian counterparts
oil painting was the main style
all of the above
