This Florentine author lamented “Living.... I despise what melancholy fate/ has brought us wretches in these evil years.”

Which of the following is the best definition for the Renaissance?

Which of the following Roman writers influenced the writers of the Renaissance?

What new area of study emerged during the Renaissance that was more interested in worldly and human concerns?

The Humanities involve the study of the three liberal arts of

The "sciences" from the Renaissance included?

The study of the humanities as developed by the ancients focused not on the heavens or saints but on human speech or rhetoric, human logic, and the correct use of language. And by language, of course, they mostly meant?

Urban merchants and manufacturers built a brisk business that brought in products and ideas from around Afroeurasia. And some families achieved immense wealth, which allowed them to support the world of Renaissance thinkers and artists in a system called?

What family was possibly the greatest patron of the Italian Renaissance?

What organizations supported Renaissance Art?

Neoclassical statues take their inspiration from classical statues which were white?

Why did banks, city leaders, and individuals sponsor Renaissance art?

How did Renaissance art illustrate the paradoxes of the Renaissance?

Which city was arguably the headquarters of the Renaissance?

Which to Renaissance artist were highlighted in the thought bubble for their focused on human dignity and realistic details?

Across the spectrum of Renaissance art, anatomical accuracy flourished, which you can see in Michelangelo’s sculptures and also in the work of fellow Florentine Leonardo da Vinci-- both artists, incidentally, were able to render the human form in part because

Florence was the center of the Renaissance experiencing economic prosperity and a cultural revival. However was everything perfect during this time?

The council that ran Florences was known as the

Florence was home to what the author, general, and political theorist?

Machiavelli argued that the Florentine Renaissance’s Golden Age ended with

Did the average person living in the Renaissance see a big change in their lives due to the Renaissance?

In general men discounted women’s intellectual worth during the Renaissance?

The Renaissance saw the revival of the Roman idea that the father is the center of every family, and also the center of power?

Was the Renaissance a thing?

What innovation shaped and promoted the ideas of the Renaissance?

Who is often given credit for the innovation of moveable type printing?

Though Gutenberg is often given credit for moveable type printing where did printing techniques first appear?

Why did printing catch on faster in Europe as compared to China?

Before Gutenburg's innovation of moveable type the majority of written works were

Why didn't the majority of Europeans read at the beginning of the Renaissance?

Which of the following are examples of texts printed and read with the innovation of movable type?

What is the name of this Northern Renaissance painting by Pieter Breughel which has scruffy royal villagers acting out ridiculous common wisdom.

This was the idea that all social and political order stemmed from the exercise of the father's authority over the family unit.

In both north and south, some humanists began regularly teaching what? Which involved the study of ancient Latin and Greek.

The instruction of rhetoric may not seem like a big deal but it would eventually contribute to the re-thinking of what certain texts actually said, perhaps most notably the?

This individual became the commanding figure in the Northern Renaissance movement. He is also known as "Prince of the Humanist".

Erasmus contributed to taking humanism along its twisted path from ideas of the study of humans and the active life into?

Which of the following would best apply to Erasmus?

Erasmus was a prolific writer and central figure in the international community of humanists in Europe known as?

This Renaissance thinker shaped what we would now call political science with his "realist" view of politics.

Machiavelli's "realist" view of politics is best summed up by the quote "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." in which of one of his books?

This English Renaissance humanist believed that humanistic analysis could lead to widespread peace and prosperity.

What was St. Thomas More's odd book that envisioned his ideal society?

Another book that imagined an ideal city-state written by Christine de Pizan was?

Renaissance saw the __________ of European culture

The Renaissance occurred after what period in European history?

The Middle Ages were "Dark" or saw limited learning and culture across the planet?

Which of the following best describes Renaissance art?

The scholars who examined, translated, and commented upon Ancient & Arabic writings were called?

Overall were the humanists writers and artists and scholars secretly not religious?

Humanist scholars studied what were called the humanities: literature, philosophy, history also known as the?

According to this episode of Crash Course the Renaissance occurred between

Where did the Renaissance begin?

What reason does Crash Course give for Italy being primed for the Renaissance?

Italy was full of these mini-industrial powerhouses which specialized in industrial products which grew wealth from trade?

This Italian city state was known for its cloth production and was home to the Medici family.

Which Italian city state was the richest of them all due to its trade with Islamic Empires?

The Venetians traded with what economic power in the region allowing them to become the wealthiest of the Italian city-states?

What trade good did Venice make a large portion of its wealth from?

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.

The fall of what city in 1453 to the Ottomans shifted the balance of trade in the Mediterranean?

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?

What arguments did John make that the Renaissance did not happen?