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Renaissance Begins-Middle Ages Ends

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did the Middle Ages begin in Europe ?

a)

When the Roman Empire fell to German tribes

b)

When the French attacked Rome

c)

When the Turkish people ran away

2.

What happened to trade throughout the Middle Ages in Europe?

a)

Europeans traded with the Aztec

b)

Trade almost completely disappeared

c)

African and Asian merchants took over France

3.

What became the most powerful organization during the Middle Ages in Europe?

a)

The Kingdom of Spain

b)

The Kingdom of France

c)

The Roman Catholic Church

4.

Historians considered the Middle Ages to be a period of cultural ________.

a)

positivity

b)

decline

c)

wealth

5.

During the Middle Ages, almost all European people were forced to work on farms in brutal conditions for centuries. What was this called?

a)

Feudalism

b)

Geocentrism

c)

Oligarchy

6.

What effect did the Black Death people have on feudalism?

a)

Peasant farmers killed their king

b)

Peasants fled feudal farms and moved to cities

c)

Peasant farmers joined the army

7.

How did cities in the Renaissance make their money?

a)

They began trading goods and services

b)

They moved to farms

c)

They attacked cities in Russia

8.

What was the benefit of having ancient classical books?

a)

People could study the cavemen

b)

People could learn important ideas from the past

c)

People could learn how to cook food

9.

Why was the Byzantine Empire (Greece) important to the Renaissance?

a)

The Byzantine Greeks fought with the Chinese

b)

The Byzantine Greeks owned horses

c)

The Byzantine Greeks still studied ancient books

10.

Where did many of the teachers in Renaissance Italian schools come from?

a)

China after the wars

b)

Byzantine Empire (Greece) after it was conquered

c)

India after the wars

11.

How did artists affect the way people think in the Renaissance?

a)

People were inspired by artists's creativity

b)

People rebelled against the renaissance artists

c)

People became enemies of the artists

12.

How did people change during the

Renaissance in Europe?

a)

People blended individualism, creativity, learning, and ancient classical ideas.

b)

People blended Christianity with Islam.

c)

People quit reading.

13.

What philosophy was invented during the Renaissance that mixed ancient learning with Christian values?

a)

Geocentricism

b)

Heliocentrism

c)

Humanism

14.

In his book, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli was most

concerned with how ______

a)

kings and nobles used power to get what they wanted

b)

kings and nobles increased the Christian religion

c)

starting a war with China

15.

What was the single most important invention of the Renaissance?

a)

Cathedrals

b)

Printing Press

c)

Internet

16.

The European Renaissance began in what city?

a)

Pompeii, Italy

b)

Milan, Italy

c)

Florence Italy

17.

What was the benefit of having a common vernacular language in the Renaissance?

a)

It made people feel more religious

b)

It let everyone in a region share the same language

c)

It made it easier to learn Latin

18.

What was the name of the system created by Nicolas Copernicus to show the earth revolved around the Sun?

a)

Francocentrism

b)

Geocentrism

c)

Heliocentrism

19.

Galileo was able to prove Copernicus was right with the help of what invention?

a)

eyeglasses

b)

telescope

c)

microscope

20.

List the 3 object that were invented during the Renaissance?

a)

clock

b)

musket

c)

microscope

d)

paper