WorksheetsBlack Plague and Renaissance Insights
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Renaissance is the French word for ?
Rebirth
Revolution
Resolution
Reconquista
During the Renaissance, this career became very wealthy
Tailor
Merchant
Writer
Doctor
Which is not a major City State of the Italian peninsula
Milan
Rome
Venice
Istanbul
Approximately, what percentage of Europe was killed by the Black Plague?
30 percent
40 percent
50 percent
60 percent
What type of disease is the Black Plague?
Lymphatic
Aerobic
Pulmonary
Symphatic
Where did the Black Plague originate?
Africa
Asia
America
Northern Europe
Which early civilizations did Renaissance artist take inspiration from? (2 answers)
Anicent Greece
Mesopotamia
Ancient Persia
Ancient Rome
What form of government did the City State, Florence have?
Democracy
Monarchy
Republic
Dictatorship
What line of work was the Medici family known for?
Art
Banking
Shipping
Construction
What is this quote defining: The Renaissance emphasized and celebrated humans and their achievements. This was a new, but powerful belief in the human ability to choose right and wrong and to act on those choices.
Realism
Activism
Humanism
Individualism
What is the quote defining "Renaissance men and women prided themselves on their accurate view of the world. This appears vividly in the artwork of this period."
Realism
Individualism
Humanism
Activism
What is the quote defining " The Renaissance belief that being wise wasn’t enough...one had to exert one’s will actively in the world to make a difference."
Humanism
Realism
Individualism
Activism
What is Secularism?
Being devout for your entire life
Living non-religiously
donating to the church regularly
Being artistic
How did living as a woman living in the Renaissance differ from the Medieval times?
Better educated
They could vote in elections
They were expected to be artistic
They were expected to have stable careers in the government
Who invented the printing press?
Cosimo Medici
Johann Strauss
Johann Gutenberg
Leonardo Da Vinci
Who is considered to be the father of humanism?
Machiavelli
Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Petrarch
