Renaissance

A movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy.

• Renaissance

• Humanism

• Arts

• Patronage

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Sir Thomas More wrote the work

• Paradise Lost

• Gulliver's Travels

• The Canterbury Tales

• Utopia

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Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton were known for contributing what to the Renaissance?

• New concepts on the universe and science

• New trade routes and goods

• Books printed in local vernaculars

• New concepts on religion

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 The early leader of the Humanist movement, an Italian poet and scholar.  One of the first thinkers to stress the value of classical learning, teachings of Greece and Rome.

• Shakespeare

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Petrarch

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Which of the following people was an artist, scientist, inventor, and philosopher?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• William Shakespeare

• Miguel de Cervantes

• Dante Aligheri

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How did Renaissance writers like Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare influence later writers?

• by writing in Latin

• by creating the first newspapers

• by writing the Bible

• by writing in the common lanugage

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Art and literature of the Renaissance was influenced by ancient

• Anglo-Saxon

• Greek and Latin

• Anglo-Norman

• Old English

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The English humanist and writer who wrote Utopia - a book that was about an ideal society where everyone was equal and free

• Baldassare Castiglione

• William Shakespeare

• Pieter Brueghel

• Thomas More

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Humanism focused on achievements in all of the following except what?

• Art

• Education

• Math

• Literature

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Advantages of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press include all of the following EXCEPT:

• Cheaper book prices

• More books written in vernacular - language of the people

• Increase in church power

• Rapid spread of knowledge and ideas

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