10.1 Renaissance-pd 7

From the 1300s to the 1500s, Western Europe enjoyed a golden age in the arts and literature, known as the ______.

• Renaissance
• Enlightenment
• Middle Ages
• Reformation
• Industrial Revolution

The word ______ literally means "rebirth."

• Renaissance
• Revolution
• Renaissance Man
• Enlightenment
• Reformation

The Renaissance was a time of great creativity and change in many areas—economic, political, social, and above all, ______.

• cultural
• technological
• political
• social
• economic

The Renaissance marked the transition between ______ and early modern times.

• medieval
• classical
• feudal
• industrial
• ancient

During the Renaissance, Western Europe witnessed the growth of ______ and trade, which greatly extended people's horizons.

• cities
• monarchies
• armies
• religions
• empires

Most important, the Renaissance changed the way people saw themselves and their ______.

• world
• wealth
• family
• land
• religion

Through contacts in ______ and Sicily, Christian European scholars began to study Muslim philosophy, art, and science.

• Spain
• France
• Italy
• England
• Portugal

Muslim scholars also reintroduced knowledge of ______ civilization to later Europeans.

• Greco-Roman
• Byzantine
• Chinese
• Indian
• Mesopotamian

Spurred by a reawakened interest in the learning of ancient Greece and Rome, creative Renaissance minds set out to ______ their own age.

• transform
• destroy
• ignore
• mimic
• conquer

Renaissance thinkers were eager to explore the richness and variety of ______ experience in the here and now.

• human
• political
• spiritual
• artistic
• medieval