The Renaissance
The meaning of Renaissance.
What is "rebirth"?
Christine de Pisan
Who was the world's first feminist writer?
Arguably the most famous song written about the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is Amazing Grace?
The writer of The Divine Comedy.
Who was Dante?
Africa was called this by the Europeans because so little was known about it.
What is the 'Dark Continent'?
The city and country where the renaissance began.
What it Florence, Italy?
The name of the first book ever printed - hint it was a Bible.
What is the Gutenberg Bible?
The most beautiful woman who has ever lived, according to a Greek epic about war.
Who was Helen of Troy?
The first literary epic ever written.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
In the African origin myth, the creator asks man and woman if they would like to live like the moon or _____.
What is the banana?
The Hundred Years War was fought between these two countries.
What are England and France?
The revival of Greco-Roman culture during the Italian Renaissance.
What is Classical Humanism?
Perhaps the most famous book of all time on power and politics.
What is The Prince?
The Trojan War gave the historical context for The Odyssey and _____.
The Iliad.
African sculptures through which spiritual power passes.
What is the African Mask?
The Hundred Years War was the first time this military technology was used in Europe.
What is gunpowder?
Shown by the Dance of Death woodcuts.
What are class differences?
Maybe the most corrupt pope of all time.
Who is Borgia?
The first novel ever written - hint: it was written in Japan.
What is The Tale of Genji.
The main cultural characteristic that all tribes on the continent of Africa share.
What is the importance of kinship ties/community?
The name for when people can pay the Catholic Church to help their families (and themselves when the time comes) in purgatory.
What are 'indulgences'?
Social Realism
What is close, objective attention to human society and social interaction?
The most famous Shah of the Ottoman Empire.
Who was Suleiman the Magnificent?
Sundiata is the hero of an epic about the history of _____.
What is Mali?
_____ were ancient Africa's poet-historians, who orally transmitted the legends of the past.
Who were 'Griots'?