The wealthy merchants and bankers in the various city-states became patrons of the arts. What is a patron?
What is a supporter.
100
True or False:
Europe is not a mountainous range.
What is False.
100
Where did Renaissance ideas first take hold?
What is Italy.
100
Who was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist?
Who is Leonardo da Vinci.
100
What famous painting that we all know today did Leonardo da Vinci paint?
Who is The Mona Lisa
200
In 1687, Newton wrote a book explaining that objects are held to the Earth by a force called _____? Whats the name of the force?
What is gravity.
200
What ocean and 3 seas surround Europe?
What is The Mediterranean Sea, The Black Sea, The Caspian Sea, and The Atlantic Ocean.
200
What did Merchants from the city-states bring back from the East?
What is goods and ideas (philosophy, science, geography, and technology)
200
A German who brought the idea of movable type to Europe. He also printed Europe's first book, a 1,200 page Bible. Who is he?
Who is Johannes Gutenberg.
200
What invention did Johannes Gutenberg become the first to use?
What is the movable type.
300
The same force, Newton said,keeps the planet circling the sun. In developing his theory, Isaac Newton followed a _____? What did Newton follow?
What is scientific method.
300
True or False:
Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas
What is True.
300
What strongly appealed to the new leaders of Italy?
What is Greeks' love of beauty and the Romans' practical ideas about government.
300
Who was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet?
Hint: He is perhaps best remembered for his Sistine Chapel frescoes.
Who is Michelangelo Buonarroti.
300
What invention did leonardo create for man (man kind)?
What is a flying machine.
400
About 1450 a German printer named Johannes Gutenberg became the first European to print the _____? What did Johannes print?
What is movable type.
400
Is the Volga River the longest River in Europe?
What is Yes.
400
Why did the city-states compete with one another?
What is to control of trade in The Mediterranean.
400
A polish astronemer and philosopher. Hes against popular belief, he formed the theory that the Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun. Who is he?
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus.
400
What did Galileo create?
What is a telescope.
500
Renaissance painters used _____ to make the the backgrounds of paintings look real. What did the Renaissance painters use?
What is perspective.
500
Do mountains seperate, go through, or border other lands?
What is Yes.
500
Why did wealthy merchants and bankers in the various city-states pay artists?
What is becoming patron or supporter (of the arts).
500
Who was an Italian Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who improved the telescope and used it to prove Nicolaus Copernicus's theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun?