This trade city on the Italian peninsula played an important role in the beginning of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
100
This technique developed in China was used in conjunction with the printing press and allowed ideas to spread quickly through Europe.
What is papermaking?
100
This person is generally considered the greatest artist of the Renaissance and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
100
The number of words Shakespeare invented in his plays.
What is 2,000?
200
Italian merchants grew wealthy as trade began again on this ancient route.
What is the Silk Road?
200
This term describes a way of thinking that values the achievements of individuals.
What is humanism?
200
Most artwork of the Northern Renaissance depicted this.
What is everyday life?
200
Curiosity about Asia grew in Italy after this merchant published a record of his travels.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
This author wrote about a man who fought windmills thinking that they were dragons.
Who is Miguel de Cervantes?
300
Trade between Asia and Europe was made possible by this people’s rise to power.
Who are the Mongols?
300
Renaissance artists began to use this in their work which added three-dimensionality to their paintings.
What is perspective?
300
This was the first book to be printed in the Renaissance using the newly invented printing press.
What is the Bible?
300
This person revolutionized how information spread when he invented a printing press with moveable type.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
300
Erasmus wrote this book in 1509 which criticized corruption within the church.
What is The Praise of Folly?
400
During the 1400’s, he supported art, education and architecture as the head of the richest family in Florence.
Who is Cosimo de' Medici?
400
Dante wrote this book which includes a description of the seven circles of hell.
What is The Divine Comedy?
400
Shakespeare’s plays can be divided into these three categories.
What are comedies, tragedies and histories?
400
This scholar warned that if one was “ignorant of antiquity” the would live in “darkness and delusion.”
Who is Petrarch?
400
He advised rulers that if they could not be both, it is better to be feared than loved.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
500
This term describes the political structure of most major cities in Renaissance Italy in which the government was controlled by a rich merchant family.
What is a signoria?
500
The geocentric model was discarded after Renaissance astronomers discovered this.
What is that the Earth revolved around the Sun?
500
This French writer, doctor, and a priest mocked the values of the Middle Ages through the actions of his characters Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Who is François Rabelais?
500
When working on a cathedral in France, this architect designed a dome out of two thin layers in order to make it light but strong.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
500
This artist carved his work into a wood block so that he would be able to create multiple prints of the same image.