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Origins of the Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance
Science and Education
The Renaissance Beyond Italy
Miscellaneous
100
Where the ancient Latin texts were discovered.
What is monasteries in Europe?
100
The study of history, literature, public speaking, and art, subjects emphasizing the actions and abilities of humans.
What is Humanism?
100
Name one mathematical symbol created by Renaissance scholars.
What is + (positive numbers), - (negative numbers), square root?
100
This invention greatly affected the spread of ideas during the Renaissance.
What is the printing press?
100
He wrote a political book called The Prince.
Who is Machiavelli?
200
The road traveled by Marco Polo.
What is the Silk Road?
200
Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy in this language, instead of Latin.
What is Italian?
200
Engineers and architects found ways to do this.
What is strengthen buildings?
200
The name of the German inventor of the movable type printing press.
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
200
Art of Northern Europe didn't show people looking like Greek gods. Instead humans looked like this.
What is realistic with physical flaws?
300
When Marco Polo returned to Venice, he told stories of his adventures in China which led to this.
What is increased interest and trade with Asia?
300
This is a method of showing a three-dimensional scene on a flat surface so that it looks real.
What is perspective?
300
Renaissance scientists discovered this about the sun and the earth.
What is the earth revolves around the sun?
300
The English playwright who wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
Only men could attend universities, but many noble families valued knowledge and educated their daughters in this way.
What is at home?
400
Name two of the four major Italian trade cities during the Renaissance.
What are Florence, Genoa, Milan, Venice?
400
Renown Italian artist who studied human bones and muscles in order to make his art more realistic.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
400
Cartographers studied the earth and created more accurate these.
What are maps?
400
He wrote Don Quixote in his native language, Spanish.
Who is Miguel de Cervantes.
400
Educated women sometimes became powerful political figures. They married nobles from around Europe and encouraged the spread of this.
What is the Renaissance?
500
The ruling family in Florence during the Renaissance.
Who were the Medicis?
500
Famed Italian artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He was also an amazing sculptor.
Who is Michelangelo?
500
During the Middle Ages education focused on religion. Education during the Renaissance included this subject taught in all schools today.
What is history?
500
This means common language. Many Renaissance writers wrote in the common language of their country.
What is vernacular?