What does the word Renaissance mean and where did the word originate from?
What is "rebirth" and French?
100
What was the first major center of the Renaissance?
What is Florence?
100
The way European scholars developed to understand the world and when? (idea and time period)
What is humanism and 1300s-1400s?
100
Where was the painter of the Mona Lisa born and who was he?
What is Florence and Leonardo da Vinci?
100
Where did the Renaissance start and when?
What is Italy and 1350?
200
Europeans adapted many _____ and _____ ideas during the renaissance.
What is Greek and Roman?
200
What did not want the powerful Italy and the powerful emperor to control the pope?
What is Catholic Church?
200
A humanist scholar who studied Roman writers and wrote biographies of famous Romans.
What is Francesco Petrarch?
200
What time period was the golden age of Italian Renaissance?
What is 1490 to 1520?
200
What are the names of the mountains that cross the Italian peninsula and the seas that surround them? (four answers)
What is the Apennines and Adriatic Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean Sea?
300
What did Renaissance Europeans become when they were more interested in worldly ideas and not religious ones?
What is secular?
300
Who was a merchant who traveled to China in the 1270s?
What is Marco Polo?
300
The poet who wrote "The Divine Comedy" in vernacular in the early 1300s.
What is Dante Alighieri?
300
How did Michelangelo begin his career?
What is as a sculptor in Florence?
300
Name three of the Italian city-states during the 1500s.
What is Ferrara, Florence, Genoa, Lucca, Mantua, Milan, Modena, Two Sicilies, Papal States, Siena, and Venice?
400
What started to decline as people became more confident about the future?
What is the Black Death?
400
What city was built on many islands?
What is Venice?
400
What was Gutenberg's first European printed book and when? (time period and name of work)
What is the Christian Bible and 1455?
400
In ____, who hired Michelangelo to work at the Vatican? (time period and person)
What is 1508 and Pope Julius II?
400
What is the distance from Florence to Naples? (round to the nearest fifty miles)
What is 250 miles?
500
What type of people in Spain maintained impressive libraries and universities which allowed many philosophical and scientific texts and ideas to survive into the Renaissance?
What is Muslim scholars?
500
What was called the ruler of Venice?
What is duke or doge?
500
Which subjects were humanist scholars curious about? (name four)
What is biology, medicine, astronomy, and mathematics?
500
Who was the most celebrated female artist and was one of the first women to paint____?
What is Artemisia Gentileschi and major historical and religious scenes?
500
What is the smallest country in the world and the place Michelangelo painted his famous ceiling?