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100
Who is the painter of the Mona Lisa?
What is Da Vinci
100
The Renaissance began in what country?
What is Italy
100
What does the French term Renaissance mean?
What is Rebirth
100
During the Renaissance Italy was divided into?
What is City-States
100
When did the Renaissance begin?
What is 1350
200
Who made up the largest but weakest group of people in Renaissance Society?
What is the peasants
200
This Italian City-State was home to the Church and Pope
What is Rome
200
The Time Period from 1350- to today is known as?
What is The Modern World
200
Who was the creator of the Printing Press?
What is Johannes Gutenberg
200
During the Renaissance people went to school to study what?
What is all subjects
300
What group of people in Renaissance society provided the goods and services to the town?
What is townspeople
300
This Italian City-State was the center of art, literature and culture.
What is Florence
300
The Renaissance marked the begin of
What is Modern Times
300
During which time period did you live to be remembered?
What is the Renaissance
300
What powerful family used the process of exiling their enemies to maintain power.
What is The Medici Family
400
Name two men who were considered "Renaissance Men"
What is Da Vinci and Michelangelo
400
Name the two Italian City-States that were the main port cities during the Renaissance.
What is Venice and Genoa
400
The Medieval Era came to an end in the 1300s prior to the start of the Renaissance because of the
What is the Black Plague
400
Who two ancient cultures influenced the Renaissance?
What is Greek and Roman
500
In his book the Prince, who wrote "It is safer to be feared then loved?"
What is Machiavelli
500
Name two reasons why the Renaissance began in Italy
What is location, trade, and Feudalism not taking hold in Italy like the rest of Northern Europe
500
The idea that humans are valued and that problems can be solved using reason instead of religion is known as?
What is Humanism
500
Describe the major difference between Renaissance Art and Medieval Art
What is Medieval Art was flat, had no dimension, little color, figures were always clothes and often over sized. Always based on religion Renaissance Art used perspective, lots of color, showed people's emotion, clothed or nude, sometimes about religion sometimes not.
500
In your own words provide a thorough definition of the Renaissance.
What is a time of rebirth, people becoming re-interested in the classical writings of the Greeks and Romans, people wanting to learn everything, wanting to explore, and focusing less on heaven and more on life on earth.